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How Presumptuous Certainty Stokes Radicalization

When we free our beliefs from the constraints and obligations of truth, we lose our greatest defense against toxic polarization.

Discerning True from False Conspiracy

Public Square Staff

Conspiracy theories can be dangerous and outright false. But they can also sometimes be true (opioid epidemic). Rather than write them all off, how can we better discern truth from error?

Remembering the Bible

Steven Smith

If we write off the Bible as irrelevant, we lose its proposals on meaning, purpose and self-worth. Other widely embraced answers, however, are despairing.

God, Caesar, and the Coronavirus

Blake Hills

Our Return to the Persecution of the pre-Christian World

Carl Herstein

Is Latter-day Saint Theology Responsible for LGBT+ Suicides?

My truth? Your truth? No truth?

Trauma in The Family of Abraham

Living Well with Depression—My Personal Journey

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Five Steps Towards More Confidence Against Coronavirus

by Benjamin Satterfield

The fear around this COVID-19 pandemic is both striking and understandable. Speaking from our expertise and experience in infectious disease and geriatric medicine, we share five recommendations that might be encouraging to those who find themselves terrified with the...

Bites of the Best Books: March 2020

by Samuel B. Hislop

Every life needs a healthy dose of not just good books but the “best books.” Those last two words are familiar to many Latter-day Saints. Joseph Smith taught the early Saints to seek wisdom out of the “best books” to increase faith in a God whose glory is...

Tolerance for Me But Not for Thee

by Gregory L. Smith

While tolerance is an important ethic in our modern political discourse, no one really believes it has universal application ("everything should be tolerated"). Most people acknowledge some sensible limits need to be in place. If that's true, what should those...