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If More Treatment Is the Answer, Why Haven’t the Numbers Gone Down?

As suicide numbers increase, we continue to hear suggestions that “undertreatment” is the main problem. After two decades of rising treatment rates, could it be time to reassess?

The $100 Billion ‘Mormon Church’ story: A Contextual Analysis

Aaron Miller

Major headlines this week left a vivid impression in the public mind of a major scandal uncovered in the Church of Jesus Christ. A closer, more careful look suggests otherwise.

That Big Religious Freedom Case Is Not What You Think

Christopher D. Cunningham

The “biggest religious freedom case” of the Supreme Court’s current term may have more to do with the complicated relationship between courts, regulatory agencies, and state legislators than religion.

That Big Religious Freedom Case Is Not What You Think

Is Sexuality Who We Are or What We Do?

Edwin E. Gantt

Why Bad Things Must Happen to Good People

Nathaniel Givens

The $100 Billion ‘Mormon Church’ story: A Contextual Analysis

Searching for God (Instead of Ideas about Him)

Asking to Not Say “Mormon” is as American as Pilgrims

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Those Ultimate Christian Fighting Words

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Is he going to hell? Will I make it to heaven? Threats of hell, alongside tremulous aspirations for heaven, have been so common throughout religious history that many people in contemporary America can hardly conceive of a Christianity without angst as a dominant...

EDITORIALS

Knowing Less Than We Think

by Walker Wright

In a 2012 Saturday Night Live sketch, a political ad parody “paid for” by “Low-Information Voters of America” showcased a handful of America’s “undecided voters” asking questions like, “What are the names of the two people running?” or “Who is the president right now?...

The Beginning and End of Slavery in America

by Michael K. Erickson

This past August marked the 400th anniversary since the first African slaves were sold in the Jamestown Colony, the beginning of a slave economy that would eventually spread throughout the southern United States. Remarkably, that Virginia peninsula where American...

How Social Media has Changed the Religious Experience

by Christopher D. Cunningham

Jesse (name changed) a college freshman, was deep down a YouTube tangent early in the morning when she clicked on a video with Stacey Harkey from the sketch comedy group Studio C, talking about whether or not Latter-day Saints (formerly called “Mormons”) were...