Introducing and launching a new series of articles based on the American Families of Faith project involving scholars at BYU and beyond. The project aims to deepen understanding of diverse religious families across the United States.
Dehumanization is wrong. Of course, we all know that … UNLESS we’re talking about Those People who believe truly awful things, right?
The principles of liberty, equality and honoring our common humanity are inconsistent with race prejudice. Those remain the best weapon ever formed against it, today as in 1865.
COVERING THE COVERAGE
There is a growing hunger among many white people to understand the anger and despair that African Americans face. Whatever misunderstandings we may have, more empathy for the experiences and history of others can’t hurt. Indeed, it might help in the most important...
A student recently confided in me that in light of her growing fears in the face of the current global pandemic it was getting harder and harder for her to concentrate on her academic workload. She assured me that it was not so much the amount of reading and writing...
Some early translators of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America describe this country as an experiment. The principles and foundations were so radically new that this nation was not merely a new political entity, but an experiment in whether the founding ideals...
