When we free our beliefs from the constraints and obligations of truth, we lose our greatest defense against toxic polarization.
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?
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.
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COVERING THE COVERAGE
What can be harder to talk about than even religion and politics? Health. At least when it comes to religion and politics, we’re all well aware of serious disagreements at hand. But in many matters of health, at least the public perception is that most...
Americans want to be good citizens—even global citizens. And Latter-day Saints believe in “obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law” wherever they live. Even if they have questions about it. So, we’ve all done our best to follow the guidelines in recent...
It would be nice if we lived in a world where people decided what to believe based on their honest assessment of what was most likely true. Sadly, we do not live in that world. People pick and choose their beliefs for a wide variety of reasons, and almost none of them...
