Dialogue
A Rhetoric of Racial Despair
Anger and grief can inspire social progress. But they can also turn into rage and despair depending on the way we talk and think about what’s happening.
Jacob Z. Hess
June 19, 2020
Anger and grief can inspire social progress. But they can also turn into rage and despair depending on the way we talk and think about what’s happening.
In all the debate around appropriate accountability, reform, and policy change, far less attention has gone to how to find healing together as a people.
The Supreme Court’s recent decision on LGBT+ employment protections combined with existing religious rights could eventually lead to a “fairness for all.”
Provocative rhetoric has been sown in America’s discourse with an intentional aim to inflame tensions. Something similar took place in Utah in 1965.
The Supreme Court applies Title VII to LGBT+ employees. But the case opens up many questions about religious freedom for employers.
Should religious schools be at a funding disadvantage compared to their secular counterparts? The discriminatory Blaine amendment says so.
1st Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction provides valuable scriptural insights by focusing narrowly on the intention of it’s author, Nephi.
In today’s fractured conversations about race in America, scripture is often seen with the same suspicion as everything else. Let’s take a second look.
