Religious Freedom

Whose Religious Freedom?

Critics overlook decades of legal advocacy and global dialogue supporting believers far beyond the Church’s own membership.

A family practices religious giving together around a household budget.
American Families of Faith

What Faithful Giving Builds

Families of faith describe religious giving as a gift that can foster meaning, mutual support, and marital unity.

Odysseus sails home from war in Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey", standing aboard a Greek ship at sunset.
Media & Education

Odysseus and the Culture Warriors

A blockbuster’s success hints that audiences may be tiring of culture-war demands on art and ordinary life.

A refugee resettlement family arriving in Utah through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
Politics & Law

A Refuge for Modern Pioneers

The Perpetual Emigrating Fund offers a moral model for sustaining America’s current refugee admissions program.

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Education

What Faith Can Give Public Schools

Faith-based partnerships can help public schools expand opportunity without advancing or excluding religion.

An elderly woman and her daughter in a hospital room evoke the human stakes of MAID in Canada.
Health

What MAID Has Made Normal

Canada’s MAID regime has moved from exceptional remedy to cultural norm, testing the nation’s duty to vulnerable lives.

Religious Freedom

Religious Freedom Includes Fairness For All

From Proposition 8 to the Respect for Marriage Act, the Church’s approach to religious freedom seeks to preserve both moral choice and its fundamental beliefs.

A family joyfully observes the moon through a backyard telescope, connecting faith, childhood wonder, and space exploration.
Bulletin

Zion’s Gaze: Upward and Outward

Latter-day Saint theology embraces cosmic expansiveness and provides a posture toward curiosity and discovery.

Two neighbors plant a young tree together in a vacant lot, illustrating faithful, real-world stewardship beyond christian social media.
Faith

Stewardship Beyond the Screen

Disciples must choose their ground for making real differences, focusing on building rather than constant online denunciation.

A grandmother helping a child prepare for school in a kinship care home within the foster care system.
Parenting

Foster Care and Community Failure

Foster care protects children after crisis, but stronger relationships can help families before separation becomes necessary.

Children’s rights in no-fault divorce represented by a child waiting alone outside a family courtroom.
Family Matters

Children Come First

Divorce law protects parental choice but rarely asks what process is due to the children whose families it restructures.

An older couple sits quietly in a farmhouse kitchen, reflecting the hope of further love and intimacy in eternal families.
Proclamation On the Family

In Awe of Eternal Families

The doctrine of eternal families deserves more than familiarity; it should awaken gratitude, reverence, and hope.