Media & Education

What is Wrong With the Housing Market?

As house prices rise across the country, many are left wondering why. Which of these factors are temporary from the pandemic, and which are long-term?

Faith

If You Want to Love Yourself, Love the Truth

As long as we love ourselves more, so the popular precept goes, our happiness will also grow. Is that really true? Not if our self-love disregards the reality of truth and our need to love that most.

American Families of Faith

The Inner Logic of Religion(s)

Can a religion be adequately understood by referencing simply its psychological or sociological manifestations? Not according to religious people, it can’t.

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America

What Does it Mean to Love America?

Does loving America mean loving the people living there? I think so. And from my own experience, it’s not just soldiers we can thank for patriotic service to our nation.

Dialogue

How Critical Race Theory Helps us Follow Jesus

Amidst all the push-back on CRT of late, I fear disciples of Christ may be missing some of the ways this framework for analysis might help us follow the Savior in healing the world.

Dialogue

A Latina’s Response to ‘Honest Questions about CRT’

The message of the gospel of Christ makes some people uncomfortable and angry. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Maybe we should show a little more humble openness to what CRT can offer our understanding of the world?

Dialogue

Yes, We Really Do Need to Talk About Race

It’s not just folks on the political left who we’d love to go deeper in exploring meaningful questions. These are some of our questions for brothers and sisters on the political right as well.

Media & Education

New Insights on Gospel Restoration: Thoughts on Mason & Givens’ Texts

The restitution of the gospel fullness through Joseph Smith has made waves for nearly 200 years now. Two important new texts spark a meaningful conversation about the scope and meaning of this restoration – and the nature of the God who ushered it in.

Faith

A Restoration of ALL Things?

The message of a “restitution of all things” shared by the Church of Jesus Christ is exciting on many levels. Is it possible that this restoration is even more expansive than many of us have realized?

Racial Healing

Juneteenth and the Liberal Tradition

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.

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Dialogue

We Are Hypatia

Elaborating the rationale for agreeing to a group pseudonym to be used in select articles in the days ahead.