Clean Teeth, Pure Hearts: For the Strength of Youth
What does the shift in the “Strength of Youth” standards signify? They motivate adherence by promoting personal values and understanding, just like your dentist!
Tag: agency
Is Our Exercise of Agency Always Intentional?
When we equate agency with being merely choice, we miss out on how human agency manifests in rich ways that are not always conscious and deliberately chosen.
Is Life Ruthlessly Determined or Full of Possibility?
When social scientists overstate the role of surrounding causes and conditions, they fundamentally misrepresent the nature of human experience—while undermining fundamental moral agency, accountability, and possibility itself.
Building Israel: The First Few Millennia Are Always Hardest
An institutional lens is useful for thinking about Israel as the unfolding “Kingdom of God,” since it is a durable, multifaceted social structure that has been important for thousands of years.
The Moral Foundation of the Pro-life Position
While abortion is often reduced to slogans and chants, deep moral reasoning is at the foundation.
A Latter-day Saint Defense of the Unborn
It has become popular for people of faith to seek a middle ground in the abortion debate of being “personally opposed” while according choice to others. This is why I think that position is problematic.
Are There Good Reasons to Opt Out of the BLM Movement?
If you have questions or concerns about the Black Lives Matter movement, does that make you racist—or suggest that you don’t believe “black lives matter?” Of course not. But if Americans were needing a reminder of why not, Jonathan Isaac just provided it.
Bites of the Best Books: August 2020
Five books that contain sentences and paragraphs and pages full of unique ideas that move our minds, touch our hearts, and fill our souls with light.
Remembering the Bible
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.
We Need More Than Sexual Desire to Guide Us
A greater awareness of sexual pleasure is not enough to confront the serious challenges young people face navigating sexuality in America today.
Faith, Facts, and Freedom
We often find ourselves profoundly shaped and grounded by secular liturgies without ever fully considering their logical, moral, or spiritual implications.
