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Climate & End Times

A Look at Pastoral Burnout

Most American faiths are facing a shortage of pastors due to burnout and the avoidance of ministry among young people. Are there lessons from the Latter-day Saint experience that can help our fellow Christian brothers and sisters?

Persuasion

The Other Religion

The ongoing disaffection of educated church members in North America can’t be understood apart from the recent emergence of an appealing alternative religion.

Church & State

Struggle Doesn’t Make You Special

Those who wrestle are not a separate category of humans. That describes all of us. If so, the key question is not whether we are “willing to wrestle,” but rather, where that wrestle ultimately takes each of us.

Health

Heresies that Happen to be True

When presumptuous certainty stands in the place of a living faith, the stage is set for the shattering of one’s “faith” without typically even recognizing the hyper-fragility of what had been tightly held previously.

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Media & Education

Bites of the Best books: June 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.

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Faith

Approaching God in a Self-Absorbed Way

When an idea becomes popular enough, however bad it may be, it can seep into all sorts of things—even precious, sacred parts of our lives.

Education

The Indoctrination Nobody Talks About

Our worldview shapes everything we see. Yet what shapes our worldview is often hardly noticed—including secular messaging deeply corrosive to faith.

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