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When Peacemaking Meets Tragedy: General Conference ‘25
The Public Square community looks to the themes they learned from the October 2025 General Conference
Public Square Staff
October 6, 2025
The Public Square community looks to the themes they learned from the October 2025 General Conference
What does righteous rebuke look like today? Elder Holland, as an example, battles ideas, not people, and always points to Christ.
Was President Holland’s BYU talk a message of love or exclusion? A closer look shows a narrative of faith and compassion.
The provided podcasts cover a range of topics, including LGBTQ+ issues and the church, revisiting Elder Holland’s talk, pop culture discussions, radical civility, family dynamics, and a Gospel-centered approach to gender dysphoria.
Explore how the news of Elder Holland’s health struggles inspires compassion and unity as a loving community rally together to offer unwavering support.
Can love and compassion coexist with conflicting worldviews? The controversies surrounding Jeffrey Holland’s speech at Southern Utah University and the legal battle at Franciscan Health offer a thought-provoking exploration of this important issue.
A retrospective on Elder Jeffrey Holland’s BYU staff talk and what the fierce response by some suggests about this distinctive school’s place in the ailing American university system.
I chat with Greg Matsen of the Cwic show about Elder Holland’s BYU talk. We talk politics, CRT, religion and teaching policy. Fun to agree-and disagree-with him!
In Faith Matters’ podcast, “Elusive Unity at BYU,” Church teachings about sexuality and the family are characterized as in profound conflict with the “real experiences” of Latter-day Saints identifying as LGBT+. In what ways might unexamined assumptions about identity be contributing to this same divide?
It seems at times that American discourse is so engrossed in the intersectional categories of people (e.g., “that gay BYU student”), that we hardly see the unique person underneath the label anymore.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s remarks at BYU revealed an already-existing conflict over how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its critics conceive of identity. As prophets affirm repeatedly, our true identity existed long before any of our present experiences, and is remembered, more than discovered.
A BYU-Idaho professor writes to his students about the role of belonging, safe-spaces, and pride imagery.