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Faith

Christmas Joy & Mourning

At Christmas we often focus on the joy of Christ, but just as important is the way that Christ embraces our sorrows and heals our wounds.

Media & Education

For Mature Audiences Only: Relabeling Crass Media

When movies include explicit scenes of violence, sexual activity, drug and alcohol use, or rampant profanity, it’s become common to label them as “adult” or “mature.” Why?

Legal

Don’t Flip Your Whig

We can fully embrace our moral progress without rejecting the influential men and women of the past who failed to live up to the standards of today.

books
Media & Education

Bites of the Best Books: November 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.

Dialogue

America’s Impending Acid Test

As condemnations of “systemic racism” expand across America, far less attention is being given to the philosophical roots of the accusation—roots which make clear how different from normal talk of “racism” this is today.

Health

Trauma in The Family of Abraham

The story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac teaches obedience, but believers can benefit from wrestling with this text, as Jews have done for centuries.

Media & Education

The Gospel of Facebook

Our culture claims that we’re un-Christlike if we teach moral standards. God commands us to love; does he command us to lay low?

Faith

Building Zion by Choosing Righteous Leaders

Many across different belief systems have conceptions of a more enlightened society to come. For Latter-day Saints, that “Zion” on the horizon centers on an imperative of inspired, righteous leadership – both then and now.

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