The Importance of Discerning Authorized Messengers
In an age of flash-flood information, discernment best comes through authorized messengers: living prophets, scriptures, and the Holy Ghost.
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A Kingdom Not of This World: Beyond Red and Blue
Policy fights keep turning neighbors into enemies. What does the politics of love demand from both sides of the political divide?
The Conspiracy That Wasn’t
The Epstein files provide a stress test for decades of anti-Mormon conspiracy theories. What can believers and critics alike take from the lack of damning church revelations?
The Most Corrosive Claim in American Politics: “Everything You’ve Been Told Is Wrong”
Does anti-elite media sharpen or shatter judgment? Extremist talking heads destabilize reality and easing moral inversion.
The Hidden Cost of Normalizing Doubt
What makes faith so difficult today? Cultural pathologizing has distorted doubt and weakened spiritual growth.
The Limits of Empathy: Why Feeling Isn’t Always Knowing
Is empathy always good? Without scrutiny, it feeds bias, but with reality testing, it grounds compassion in truth.
How We Lost Faith in the Hero’s Beginning
Why did superhero films abandon origin stories? Because we don’t want to become heroes. We want them to just show up.
Navigating Your Faith Journey: Use Your Hands
What does it take to grow in faith? Asking, studying, acting, and choosing guide believers to truth and peace.
Navigating Your Faith Journey: Use Your Head
Is reason at odds with faith? Thoughtful tools from psychology can help steer you in the right direction on your faith journey.
An Inconvenient Truth and The Rise of Latter-day Niceness
When does discipleship lose conviction, courage, and clarity? When “niceness” is modeled for comfort and approval.
How Conspiracy Thinking Is Prepping the World for the Antichrist
Can conspiracy thinking pave the way for the Antichrist? Yes—it distorts truth, fuels delusion, and prepares minds to worship lies as wonders.
From Babel to the UN: How Semantic Confusion Undermines Peace—and the Radical Power of Clarity
Why can’t we understand each other? Language divides when meaning drifts, and peace begins with clarity.