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Dialogue

Why Bother Engaging with Stupid, Duped, or Evil People?

This is the sixth in a series by Arthur Peña, Charles Randall Paul, and Jacob Hess called “Inevitable Influencers: Why (deep down) we all want—and need—to persuade each other of what we see as good, beautiful, and true.” Previous pieces include “Why Persuasion Should be a Sweet (Not a Dirty) Word”; “The Threat of Persuasion,” and “My Truth? Your Truth? No Truth?”; “The Virtues of Strong Disagreement,” and “Our Judgment Against Judgment.”

Charles Randall Paul December 18, 2020
Church & State

What Led Me to Radical Orthodoxy

A new “manifesto” on radical orthodoxy has been widely discussed. Where did its ideas originate? One author explains.

Nathaniel Givens December 11, 2020
Church & State

Latter-day Saint Radical Orthodoxy: a Manifesto

Many young believers feel the only options they have are to be rigidly dogmatic to the point of being fundamentalist or to reject the Church’s teachings in favor of progressive political doctrines and intellectualism. This statement encourages intellectual engagement with the Church of Jesus Christ in ways that are faithful and flexible instead of either rigidly dogmatic or heretical and doubting.

Nathaniel Givens November 24, 2020
Dialogue

Our Judgement Against Judgement

Being judged for being “judgmental” has become so commonplace we hardly think twice about it. But sound judgment says we should.

Jacob Z. Hess September 10, 2020
Education

Do You ‘Believe in Science’…or Not?

Is science an oracle of truth—revealing what we should do and how we should think—or is it an ongoing, contested deliberation about that truth?

Jacob Z. Hess August 28, 2020
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.

Nathaniel Givens July 21, 2020
America

In Defense of America

America was founded on the principle that “all men are created equal”. Despite calls to isolate or secede, this is worth saving.

C.D. Cunningham July 3, 2020
books
Media & Education

Bites of the Best Books: July 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.

Samuel B. Hislop July 2, 2020
Dialogue

How Collective Healing Happens

In all the debate around appropriate accountability, reform, and policy change, far less attention has gone to how to find healing together as a people.

Public Square Staff June 18, 2020

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