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?
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What is the Christian Core of a Classical Christian Liberal Arts Education?
If the purpose of education is acquiring truth, then education must take seriously the question of what truth is.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The 1965 Salt Lake City Race Riot that Never Happened
Provocative rhetoric has been sown in America’s discourse with an intentional aim to inflame tensions. Something similar took place in Utah in 1965.
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.
10 Lessons on the Beauty of Interfaith Harmony
Latter-day Saints see their faith as a receptacle of truth not just a dispenser of it, which explains the ease in finding so much that is “virtuous” and “lovely” in many traditions.
How Presumptuous Certainty Stokes Radicalization
When we free our beliefs from the constraints and obligations of truth, we lose our greatest defense against toxic polarization.
Discerning True from False Conspiracy
Conspiracy theories can be dangerous and outright false. But they can also sometimes be true (opioid epidemic). Rather than write them all off, how can we better discern truth from error?