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Five figures express distinct reactions toward one slice of pizza, illustrating all five conflict management styles.

Why Winning Doesn’t Make You Right: Five Conflict Styles

Skyline4 months ago09 mins

Which conflict style fits each dispute? All five are needed; choose wisely to prevent resentment.

A father protects his child in adversity, reflecting the resilience and sacrificial love of fatherhood.

Preside, Provide, Protect, and Partner: Fathers and the Family Proclamation

Loren Marks11 months ago3 months ago016 mins

What defines fatherhood? Fathers preside with love, provide for needs, and protect their families faithfully.

A sky with sun and moon symbolizes how conflict management allows opposing forces to coexist in harmony.

Conflict is Natural: How We Mistake Discomfort for Destruction

Skyline12 months ago09 mins

What is conflict? Conflict is not the same as contention. It is a neutral force that, when handled wisely, fosters growth and peace.

Children playing in an overgrown park surrounded by empty buildings illustrates the societal impacts of population decline.

A Tale of Two Ecologies: What Environmentalism Overlooks

Jeff Bennion1 year ago013 mins

What is the real ecological crisis? Family and fertility decline threaten human and societal sustainability.

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Empathy or Echo Chambers?

Dan Ellsworth2 years ago2 years ago015 mins

Misguided empathy can harm. True understanding demands not just listening but deep knowledge and open hearts.

A crowned professor in a modern classroom, illustrating the conflation of power and knowledge in the crisis in higher education.

How Power Masquerades as Education

Edwin E. Gantt2 years ago015 mins

What truly defines education? Is it merely a tool for power, or is there a deeper pursuit of truth, wisdom, beauty, and virtue? Academia faces an ongoing battle for its soul.

Graduates at a solemn ceremony ponder their futures, highlighting the existential uncertainty of the Higher Education Crisis.

The Crisis of Purpose in Academia

Edwin E. Gantt2 years ago2 years ago06 mins

Higher education faces a crisis of purpose, with its moral and intellectual foundations eroded by modernism and postmodernism.

Parley P. Pratt studies the theology of truth and love in front of an American backdrop

Truth and Love in Harmony: The Parley Pratt Theology

Jacob Christensen2 years ago07 mins

Early Americans saw intelligence and love in tension. But Latter-day Saint doctrine understood God’s nature differently.

If You Want to Love Yourself, Love the Truth

Daniel Frost5 years ago4 years ago08 mins

As long as we love ourselves more, so the popular precept goes, our happiness will also grow. Is that really true? Not if our self-love disregards the reality of truth and our need to love that most.

Jewish tradition of Sukkot brought to the isolated

Four Corners5 years ago5 years ago00 min

The Wisdom of the Aged

Public Square Staff5 years ago3 years ago07 mins

Increasingly, older and senior members of our communities are seen as backward and not worth considering. That’s a mistake. General Conference will provide an opportunity to listen to the hard-earned wisdom of age that we should seek for.