Discernment a Gift and a Skill (pp. 120-121)
Because we live in a world awash with rumors, myths, hoaxes, misinformation, and lies, we must learn to investigate what we encounter. We must learn to discern, as President Russell M. Nelson taught, “between schemes that are flashy and fleeting and those refinements that are […]
From “Introduction. Our Day of Rumors” (pp. 1-2)
The rumors shot through the crowd like lightning. Murder! Enemy infiltration! The tyrant got what he deserved! Each newcomer gaped in horror at the motionless bodies scattered on the ground—the king, the queen, their servants, and also . . . the foe. Nasty outsider! Evil […]
We can watch for warning signs and work together to develop habits of good thinking and conversation.
A history degree is a wonderful way to begin a career and a terrible place to end it.
At a campaign rally in Arizona, Utah Senator Mike Lee tried to compare Donald Trump to the book of Mormon figure Captain Moroni:
Senator Mike Lee campaigning in Arizona, hard selling Trump to religious groups from Evangelical to Mormons. Comparing Trump to Captain Moroni from the Book Of Mormon. Saying @potus does […]
The cover of Contingent Citizens features a photograph of the Salt Lake Temple draped in an enormous American flag. We thought this juxtaposition—church and state, piety and patriotism, sacred and secular—captured the complex and contradictory ways that Latter-day Saints have been perceived in American politics. In the book we tease out the […]