BYU Cancels Debate Event on Abortion: Beams before Motes

SEE ADDTIONAL UPDATE HERE: Complaints of ‘disrespectful’ Speaker Used to Cancel Abortion Debate Appear Unfounded The recent petition to ban Elder Holland from speaking at Southern Utah University’s Commencement ceremony has once again sparked a debate over cancel culture throughout the Wasatch front. This attempt to cancel Elder Holland perhaps carries an extra dose of…

Study: Decrease in Religious Practice Leads to Increase in Deaths of Despair

In January 2023, the National Bureau of Economic Research published a study titled “Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion.” The study looked at the association between decline in religious practice and deaths from drug poisoning, suicide, alcoholic liver failure, and other such deaths.  Importantly, the researchers did not…

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Political Reaction to President Corbitt’s Speech on Activism in the Church

President Ahmad Corbitt, the first counselor in the Young Men General Presidency, recently delivered a message to Latter-Day Saint chaplains about activism “towards or against” the Church. He remarked that activism has brought about positive change throughout the world, saying, “I am a personal witness of significant changes of many kinds brought about by people…