The Problem I was catching up with a good friend of mine the other day. He’s not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but our families both have roots in a farming community in Northern California. We attended a small school together from kindergarten to eighth grade. As such, we…
On April 11 2023, Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints delivered a devotional at BYU titled Our Own Best Story. The beginning of the devotional began with an exploration of the widely popularized AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Elder Gong then began discussing…
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…
Is consent a firm foundation to determine if “whatever it is they’re doing” is what BYU students should be doing? CONSENT INITIATIVES This past week, BYU’s Daily Universe published an article in cooperation with byusextalks and RaYnbow Collective on recent pushes for education on consent. As a reminder, RaYnbow Collective hosted the infamous drag show…
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…
Recently, the United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been in the news regarding a case they have against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Subsequently, critics accuse the Church of intentionally hiding billions of dollars in investments. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns an investment management company called…
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…