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May 2016

May 07, 2016
(This is a talk I gave at this year's Women's Conference at Brigham Young University.)...

March 2016

March 18, 2016
I didn’t ever expect that in 2016 we would be struggling as a nation with...

February 2016

February 06, 2016
Tone can make a great difference in how effectively we communicate, especially when we are...

December 2015

December 20, 2015
I can remember my mother’s boisterous laugh when I was a little boy. I can...

November 2015

November 13, 2015
I wouldn’t have gone to Stanford, majored in Comparative Literature, or taken my career path...
November 12, 2015
My first experiences with criticism, compassion and charity were in family life at home. As...
November 12, 2015
I was invited by the Faculty Center to share my journey as a scholar of faith....

October 2015

October 04, 2015
It is a clear and central tenet of Mormon belief that we are led by...

August 2015

August 30, 2015
(Adapted from comments I shared recently with the College of Humanities at BYU) Grading, I am...
August 13, 2015
There is a paradox at the heart of the practice of religion. Religion is designed...

July 2015

July 26, 2015
The LDS Church has recently rolled out new training for members about the central importance...

June 2015

June 16, 2015
The Halki Summit ended after a provocative and fruitful discussion of the role the arts...
June 10, 2015
I have a few things to report that deserve commentary from the Halki Summit II...
June 08, 2015
I have arrived this week for the Halki Summit II, a meeting co-sponsored by the...

March 2015

March 22, 2015
There are those who are infected by nostalgia and yearn for a nineteenth-century Mormonism because,...

January 2015

January 11, 2015
Two friends recently independently mentioned to me that it seems that at every turn, their...

December 2014

December 14, 2014
We live in the age of polemics. Choices are presented to us as mutually exclusive,...
December 05, 2014
Sam Brown has written an important and beautiful book. Every Mormon serious about deepening their...

November 2014

November 12, 2014
I just returned from a marvelous gathering at the Yale Divinity School where scholars and...

October 2014

October 26, 2014
When I was in my last year of graduate school at Berkeley, I was given...
October 12, 2014
It is fair to ask why a religious conviction needs to be expressed and shared...

September 2014

September 28, 2014
To continue from my previous post, I want to focus on three areas of my...
September 23, 2014
This is an attempt (in four installments) to explain a few things about what might...
September 14, 2014
I have had a rare and unusual opportunity this week to spend a few days...

August 2014

August 29, 2014
Let me say outright that I am not interested in this post in trying to...
August 21, 2014
I recently gave a presentation at Education Week at BYU on this topic. I offer...
August 02, 2014
I have learned by happy and sometimes sad experience that the mind is a changeable...

July 2014

July 14, 2014
37 years ago I spent one month at the Bennion Boys Ranch in Victor, Idaho....

June 2014

June 22, 2014
Twenty-five years ago yesterday, I married my wife, Amy. When we were dating, we did...
June 12, 2014
Consider this title in both of its syntactical meanings. What does it mean to love...
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