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

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

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

I can remember my mother’s boisterous laugh when I was a little boy. I can...

I wouldn’t have gone to Stanford, majored in Comparative Literature, or taken my career path...

My first experiences with criticism, compassion and charity were in family life at home. As...

I was invited by the Faculty Center to share my journey as a scholar of faith....

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

(Adapted from comments I shared recently with the College of Humanities at BYU) Grading, I am...

There is a paradox at the heart of the practice of religion. Religion is designed...

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

The Halki Summit ended after a provocative and fruitful discussion of the role the arts...

I have a few things to report that deserve commentary from the Halki Summit II...

I have arrived this week for the Halki Summit II, a meeting co-sponsored by the...

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

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

We live in the age of polemics. Choices are presented to us as mutually exclusive,...

Sam Brown has written an important and beautiful book. Every Mormon serious about deepening their...

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

When I was in my last year of graduate school at Berkeley, I was given...

It is fair to ask why a religious conviction needs to be expressed and shared...

To continue from my previous post, I want to focus on three areas of my...

This is an attempt (in four installments) to explain a few things about what might...

I have had a rare and unusual opportunity this week to spend a few days...

Let me say outright that I am not interested in this post in trying to...

I recently gave a presentation at Education Week at BYU on this topic. I offer...

I have learned by happy and sometimes sad experience that the mind is a changeable...

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

Twenty-five years ago yesterday, I married my wife, Amy. When we were dating, we did...

Consider this title in both of its syntactical meanings. What does it mean to love...