Analysis and Comment
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Should Gay men be priests?
A new church-life study reopens whether gay men with same-sex attraction can enter seminaries and become priests.
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Gen Z Mormon women leaving way faster than expected
New survey data shows Gen Z women raised Mormon are staying at far lower rates than any prior generation, driven by politics, purity culture and power.
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Reconciliation without truth is enforced forgetting
Real reconciliation requires truth-telling, repentance and accountability, not pressure on victims to move on quickly.
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Faith is back in Democratic politics
After decades of watching Democrats dodge the God question, perhaps, finally, they may have an answer.
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Pope Leo doesn’t mess around
Vatican officials pushed back hard after Trump’s ambassador tried to frame the pope’s political criticism as merely secular.
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What would victory over Iran actually involve?
Ancient warnings about unchecked power and justice offer a sobering lens on today’s push for regime change.
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The vacuum where leaders should be
Politics and institutions are increasingly governed by risk management, not leadership. But real leadership requires imagination, courage and the willingness to challenge false stories. Of course, there are Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollahs, who run their worlds according to their own storyline. But none in any meaningful way serve democracies. But are…
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The poor don’t debate climate change — they survive it
The poor do not discuss climate change in conference halls. They encounter it at noon, under a tin roof, on a construction site, beside a dry hand pump, in a field where the soil has turned to powder, or in a flooded lane where schoolbooks float like dead birds. For them, climate change is not…
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The whole stadium feels it first
A room that listens this way learns things about itself that a closed room never could have learned.
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Bastille Day values: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
The revolutionary triad may express convictions Christianity had long held about freedom, fairness and human kinship
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