by Benjamin Knoll | Jan 21, 2018 | Featured |
On January 16 the new LDS First Presidency fielded questions from the press. In response to Peggy Fletcher Stack’s question about diversity in the highest levels of church leadership, including women in church leadership, the new First Presidency responded: President...
by Benjamin Knoll | Jan 2, 2018 | Featured |
All human communities have behavioral or attitudinal norms that serve to establish social boundaries between those in the “in-group” and those in the “out-group.” One way to analyze these “cultural markers” is to ask members of the group how they would react if a...
by Benjamin Knoll | Dec 5, 2017 | Atonement, Book Reviews, Empowerment, Featured, Goodness, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Potential, Religion, Savior |
At a recent Sacrament Meeting I heard the following message: “The world tells women to be independent, confident, and educated, but we know women are instead supposed to be chaste, virtuous, and modest.” Sunday School then featured these highlights: “We are constantly...
by Benjamin Knoll | Nov 7, 2017 | Featured, Politics |
This week is the one-year anniversary of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Many of us had hoped that Election Day would end the months of campaign drama, thinking that our lives would get back to normal. As we know, though, American voters (as mediated by the...
by Benjamin Knoll | Oct 3, 2017 | Featured, Politics |
I recently had the opportunity to attend the 5th annual Mexican Political Science Association conference where Dr. Gary King presented his recent research on what he calls “information control” by the Chinese government. Dr. King is one of the country’s foremost...
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