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Survey analysis shows Latter-day Saints are generally supportive of the Trump policy agenda, but not as much as Evangelicals

Survey analysis shows Latter-day Saints are generally supportive of the Trump policy agenda, but not as much as Evangelicals

by Benjamin Knoll | Dec 29, 2019 | Featured, Politics | 0 comments

Over at the Religion in Public blog (at which I am a contributor), political scientist Dr. Paul Djupe recently shared some analysis of the relationship between religion and attitudes toward President Trump’s political policies in the United States. Readers of Rational...
Contemplative Activism: an approach to changing the world in a compassionate way

Contemplative Activism: an approach to changing the world in a compassionate way

by Benjamin Knoll | Dec 29, 2018 | Featured | 1 comment

I have often struggled with an apparent paradox. On one hand, I am persuaded that citizenship, whether in political, religious, or social communities, carries with it a moral obligation to participate and to try to improve the conditions under which people live and...
Could Mormon voters have prevented Donald Trump in 2016? Probably not.

Could Mormon voters have prevented Donald Trump in 2016? Probably not.

by Benjamin Knoll | Nov 7, 2017 | Featured, Politics | 2 comments

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...
Those People

Those People

by Jeremy Timothy | Jul 5, 2017 | Activism, Compassion, Disability, Featured, Goodness, History, Mental Health, Politics, Racism | 3 comments

Before summer’s out, we’ll repeal/replace Obamacare w/ system based on personal responsibility, free-market competition & state-based reform pic.twitter.com/JzCyxX9kJb This tweet has recently come to my attention from our vice-president as part of the dialogue on...
An Unlikely Invocation of Wisdom

An Unlikely Invocation of Wisdom

by Michelle Wiener | Jan 25, 2017 | Activism, Agency, faith crisis, Featured, Fellowship, Feminism, Heavenly Mother, Mother in Heaven, Politics, prayer, The Holy ghost | 2 comments

This week has been a topsy-turvy week for many of us. A surreal week. Whether or not we are Trump or Hillary supporters, feminists or non-feminists, pro-choice or pro-life really should not matter when we consider that 2016 has been a strange year. We all, no matter...
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