Last Saturday, during the Utah Republican Party’s Organizing Convention, freshman U.S. Representative Burgess Owens announced to the attending delegates that “Utah is the least racist state in the least racist country in the world.”
If only this was true.
Unfortunately, Mr. Owens, racism still runs rampant in the words and…
For many who leave The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-say Saints, the decision to exit is not an easy one. It’s typically an intimate, difficult, and personal choice.
One reason it can be so hard to cut ties with the Church is because when people lose their Latter-day Saint…
On Friday, March 12, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a statement updating the public on the ongoing and future-scheduled renovations of the Manti and Salt Lake temples. …
On the night of November 2, 1924, Dr. James Naismith sat at the head of his family’s fourth-generation oak wood dining table, eating a humble soup-and-bread dinner prepared by his wife and five little children. The season’s first snow had hit their tiny Ontario town the day before, and the…
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Over the years, Church leaders have called abortion many things: ugly, debasing, a serious sin, insidious, grievous, moral pollution, seditious, a plague, an aggressive act, repugnant, and a worldly philosophy.
In a direct response to the Roe v. Wade United States Supreme Court decision, the then-First Presidency stated,
“Abortion…
For a couples years (and especially right now) a particular post defending the behavior of Donald Trump has made it rounds on Facebook, shared by Republicans and conservatives who support the President, despite his unruly behavior. It’s author is a woman named Karen Vaughn.
Her argument is that President Trump…
The debilitating burden of shame can creep into the veins of even the most successful and happy people, eroding passion, progression, and peace, leaving once bright individuals feeling alone and darker than the bottom of the pit they believe themselves to be in.
Shame is a powerful parasite.
Thoughts like…
But it’s true.
A quick look at each party’s view on life-or-death issues like the death penalty, climate change, healthcare, and even abortion, shows that, in totality, Democrats support legislation and promote positions that save more American lives than Republicans do.
The 2016 Democratic Party platform says, “[The death penalty]…
The Constitution of the United States was signed this month 233 years ago. It remains one of history’s greatest and most important documents. The preamble, in particular, reads like patriotic poetry:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic…
Despite positioning himself as the I’ve-never-wanted-to-be-a-politician type before announcing his run to represent Utah’s 4th congressional district last fall, Burgess Owens, the Trump-adoring Republican and former professional football player, isn’t a political rookie.
Over the last four years, Owens has been a constant contributor to a number of conservative television…
