I was asked the other day by a friend, “How do we keep our goodness and grace amidst what is going on?” I thought of a historical time not unlike our own. Enter the world of the 1700’s. We often call this the Revolutionary Era, and it is similar to what we are undergoing currently in our ...
Editor's note: This article was originally published in The Conversation The growing assertion of a majority Hindu identity is fueling debates about religious pluralism in India. A 2025 Washington-based research group report documented a steady, incremental increase in hate speech since 2023 ...
I was shopping the other day. Checking out of a store, a young man waited on me. He had a beautiful tattoo on his forearm, black eyeliner under his eyes, and for some reason a tight-knit cap on his head. It was 85 degrees, so the knit cap caught my attention. He was most personable. I asked him if he had graduated from high school; he had not. There were problems in his family, and he had never been in one place to finish his education. “Well,” I said, “you will have to go and get your GED.” “Yes,” he said, but I have to make money to live.” It was a difficult moment; ...
DETROIT — Abdul El-Sayed made history last week in Michigan by becoming the first Muslim nominated by the Democratic Party to run for the U.S. Senate. But elation among many of his fellow Muslim Americans was tempered by awareness of persisting and widespread anti-Muslim sentiment across ...
It is difficult to go anywhere — shopping, the post office, church — that you do not hear people making comments on what is going on in the nation, or the price of food or the cost of gasoline; everything seems to be in flux, and there is a serious feeling of helplessness among many. I am ...
KIRTLAND, Ohio — Elder Brian Garner led a small group of visitors through the sturdy wooden door of what looked like an ordinary colonial church. But nearly two centuries ago, it was where a radical departure in American religious history took hold. “Welcome to the house of the Lord Jesus ...
