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Ideas and Society

A Secular Approach to Same-Sex Marriage – An Illogical CounterfeitBy Richard L. Larsen

Marriage, historically, has represented the legal, moral, and cultural recognition of a binding relationship. Merely ‘definitionally’ reducing marriage to a state legitimized relationship between "people that love each other" is antithetical to the factua

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BYU Hosts Exhibit on LDS Hymns

Education in Zion exhibit event focuses on LDS hymns April 8.

By BYU Media Relations
Pew Study on American View of Christ

Nearly half of Christians in the U.S. believe that Christ will return someday.

Announcing the New Mormon Studies Review

The Mormon Studies Review will publish reviews of important books and other publications relevant to the academic study of Mormonism, along with review essays that will chronicle the field and assess its development.

Celebrating Marriage: A Child Speaks Out

If ever I was ‘endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights,’ this is it—to be born with a mom and dad.

By Scot and Maurine Proctor
Why the Marriage Debate Should Focus on the Needs of Children

We don't have to be against anyone to be for marriage.

By Jenet Erickson
The Inequalities of “Equal” Marriage

The oft-repeated and oft-unanswered question “How does gay marriage affect you personally?” seems to be a rhetorical trump card. Genderless marriage may actually affect heterosexuals more than homosexuals, for it actually dismantles traditional family law

By Mary Fielding Summerhays
A Mormon Reaction to the New Pope

I was moved by the faith and devotion clearly visible on the faces of many of those in St. Peter's Square.

By Daniel C. Peterson
Distinguishing Fact from Fiction in a Fast-Paced Digital World

Digital technologies can be a double-edged sword: they have made our lives more convenient and more confusing.

By The LDS Newsroom