Catch the podcast episode "What's Next for DEI?" 👇 faithangle.podbean.com/e/whats-next-f…

“Like a whale stuck in a pond…” :) Brilliant conversation between Peter Wehner and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams that moves effortlessly from Dostoyevsky to the New Atheists to the invitation to transcend the hall of mirrors: nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opi…

Congrats Kelsey! Great news for SCOTUSblog, bum news for Deseret ... but what a run thus far!

Will the Trump administration follow court decisions? A foreboding piece from ⁦Asma Uddin⁩ that thinks a few moves ahead… 👇 deseret.com/opinion/2025/0…

From NYT on faith in the Hamas tunnels of Gaza… From Psalm 20 — “May the Lord answer you on a day of distress..” From Nietzsche — “He who has a Y can sustain any how.” 👇 nytimes.com/2025/06/10/wor…

Fascinating Aspen Digital conference underway: Is AI “invoking a new population”? Merely reflecting human values? Will if help us better grieve (Grandpa-Bot), date (Match), make new kinds of art (MachineCinema), and improve relationships (Common Era)? youtube.com/live/YX74hQSM1…

“‘Justice Scalia used to say, and I wholeheartedly agree, that if you find yourself liking the results of every decision that you make, you’re in the wrong job....” nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/…

Jon’s great book just keeps being cited out here at BYU Religious Freedom conference today…

“The 20th century really was the consummate ‘I - we - I’ century,” says Shaylyn Romney Garrett. Many of us have seen this chart before, but it really is amazing to see the impact of the social gospel and uptick in social capital over several generations. “We could do it again.”

I know this sounds crazy. But hear me out. The Iranian diplomat might be, ya know, lying.

wow

I have been critical of Donald Trump for nearly a decade now. But when he does the right thing, I am going to say so. My latest The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“In difficult times, optimism isn’t the precursor to action; action is the precursor to optimism.” Aspen Ideas

Really great session. Keep any eye out for the recording… 👇

whole fam made it to ⁦Aspen Ideas⁩ yesterday

Horrifying. Under darkness of night, the catastrophic floods early July 4 killed at least 51 people, incl. 15 children, at Camp Mystic and elsewhere along the banks of the Guadalupe River, in central Texas: nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/…

A 2024 Pew poll finds that “only 32% of young adults believe that it is extremely or very important for the US to take an active role in the world, compared to 74% of those aged 65 and more,” writes @daliborrohac.bsky.social 🇺🇦🌮 👇 …icans-dont-care-about-europe.tiiny.co

Could contemporary film, TV, and journalism cover religion more accurately? Of course. Hope you’ll join us this evening @ 6:00pm ET on LinkedIn for a virtual conversation with 9 scholar-practitioners on emerging opportunities for better storytelling. 👇 linkedin.com/video/event/ur…