Professor Ralph Hancock of BYU discusses the dilemmas facing the church and the complexities of navigating politics as Latter-day Saints work within a secular world.

Ralph's Articles on Alive and Intelligent Substack - https://aliveandintelligent.substack.com

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Associate Professor Brent Yergensen has just written the most comprehensive and clarifying work on the Pride movement within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His conclusion? A Shadow Faith has risen in the church!

His Paper, Shadow Faith or Organizational Breakoff? Inflection Points and the Symbolic Convergence of Latter-day Saint Subculture was recently published by an academic journal.

Here is the paper - https://cdr.creighton.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/8c5efbfa-87d1-4c0f-b037-3ad6a76cdfa5/content

Brent Yergensen (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Communication at The University of Texas at Tyler. His research focuses on the intersections of religion, science, politics, and history with mass media, especially film. He teaches primarily in media theory and history, rhetorical theory and criticism, research methods, and organizational communication.

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Erec Smith of the Cato Institute returns to the show to talk about where the US stands with its DEI and woke culture and policies. Now at a crossroads, will academia change? Sports? Business? With a new administration bent on changing law and policy against DEI, we seem to be in a period of reprieve, but will it last?

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