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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The conversation with Dr. Gale Pooley centers on their groundbreaking book Superabundance, which refutes decades of apocalyptic Malthusian thinking by demonstrating—through hard data—that as population increases, so does abundance. Using the innovative metric of “time prices,” which calculates how much time a person must work to afford basic goods, Dr. Pooley shows that global prosperity has skyrocketed over the past two centuries. This conversation dismantles myths of inevitable resource scarcity by highlighting how human ingenuity, freedom, and market-driven innovation have made the world richer, healthier, and more capable of solving its own problems.

We also explore the psychological and cultural roots of anti-human, scarcity-driven ideologies. Figures like Paul Ehrlich and movements such as radical environmentalism promote a view that more people means more problems, but the data reveals the opposite: population growth, when coupled with freedom, is the greatest engine of human progress. The conversation linked the fear of the future to a broader cultural pessimism—fueled by ignorance of history and technophobic fatalism—and calls instead for a renaissance of gratitude and creativity. Far from being a cancer on the Earth, the individual—when free to think, speak, and trade—is a net good.

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What can be a positive technological breakthrough, such as freezing a woman's eggs, can also end up as a strategy to put off motherhood.

What is the status of motherhood today? Author and family policy maker, Leah Libresco Sargeant talks about the cultrual influence on women and motherhood.

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Ralph Hancock introduces his Cwic Show Series, "The City and The Soul." There is no better voice on the intersection of the Restored Gospel, Politics, and Philosophy. Ralph is also a contributor to our Substack, "Alive and Intelligent.'

Ralph is a professor of political philosophy at Brigham Young University and is an accomplished author.

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Fathom The Good Curriculum - https://fathomthegood.com/

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WaveMakers Podcast Cruise - https://www.cwicmedia.com/wavemakers

Cade Alvey is a student at BYU and co-host of the YouTube Channel, All Those In Favor, who has his ear to the ground. He says things are changing at BYU.

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Amanda Freebairn talks about what Latter-day Saint women mean when they say, "Listen To Women." Sometimes "you're not listening" can mean "you're not agreeing with me."

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