The Equal Rights Amendment: Still a Bad Idea for Women and Families
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cover image: Phyllis Schlafly demonstrates with other women against the Equal Rights Amendment in 1977 via Wikimedia Commons. United Families...
View ArticleEmbarrassing Gaffes Continue to Show Media’s Ignorance of Religion
From THEDAILYSIGNAL’s Jarrett Stepman Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Christianity has evolved in our country’s history, experiencing periods of growth and decline. But what...
View ArticleSPLC: Blacklisting Pro-family Groups and Peddling Hate
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black For the...
View ArticleOpinion: USU journalists should get a “targeting” foul for one-sided report
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Two Utah State University journalism students, aided by their professor, unleashed what can only be termed a one-sided assault on both BYU and...
View ArticleWhy a Former “Trans” Kid Pleads with Utah Officials “Don’t Ban Therapy”
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Today’s cover explains why Utah is on the verge of banning therapy that would allow children and teens who are questioning or confused about...
View ArticleDeseret News Op Ed: Romney and the paradox of political courage
The following is excerpted from the Deseret News. To read the full article, CLICK HERE. The fallout after Sen. Mitt Romney’s vote on Wednesday to convict the president on the charge he abused his...
View ArticleBYU Honor Code Controversy: An Alumna’s Take
The following is excerpted from Millennial Star. To read the full article, CLICK HERE. Last week the Church updated the General Handbook and released it to the membership at large. In conjunction with...
View ArticleOpinion: Criticism of the church’s COVID-19 aid was premature
The following was excerpted from the Deseret News. To read the full article, CLICK HERE. Complaints that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wasn’t doing enough to combat COVID-19 seem...
View ArticleBearing false witness at the National Catholic Register
Joel Campbell is an associate professor of journalism at BYU . He researches. writes and teaches about media and religion. He does not speak for BYU or any other organization. This column reflects...
View ArticleThe pandemic highlights a logical fallacy that, unless checked, could prove...
The following first appeared in the Deseret News. We see it everywhere. Either you’re pro-NRA or anti-Second Amendment. If you have compassion for undocumented workers, you don’t uphold the law....
View ArticleWhy I Believe America is Exceptional
The following first appeared in Public Square Magazine. In Defense of American Exceptionalism I just returned from a wonderful trip to Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota. Looking up at four of America’s best...
View ArticleTwenty-seven Year-Old Babies: The Promise and Perils of Embryo Adoption
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View ArticleSection 230 and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The following first appeared in Public Square Magazine. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has come under significant scrutiny in the past year. In a highly polarized Washington, it seems...
View ArticleMore Thoughts on the Capitol Breach
The following first appeared in Public Square Magazine. I grew up in the deep south in the 1960’s in a family where I was taught that God loves all of His children equally – black and white, male and...
View ArticleCritical Race Theory Infiltrates Government, Classrooms
The following is excerpted from the Daily Signal. To read the full article, CLICK HERE. Critical theory, an ideology that has dropped deep roots into America’s most powerful institutions, is opposed...
View ArticleUltra-Woke Illinois Mandates Are Top Threat to U.S. Education
The following first appeared in National Review. It is reprinted here with permission. Step aside, California. Minnesota, hang your head. Illinois is the wokest of all, and what it does will spread....
View ArticleMark Cuban’s Airball on Freedom
The following comes from the Family Research Council. Back in November, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban suspended the playing of the national anthem before home games. Because stands sit empty due...
View ArticleHow Redefining Marriage Has Undermined the Rights and Wellbeing of Children
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View ArticleH.R. 1 Is a Partisan Assault on American Democracy
The following is excerpted from the National Review. To read the full article, CLICK HERE. Late Wednesday night, the House passed H.R. 1, the “For the People Act.” It passed by ten votes, with every...
View ArticleNetflix’s ‘Murder Among the Mormons’ uses the same stereotypes about our...
The following is excerpted from NBC News. To read the full article, CLICK HERE. Cover image via Netflix. One of the most audacious and devious forgers in U.S. history, Mark Hofmann spent the early...
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