One of the constantly bewildering aspects of living on planet Earth is the assumption that most human beings seem to make that faith (usually, but not necessarily, the religious variety) is a virtue.

As a young man, immersed in the secular spirit of the age, I thought I needed to choose between reason or religion. One couldn’t choose both because one contradicted the other. We could have the ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Faith & Reason Institute, the first Washington, D.C.-based think tank devoted to encouraging both of these essential elements of human existence. The ...

A scientist shown researching basic moral principles and the meaning of life (Wikimedia Commons public domain image) While in California a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a copy of Gerard Verschuuren ...

Faith and reason are like two wings upon which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart the desire to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — ...

Observation and reason are not opposed to faith, but work synergistically with faith, taught Elder Dale G. Renlund, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

This book review appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of The Independent Review. Ongoing conflict with and within the Middle East has spawned a significant literature regarding the “clash of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eliza Anderson, Deseret News The Center for the Humanities at a leading university offers this simple and compelling definition of ...

And, according to this mindset, religion and science are mutually incompatible. Religion is the function of “belief.” Science, in glaring contrast, trades only in “facts.” Of course, as is readily ...

Many arguments against migration suggest that only certain groups of people (the “blood”) are suitable to live on this land (the “soil”) and that only those belonging to those groups are true ...

The key term of biblical psychology, particularly in the Old Testament where the fundamental principles are laid down, is the term heart. When contemporary Christians, often in evangelistic preaching, ...