Recent Events & Issues

Faithful, factually rigorous responses to the news stories and current controversies members are actually encountering.

The Church does not exist outside of time, and neither does honest faith. When a story breaks that touches the household of faith — whether it concerns a member, a leader, a policy, or a historical claim newly in the headlines — Latter-day Saints deserve an answer that neither looks away from what is true nor concedes what the evidence does not establish. The articles below take current events one at a time and treat them with that same discipline.

Articles

Doctrinal Response · Current Events · Six-Part Series

Does the Church Protect Abusers? An Honest Answer

A six-part series on the accusation that the Church shelters abusers — conceding the documented human failures by name while showing that written policy, a thirty-year-old tracking system, disciplinary practice, and the direction of the law all point away from institutional intent.

• Church Policy and Protections
• The Abuse Help Line
• The Cases Critics Cite
• Clergy Privilege and the Law
• Comparative Context and the Psychology of Predators

Doctrinal Response · Current Events

The Millstone and the Open Hand

A faithful response to the Wade Christofferson case — what the record establishes, what it does not, and what the doctrine of mercy was never meant to cover.