On March 13, Wheatley Institute, along with the BYU Religious Education Department and the Peacemaker Project, welcomed Dr. Lawrence E. Carter to BYU campus for an inspiring speech on the necessity of active pursuit of world peace, outlining steps students could take towards establishing peace in both their personal lives and in a global community.

“All of us can play a part in healing our society’s wounds and divisions these days by thinking consciously, explicitly, about how to make the institutions that we are part of a little stronger."

Wheatley Fellow Jenet Erickson gave a devotional address at BYU-Idaho about the human need for connection, and how humans are designed, both in a theological and a biological sense, to thrive in a family.

Using over a decade of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Wheatley Fellow Dr. Samuel Wilkinson's study finds that unmarried individuals are consistently at higher risk for suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts—and that the protective effect of marriage has grown over time, especially among those who have never married and young people have de-prioritized marriage as an important life goal.

The phrase ‘constitutional crisis’ is everywhere. But is it accurate?

The Constitution matters now more than ever