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Welcome to Wheatley Institute

Learn more about our mission and who we are.
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American Families in an Era of Rapid Change

American Family Survey 2025 Released
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Resources for Peacemaking

Online resources for dialogue and depolarization.

Strengthening society through research-supported work that fortifies the core institutions of family, religion, and constitutional government.

INITIATIVES

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Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, January 22
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The Power of Pluralism in the Workplace

August 21, 2025 12:31 PM
Wheatley Religion Initiative Director Paul Lambert joined religious inclusion expert Sumreed Ahmad for a discussion on the power of pluralism in the workplace, sharing ways their religious backgrounds have shaped the way they work and collaborate.
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Annual Law Student Seminar 2025: Divinely Inspired Constitutional Principles

August 13, 2025 05:34 PM
Wheatley Institute hosted our 2025 Divinely Inspired Constitutional Principles Law Student Seminar, with law students from universities around the country. Students heard from authorities and officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as Wheatley Fellows and BYU professors who taught about the principles emphasized in President Dallin H. Oaks's April 2021 General Conference talk on the Constitution.
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Paul Lambert University Forum

July 29, 2025 12:30 PM
Religion Initiative Director Paul Lambert spoke in the University Forum speaking on Faith and Flourishing in Your Life and Work.
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Latter-day Saints are retaining faith at uniquely high levels in a secularizing society

December 16, 2025 10:33 AM
Although retention is not as high as it once was, for Latter-day Saints it has remained remarkably robust across every major indicator of religious life. They lead the nation in church attendance, personal and family religious practice, and active retention, including among Millennials and Gen Z.
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Wall Street Journal Features Wheatley Family Study

December 03, 2025 10:06 AM
"While most people aren’t “overtly hostile” to marriage, they’re becoming “indifferent” to it because they don’t see “its utility or its advantages”—even though family scholars across the political spectrum agree on its economic, social and individual benefits."
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A model for how to approach disagreements on contentious issues with civility, respect

November 24, 2025 10:15 AM
"They took on one of the thorniest issues of the day from the heart of the culture wars and treated each other with dignity. They didn’t attack each other; they contended with each other’s ideas and only after working hard to understand those ideas."
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