The Doctrine of Religious Freedom

This devotional address was given to the BYU student body on April 3, 2001

The Doctrine of Religious Freedom

This devotional address was given to the BYU student body on April 3, 2001

Against Free Exercise Reductionism

In my lifetime, which began after the second World War, there have been certain moments in which I learned what democracy was about.  The first came as I watched crowds surging through the Berlin wall in 1989.  I was just over forty that year, and by then had spent a tenth of my life in Germany.  I had been able to learn at first hand how much Germany had learned about democracy, and I was as moved by the events as the Germans I watched on television