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Commentary: BYU can and should promote LDS faith, and there are many ways to do it

“Requiring faculty members to assent to statements of orthodoxy,” Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman writes, “can betray fear that the faith is fragile.”

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune)  BYU, shown in February 2024, can and should be a distinctively religious school, says Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman. "The question is not whether one supports a religious model of education at BYU," he writes. "The question is what that model might look like."

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) BYU, shown in February 2024, can and should be a distinctively religious school, says Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman. "The question is not whether one supports a religious model of education at BYU," he writes. "The question is what that model might look like."