Justin Dyer

Dec 10, 2024 | deseret.com | Justin Dyer

Editor's note: This commentary by BYU professor W. Justin Dyer is part of an ongoing Deseret News opinion series exploring ideas and issues at the intersection of faith and thought. The author's views are his own. After surveying the recent changes in marriage, prominent family scholar Stephanie Coontz wrote: "Everywhere marriage is becoming more optional and more fragile. Everywhere the once-predictable link between marriage and child rearing is fraying.

Jul 4, 2024 | theohiopressnetwork.com | Justin Dyer

To no one’s surprise, a new poll commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) found that confidence in higher education is at an all-time low. Americans’ dissatisfaction with higher education has been in slow decline for more than a decade. Ubiquitous footage last spring of students parroting terrorist slogans while building campus encampments and occupying academic buildings only accelerated the collapse.

Jul 4, 2024 | fairfieldsuntimes.com | Justin Dyer

To no one’s surprise, a new poll commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) found that confidence in higher education is at an all-time low. Americans’ dissatisfaction with higher education has been in slow decline for more than a decade. Ubiquitous footage last spring of students parroting terrorist slogans while building campus encampments and occupying academic buildings only accelerated the collapse.

May 3, 2024 | medium.com | Justin Dyer

Writing songs has always been a part of my life. I started writing songs before I could play any instrument. In fact, I started collecting song lyrics in notebooks before I ever knew what songwriting meant. Come to think of it, I am still not sure what songwriting means completely...

Apr 3, 2024 | christianitytoday.com | Justin Dyer |Jenet Erickson

In 2021, the Religious Exception Accountability Project (REAP) brought a lawsuit calling for "an end to the U.S. Department of Education's complicity in the abuses and unsafe conditions thousands of LGBTQ+ students endure at hundreds of taxpayer-funded, religious colleges and universities." The underlying premise of REAP's suit is that the federal government "is duty-bound by Title IX and the U.S. Constitution to protect sexual and gender minority students at taxpayer-funded colleges and...