Commentary: LDS Church and new apostle Clark Gilbert can thank secular education for their rise

Commentary: LDS Church and new apostle Clark Gilbert can thank secular education for their rise

According to Clark Gilbert, the latest man to be called as an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, American universities have lost their religion. Harvard, of which Gilbert is an alum, and higher education in general, he often noted while serving as commissioner of church education, began with a spiritual mission but later evolved to embrace secular learning. This, he explains, is even more reason for religious institutio…