A few quotes have been on my mind lately. The first is from Hugh Nibley: “History is all hindsight; it…
Browsing: Paradigms
I think we’ve all been there. You may have a good home/visiting teacher now, but I think we’ve all had…
After returning from my full-time missionary service, I started work with my father building decks down on the Gulf Coast…
Back in 2011, I wrote a post about the Word of Wisdom. I had some things that were bothering me…
I wrote most of this back in 2014 but haven’t published it until now. In fact there was a lot…
We live in a world with billions of people and each one of us has ideas on how things should be.…
There was once a craftsman who built a fine house. As the years went by it served him well until…
OneClimbs commenter and general all-around good guy Richard Nobbe left a comment on one of my recent posts and I…
It’s happened to me several times, in fact, the first 17 years of my life were lived without any real…
“So many people I hear say: “Oh, if I just make it to heaven I’ll be secure,” and I always…
Every single one of us, right at this minute, believes things that are wrong. There is an idea that you…
The following was a talk I gave in my sacrament meeting for Mother’s Day, May 10, 2015. Today I want…
I have found this to be a very peaceful way to truth. Contention often arises when prideful individuals play intellectual…
What if we modernized Korihor’s philosophies and compared them to the kinds of things we hear people saying today? For morning…
“One of the most important things in the world is freedom of the mind; from this all other freedoms spring.…
I transcribed the following from the third part of an interview with Terryl Givens on the Mormon Stories podcast. I can’t remember…
Receiving truth “One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it…
Every fast and testimony meeting I can’t help but ponder what people mean by what they say. I suppose that…
I recently started the Book of Mormon over again in audio form while I’m at work. Chapter 6 of 1…
After crying out “O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might…
There is a phrase I hear repeated every now and then among members of the church. Typically when there is…