These are short comments, thoughts, or experiences that may not fit as a full article, but is something I wanted to express anyway.
Someone submitted a video for consideration in the Latter-day Saints Ministering Facebook (FB) group. Normally, I don't even watch them, I just delete them and move on. But this said it was from the church, so I took a moment [...]
Who is the heir? The girl is adopted. The son is natural born (blood). So who is the"first born"? Until recently, the definition of who really counts as family has traditionally boiled down to one question - "Are [...]
Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash This post is a confession, and like most confessions, I am not proud of myself. The title of this article will be explained later. I feel constrained to share what I recently [...]
This is an opinion piece based on an epiphany I had about the nature and character of Christ. Please read this with the understanding that I, of course, answer a resounding YES! to the question posed by my title. What [...]
This is an exploration of my own thoughts. I still have as many questions as answers, but I think I am on to something. I want to talk about how our thinking in mortality affects us as we try to [...]
Light and truth are synonyms for the enlightenment and knowledge we can receive from the Holy Ghost. Do we understand some of the characteristics of light and truth, the properties that govern their behavior? This article talks about six aspects [...]
The Lord has infinite ways to teach us. We just have to make the right connection, and almost anything can become a lesson in good versus evil. In this story about Jack, he learns some important lessons about himself, and [...]
What exactly is the difference between mortality and the spirit world? It seems like a simple enough question to answer. All my life I have defined mortality as the period in eternity when we leave our Father in Heaven's presence [...]
Photo by Christopher Beddies on Unsplash I wonder what my mother would say if she knew I was hearing voices in my head? I wonder if she would feel like I was a failure? Sometimes such things are [...]
I don't remember where I was, probably in Church, but someone said something and it woke me up. Not literally. They quoted a verse of scripture that had the phrase "for my sake" in it. My first thought was, "What? [...]