These are short comments, thoughts, or experiences that may not fit as a full article, but is something I wanted to express anyway.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is an interesting mixture of choices and obligations. Most Christian denominations are almost 100% about choice. You can come to church if you want or stay home if you want. What happens [...]
Increased temple attendance is a sign of the times. Not all the signs of the times are as obvious as events such as the sun turning to blood or a nuclear apocalypse, complete with an accompanying zombie invasion. [...]
Life is a pretty amazing thing, even without attaching any philosophies or religions to it. The mere fact that we are all alive, even if for only a short time, is miraculous beyond our ability to grasp its significance. But [...]
Something has been stewing in the back of my mind for many months. Something about the timing in mortality for the blessings of this last dispensation just didn't add up for me. It wasn't until just the last few days [...]
I came straight out of bed with the realization that what I had witnessed a few hours before on television was something I had seen elsewhere, but far more masterfully done. While watching a show about King Louis XIV, the [...]
This is a plea for help from any septuagenarians or octogenarians who might read this post. I have a mother who is 83 years old and would like to be fiercely independent, but increasingly needs help. We're butting heads, but [...]
(Labeled for reuse on www.publicdomainpictures.net) Every body has a heart, and our church has two bodies and two hearts. As children we begin in the body of the church, but the first time we are given a position [...]
(Labeled for reuse on wikimedia.com) The title for this article popped into my head in Church today. It was then followed by several versions of the same question. So this article is answering my own question to myself. [...]
(labeled for reuse on dover.af.mil) This is an opinion piece. With that said, I know that there will be those who disagree with me. That is why it is an opinion. I have many friends who are impoverished. [...]
The title of this article is, of course, not fair. Anytime someone uses always or never as the basis for a question, the answer is pretty consistently, no. But the question is based on one that occurred to me as [...]