Father Lehi prophesied. He said, “If the day shall come that [the people of this land] will reject the Holy One of Israel, the true Messiah, their Redeemer and their God, behold, the judgments of him that is just shall rest upon them. Yea, he will bring other nations unto them, and he will give […]
Want is infinite. That, anyway, is the American economic dogma. The first lesson I learned in Econ 110 was that want is like the receding horizon–ride faster, push harder, and wear out your life in its pursuit and, in the end, it does not matter. Strangely, want does not diminish with achievement […]
I have been flagrantly lying on my temple recommend interview…
Your minds must be racing right now, what could it be that Ryan has been lying about?
The law of chastity? No, I probably couldn’t break that law if I tried. My wife was the only woman in the world so full of charity that she would […]
I received the book ‘Rational Theology’ by John A. Widtsoe for Christmas last year, and read the entire book in about two days. I had requested the book because I had heard a few good things about it. I felt it was a ’safe’ book to get because it was written by a […]
The most touching movie I have seen since Hotel Rwanda…
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I have developed a new illness. It’s called “sunbeam syndrome”. It’s a very serious neurological condition. I’ve written this post to retrace the causes and the effects of this disorder to serve as a notification to those who might be susceptible to acquiring this malady…
They recently made a change in our (My wife and I) […]
That was my summer of irresponsibility–I spent most of it as a ski bum.
My parents didn’t want a ski boat, so I mooched off friends whose parents were more willing. I learned to slalom the week after graduating from high school and spent the rest of the summer mastering the art of carving jagged lines […]
There’s a lot of mission reminiscing going on in the bloggernacle lately. I don’t have any formal missionary experience of my own, so my concern and interest here is mostly as a mom. I can’t help but think that a mission president has a huge influence on those who serve under him. I sometimes […]
About half way through my mission I was serving as a district leader, and one of the companionships in the district were not getting along all that well. We set up a tradeoff where we would go to their area and I would spend part of the day with the senior companion and my […]
Pat Bagley (who is fast becoming my favorite cartoonist of all time) gives his take on the Gay Mormon experience… classic.
