The United States is nearly unique among developed nations because it allows direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising. The pharmaceutical industry is enormous and these companies ensure their ads are slick and alluring. To site just one example, I have often found myself nearly salivating for Claritin when I see ads for it on […]
Well, I did it. I read ‘The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion’ by Sterling McMurrin. My wife got it for me for our anniversary (at my request, she had never heard of such a thing). I must confess, I quite enjoyed reading it. I imagine that I only got […]
My wife and I started training for a marathon for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society.
As such we have each been charged with raising a sum of money (75% of which will go directly to research, the other 25% goes to administrative costs.) As I am loathe to use sad stories and such to guilt people […]
I was a pretty big sports fan during my high school and college days. As I look back at that time (the ’80s), it may have been the high point of the Mormon professional athlete. In baseball you had Dale Murphy, in football there was Steve Young, and basketball had Danny Ainge. […]
I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight
That to somebody’s need made me blind;
But I never have yet felt a tinge of regret
For being a little too kind.
-unknown
Stones can build, and stones can destroy.
In the church we are taught as a matter of course that one of the main purposes of our […]
Yesterday I picked up the program for Sacrament meeting and sat down and prepared for a good 2 - 3 minute read. I was grossly disappointed to find that there were only two (2) announcements! Having been duly robbed of my scheduled distraction, I decided to take a few minutes to come up with some […]
I posted this awhile ago when the Blogger of Jared was born. I noticed it while perusing our archives and thought it might be nice to post again with a few changes.
The question of common sense is always “What is it good for?” - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered […]
24 And there stood one among them that was like unto God, and he said unto those who were with him: We will go down, for there is space there, and we will take of these materials, and we will make an earth whereon these may dwell;
25 And we will prove them herewith, to see […]
Though this is a couple of days late, I hope you (especially you mothers) will enjoy it. Please forgive the explanatory tone at the beginning of the post. I gave this as a talk in Sacrament Meeting on Sunday and there were a number of invesitgators present, so I fashioned it for their ears.
Some twenty […]
Sanford Bingham was my Great, great, great, great, grandfather if I counted right. I outline the genealogy of my mothers which leads to his wife, Martha Ann Lewis here. He was around during many of the important events in early church history. I was given a brief history of his life a […]
