Stepping on a Snake

Yesterday I walked down to our mailbox to collect the mail. There was an alumni magazine from my doctoral university so I started reading through it on my way back home. Being spring and Florida, I

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Master Mahan

“Wherefore Lamech, being angry, slew [Irad], not like unto Cain, his brother Abel, for the sake of getting gain, but he slew him for the oath’s sake. For, from the days of Cain, there was a sec

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The Reality of Evil

While I was a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints my missionary companion and I were out knocking on doors in a suburb of Seattle on a Thursday morning in June. At one ho

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C.S. Lewis Quote du Jour

“Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled…. It follows that this Bad Power…must have thi

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Good and Evil – Part 2

None of us remember our life before this earth when we lived with our Father in Heaven as His children. However, just because we do not remember this does not mean it was not real or did not happen

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Good and Evil – Part 1

I recently saw an ad for a Halloween party sponsored by a major corporation. The main tag-line of the ad was: “Evil never goes out of fashion.” That line succinctly summarizes one of th

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