My father wrote a beautiful post about one of the great benefits of doing family history work. I’ll quote about half of his post: “Slowly my heart turned to my ancestors…. The mo
I’ve written this before but I love Truman G. Madsen’s talks and books and videos. You probably don’t want to get me started talking about them or else I might not stop for a long
One time I went with a friend to play tennis. While we were playing the tennis balls we brought with us all either went flat or broke or were lost. So we were stuck with a conundrum, do we stick ar
After finding the words to the poem Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson I started playing the Wikipedia game of following linked to pages. I was led, obviously, to the page about Alfred,
While doing a search online to see what people say about whether or not the wise men visited the infant Jesus in the manger (they didn’t), I came across a comment about the Bible that I’
This is my favorite video for Christmas this year. It tells the story of a group of LDS Church members who gave up their Christmas day to serve others even though, for most of them, Christmas day w
Why do some within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints not become fully invested in the Church? I believe it’s for the same reason some who are not members of the Church do not gi
A couple Sundays ago I was teaching the lesson to our Priest (we only have one) when I made a comment about us leaders in the Church being easily replaceable. I meant the comment to be somewhat sel
If you are interested in family history or specifically if you are interested in how the scientific method (and critical thinking) can apply to family history research, read my father’s post
November 30, 2010 is the day for new.lds.org to become the new lds.org (is that confusing enough?). I’m looking forward to the change (although I’ve been using the beta site for a long