Are we healthy enough?
Posted on April 29, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 27 Comments
A shocking recent Michigan State University report showed that only 3 percent of Americans have a healthy lifestyle. While I have only anecdotal evidence, the percentage may be even lower among Latter-day Saints. We’ve got to do better.
Read More..>>Convergence and disagreement
Posted on April 28, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 31 Comments
On a micro level, LDS tend to want to be agreeable. Whether for the sake of “being nice,” scriptural injunctions to “be one,” social or other reasons, we don’t like to express disagreements with each other. We stifle our opinions, we sit on our hands in class, we let the teacher ramble even if he’s […]
Read More..>>What Would You Do?
Posted on April 27, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 32 Comments
I have a friend, whom we will call Sally, who works as a nurse in a low-income urban area. Sally is Mormon. The other day she was paid a visit by a 16 year-old girl, whom we will call Maria, who recently discovered she is pregnant.
Maria informed Sally that she wants […]
[Your name here], verily, verily, I say unto you…
Posted on April 27, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 10 Comments
One thing I love about the Doctrine and Covenants is how so many of the revelations are directed to specific individuals. Sure, we read what is written and apply the lessons in our own lives, generalizing the counsel and direction given from the particular instance to our own lives and to the church membership […]
Read More..>>Forgiveness
Posted on April 26, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 14 Comments
I’ve been rather busy the last week or so, so I’ve gotten rather behind in my posting. But over at my blog I was commenting on a couple of discussions regarding forgiveness. They were a bit technical, but there were a few interesting more practical issues that came up in the discussion. […]
Read More..>>Things needed
Posted on April 26, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 23 Comments
When you haven’t posted for a while, and you don’t have lots of time, the easiest thing to do is to have your kids write for you. Jaymie, my seven-year-old daughter, spent much of Sunday morning (she was sick and didn’t go to church) compiling a list titled “Things needed.” When I asked […]
Read More..>>The Eternal Hope of Spring
Posted on April 25, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 19 Comments
I grew up listening to the music of my Dad: James Taylor, Seals and Crofts, Ann Murray, Christopher Cross, and Simon and Garfunkel, to name a few. Of all those artists, Simon and Garfunkel were my favorites. I was particularly fond of thier song, “The Boxer,” although more for the melody than […]
Read More..>>An all-female radio station in Utah
Posted on April 25, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 4 Comments
I wonder if this will have any success. My take: if I were living in Utah, it wouldn’t be my kind of place to visit on the radio dial. But then again, I’m not the target audience. Ladies (and others), what say ye?
Read More..>>Monday Morning Millennial Star Question #4
Posted on April 25, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 21 Comments
From Clifford A. Pickover’s The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience:
On a cool autumn night, you are gazing up at the sky when a being suddenly appears and asks, “What can I do to make you believe that I am God?” What is your answer?
On Correlation
Posted on April 25, 2005 - Filed Under Any | 33 Comments
Local control is a good thing. When every policy and practice is dictated by a distant, centralized authority, a local organization can lose its flavor. And the flavor that is not lost will make that small group of people feel alien when word comes in from HQ on how they are to behave. […]
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