Every once in awhile, you meet someone who really was and is a pioneer, and it puts shame to the “we are all pioneers” platitude we like to tell ourselves.
Edna Anderson’s funeral was this week, and I am not the best person to write a eulogy for her. But I felt someone ought to let the wider world know. Edna really was a pioneer, and though she will likely never have her story told over the pulpit at General Conference, it should be.
I had no idea this was such a huge issue, but over the last two weeks I have been made painfully aware I am a grievous sinner, just short of a puppy killer.
Thus began the great Mormon grade-grab. (214)
“The Mormons may be going to hell,” said Shawn. “But they really are nice people.” (228)
I’m not much for sports reading, so it seems odd to me that of the three sports books I read in 2008, two would mentions Mormons. (I blogged the other one here). Read the rest of this entry »
Best election advice ever. This paragraph is particularly important:
I’m not an Obama fan, particularly, but a lot of people I like and respect are. To treat Obama as something evil or subhuman would not only be disrespectful toward Obama, but toward them. Instead, I hope that if Obama is elected, their assessment of his strengths will turn out to be right, and mine will turn out to be wrong. Likewise, those who don’t like John McCain or Sarah Palin might reflect that by treating Palin and McCain as obviously evil and stupid, they’re disrespecting tens of millions of their fellow Americans who feel otherwise.
That’s truth right there. One reason I (mostly) stay away from political posts is the disrespect – the assumption that those who disagree are total dupes or willingly participating in evil.
[My first political post in a long, long while. This is my one statement on the current campaign. Other than here, I'm going to stay away from political posts because I abhor the lack of charity that permeates them. The basic idea behind this was borrowed from Ann Althouse].
Yes, I’m conservative (mostly). Yes, I’m an Alaskan (despite being in Texas at the moment). If you think you know how I’m going to vote, you’re probably wrong.
