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Happy 2024!
And like that, it’s a new year! Look, I’m not much of a write-down-formal-goals-or-resolutions person, but I have some things I’d like to accomplish this year, and thought it would be fun to hear what...
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It’s a new year at church! And, among other things, that means that a new crop of kids has graduated from Primary! Boys and girls who turn 12 in 2024 are now attending Young Men and Young Women. The...
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CFM: 1 Ne. 1-5 and Refugees
Sometime last year, Osmar Emilio Mata left Venezuela with his partner and their two young daughters. They made a 2000-mile trip through dangerous landscapes to arrive in the United States. I don’t...
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On Learning New Hymns (or This Little Light of Mine)
For a year or two while I was a teenager, in addition to sacrament meeting, Sunday school, and RS/PH/YM/YW, we had a fourth church period. After sacrament meeting ended, the Primary teachers would...
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Child Abuse, Confession, and Mandated Reporters
Yesterday, Harrisburg, PA’s local ABC affiliate reported that Pennsylvania police had charged a local stake president of being aware of, but not reporting, child sexual assault allegations. Allegedly,...
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On Fat Tuesday
I really don’t have time to post today, so this is going to be short, but I thought it important to point out that today is Fat (or Shrove) Tuesday. That may not really resonate, since Mormonism...
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Up and To the Right
The other day, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the church’s wealth had increased substantially yet again. According to Ensign Peak Advisors’ Form 13F, as of Dec. 31, 2023, it held about $50.5...
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Reading the Fiery Meteor: Stephen Taysom’s Biography of Joseph F. Smith
I’ve been looking forward to Stephen Taysom’s biography of Joseph F. Smith (Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith) for years now. Like, ever since I learned he was writing it. And it’s not...
View ArticleGarments: Standards vs. Rules
My sophomore year at BYU, freshly off my mission, some friends invited me to hot springs somewhere in the Provo vicinity. (I didn’t end up going, so I have no idea where in the Provo vicinity these...
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Tax Day and Missionary Companionships
It is, again, April 15, Tax Day in the United States (except in Maine and Massachusetts, where Tax Day will be Wednesday, April 17). As happens most years (at least when I remember and am not too...
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