Happy Father’s Day. I love this day. Here are a few thoughts in my head this morning written to honor all the fathers out there but most importantly to honor my children who for me make being a father so great. The scripture from the Proclamation on Family might be my favorite in scripture. […]

  The most controversial statement Pres. Oaks made in his Be One talk was the following.   I studied the reasons then being given and could not feel confirmation of the truth of any of them. As part of my prayerful study, I learned that, in general, the Lord rarely gives reasons for the commandments […]

  President Dallin H. Oaks spoke at the ‘Be One’ celebration of the 40th anniversary of ending the priesthood and temple ban for black LDS. In his pre-general-authority life, Pres. Oaks graduated from University of Chicago law school in 1957, clerked for the US Supreme Court for two years, and worked in corporate litigation and […]

  I finally got a copy of Adam Miller’s An Early Resurrection: Life in Christ Before You Die. Advanced copies are available at Writ & Vision bookstore in Provo.   I’m really getting inspired by Miller’s way of mixing Mormon Christianity with what I’ve been learning from Buddhism. Following Christ by living with him in the present […]