A current television show revolves around the heinous murders of a woman and her infant daughter in 1980s Utah. …

It is easy to underestimate both the generous kindness of God and His unyielding commitment to truth. I love the eloquence and clarity of this description of both sides of God’s character in dealing with His children: Our Heavenly Father is more liberal in his views, and boundless in his…

Christian and Kimberly Cardall — Christian: I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11.25–26) Kimberly: Good morning, and welcome! Christians everywhere have many beautiful and meaningful traditions in…

The Nativity — the story of God’s arrival in the world, clothed in mortal flesh — is a narrative of hidden glory, accomplished and recognized by those on the margins of Israel. An older barren couple miraculously sired and bore a prophet whose calling led to the wilderness, imprisonment, and…

Sola scriptura will not get the job done. In fact, it can do more harm than good when fundamentalist idolatry of the written word hinders true worship of the Living Word. Yes, the written word can be invaluably powerful in its reverberations across time and space, connecting us to those…

The other night on Facebook I made a brief expression of gratitude for ties that bind. Allow me to elaborate. The ties that bind keep us safe and secure. They hold us in place when fleeting (or even not-so-fleeting) feelings would lead us to wander or flee into circumstances that…

I recently heard a thought expressed by Bishop Robert Barron that resonated with me: noting our tendency to slide into either indifferent tolerance or coercive domination, he lamented that we seem to have lost the ability to have genuine arguments — not in the colloquial contentious sense, but in the…

I am grateful for a physical body. In all their variety, each is a precious gift from God, for which I #GiveThanks. Generated by a long line of mortal ancestors in a fallen world, some of these variations are conventionally regarded as imperfections, limitations, and even disabilities, and in fact…

[Unabridged version of a sacrament meeting talk delivered 11 October 2020 in the Melton Lake Ward of the Knoxville Cumberland Stake.] And now, if God, who has created you, on whom you are dependent for your lives and for all that ye have and are, doth grant unto you whatsoever…