A Note on Revelation

I have always loved the Doctrine & Covenants and am excited for this year’s focus on that book of scripture in Sunday School.

The Influence of Education

Kudos to a New York University journalism student in Prague for an interesting story that involves Mormons and religion (ht:T&S).

Drafts

It’s funny but with this new WordPress dashboard all of my drafts appear to have been redated January 1, 1970.

Early Bloomers

In England they start kids off on an activist career very young, it seems.

DEM DEUTSCHEN VOLKE

The Federal Republic of Germany turns eighteen today — at least in its reunified form. On October 3, 1990 the official Reunification of a country divided for 45 years by what seemed an insurmountable geopolitical estrangement took place in Berlin, the besieged city at the very heart of the Cold War. The scene played out on the steps of the famous Reichstag building upon which the words in the title of this post are inscribed just below the pediment: DEM DEUTSCHEN VOLKE — “To the German people”.

BOMB*: A Homily on Deliverance for Rosh Hashanah

The sons of mothers and fathers who prostrated themselves before a hostile army to be slaughtered at will for their religious beliefs (Alma 24:21) knew that there were worse things in this world than dying firm in their faith —

For Shame

Bookslinger is still on the Lord’s errand, slinging his books and other Gospel materials.

BOMB*: A Voice to Shake the Earth

A lot of water passed under the bridge between Alma the Younger’s dramatic conversion to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a young man and his exclamation of desire to speak with the same voice of an angel that had shaken him to his very core those decades earlier.

Newsroom Blogging and Grand Enterprises

A new post at the LDS Newsroom strays from being a news story or a commentary on some inaccuracy in the media about the Church or our beliefs as Latter-day Saints and more closely resembles a blog post.

Our Dead III

As in the past three years, we took the opportunity this year to celebrate Memorial Day (albeit a week late due to workload at the office on the actual holiday) by visiting the resting place of our dead. I described our previous excursions in the following posts: Our Dead, Our Dead II, and Convert Ancestor.