An invitation to attend and to pray
I strongly encourage my readers to donate blood the next time they have a chance to do it. And please feel free to keep my friend in your prayers.
BYU, Duke, Pitchforks and Torches
It is entirely possible that both BYU and Duke are right in this matter. Consequently, we should give both BYU and Duke the benefit of the doubt.
A Father's Love
Embracing softly with a squeeze,
The silence of the moment speaks:
“Dear child, don’t you know that I,
Will never leave your gentle side?"
“That’s me!”
"I remember a doctor, a hematologist, approaching my body in the hospital bed," wrote William Peters. "He gently called out my name and I remember thinking as I watched the scene from above, Do I really want to go back into that body?"
Who Felt or Saw the Plates?
I am concerned about IANDS, to see a mingling of what I regard as pretty solid material with other things that seem to me rather dubious at best.
A Transcendent Light
I’ve just completed reading William J. Peters (with Michael Kinsella), At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better. Here are a few of the passages that I marked during my reading.
On Two Women in the Old Testament, and regarding Heavenly Mother
Heavenly Mother should be joyful, not another cultural battle. Is it possible to treasure what has been revealed about Heavenly Mother without descending into the kind of acrimonious debate we see online? Of course, it is, say Bethany and McArthur.
The Fight
Compromising values for friendship puts you in compromising positions. Quite literally in some cases.
Coming up on 5 November 2022
In anticipation of the 2022 Temple on Mount Zion Conference on Saturday, 5 November 2022, we begin a new series of articles: Conference Talks.
Seeking help from readers in Canada, the UK, and beyond
Streaming services Deseret Video+ and Living Scriptures seem to work differently in different countries — as, of course, do DVDs. I could use your feedback.
An infallible formula for never lapsing into inactivity in the Church
When he first shared his formula I thought, "That's it?! Really?" But decades later it seems a little bit less empty to me, and a little bit wiser, than it did when I first heard it.
Don L. Lind, RIP
A faithful Latter-day Saint, Don Lind was a retired NASA astronaut with a doctorate in high-energy nuclear physics. Here are my stories with him.