My wife and I spent much of the day at the annual conference of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), which is being held (through Sunday morning) in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was fascinating, as I expected it to be.

Wrote Heber Kimball, "I then sat on the bed and could distinctly see the evil spirits, who foamed and gnashed their teeth upon us. We gazed upon them about an hour and a half".

This article, written by the forthright and courageous Cassandra Hedelius, is both extremely important and extremely concerning.

Full-throated denunciations of the Church over recent incidents have been obviously eager. As more details come to light, will critics adjust their views to align with facts?

In my years of experience at BYU — which represent most of my adult life, as either student or faculty member — I did not find racism endemic or even very common. (As a matter of fact, although I assume that it existed, I never saw it at all.).

It worries me is that a large number of Americans, many of them members of the social, economic, and political elite, no longer seem to recognize much if any value in the freedom of religion

"Such as thou art, sometime was I. Such as I am, such shalt thou be."

"In order to understand what happened next, you should know about me that I absolutely loathe being called up onto the stage during shows and things of the sort. "