Shauna and I are normally very excited to have 11AM church. It gives you just enough time to sleep in and be lazy in the morning without spending all day waiting until it’s time to go. When we got the switch this year, we thought it would be a good thing. There’s just one problem: [...]
Filed under: Church, Liam, Life on February 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A lot of people don’t really get Twitter. To be honest, I didn’t get it either until I actually started using it. Up until this weekend, I used it primarily to share links and get customer service escalation as well as easily exchange short messages with friends. During General Conference, though, I found out that [...]
Filed under: Church, Geek on October 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
It’s very easy to get outraged at improper uses of power and force and rightly so. Such abuses are antithetical to American ideals be they used by public or private security forces. Sometimes, however, the accusers decide to inflate their claims when they are clearly in the wrong. I believe the recent kissing controversy to [...]
Filed under: Church, Politics on July 29th, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Over the years, I've found plenty of areas where I disagree with the libertarian view. Too much of what they propose is pure anarchy, stripping government down far beyond the minimum necessary to function. So it goes with most libertarian arguments for removing state influence from marriage or eliminating all restrictions as to who is [...]
Filed under: Church, Politics on November 24th, 2008 | 38 Comments »
Today in church, we had a combined meeting with all of the adults and youth concerning the new temple being finished in Draper. This is going to be a truly massive undertaking with nearly 700 volunteers needed during each day of the open house. With just 25 stakes to draw from, this means that we'll [...]
Filed under: Church, Family on November 16th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Voters in three states had the chance to vote on amendments to their state's constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Voters in all three states said "yes" to traditional marriage, Florida by a significant 62-38 margin and Arizona by a 56-44 margin. California was the real focus of the media [...]
Filed under: Church, Politics on November 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Separation of church and state is one of those concepts that is discussed frequently and understood infrequently. Despite ample evidence to the contrary, it has mutated to mean that any and all religious sentiment in the sphere of governance is entirely inappropriate. Not only does this directly conflict with the free speech elements of the [...]
Filed under: Church, Politics on November 2nd, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I've been putting off writing anything about California's Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment to define marriage as one man and one woman. Not only have many other people on both sides, within and without the church, been sharing their feelings (many of them strong), but I had a hard time thinking of what substance [...]
Filed under: Church, Politics on October 30th, 2008 | 15 Comments »
I've had trouble with birthdays the last few years. Every year since I turned twenty-four, it's been harder and harder. The momentum I created of freaking out about birthdays got so bad that I've been referring to this birthday as my twenty-tenth every time anyone asked me how old I was. Today I am thirty. [...]
Filed under: Annabelle, Chloe, Church, Family, Homeownership, Jesse, Life, Marriage, Work on September 24th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
When I left Las Vegas for a new life in Utah, I also left behind several friends. Just prior to moving, I'd had a falling out with one of them that bordered on epic. Since we both had mutual friends and I was the one leaving town, it pretty much cut me off from all [...]
Filed under: Church, Geek, Life on July 12th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Loading ...