Yesterday, my wife and I attended funeral services for her grandfather. It was a lovely service, with beautiful music and
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Prevenient Grace and the Book of Mormon
Often, I am told that because I am a Latter-day Saint, I believe that I must add my works to
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My wife and I are preparing to teach a Temple Preparation class. Here are our notes for lesson 1. Lesson
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I was reading Alma 40 today, and felt that I would better understand what the author was saying if I
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I have a thought to share related to government and legal philosophy. First, though, there is a caveat. I’m not
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Our society values efficiency. That seems to be one of the hallmarks of the technological and industrial revelations: we can
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Salmon Khan is an entrepreneur who developed the incredible website, www.khanacademy.org. The website had thousands of instructional videos related to
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During my recent readings in both C.S. Lewis’s Pereandra and the scriptures, I’ve made a list of what I believe
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In Perelandra, Ransom meets a woman on Venus who is the Eve of her world, and I just read the
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We read in the scriptures, “Men are that they might have joy.” What does this mean? Does this mean that
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