Addiction, Freedom, and Satan

The title of this post makes pretty clear where this is headed. I recently listened to a “Public Service Announcement” at the end of a Hidden Brain podcast episode about resolutions. The podcast had someone on their staff record a message that he would like to share with youth about smoking. Today the dangers of

Agency and Mistakes: Was Brigham Young Wrong?

Let’s start with an assumption. What if Brigham Young incorrectly instituted the practice of the priesthood ban for black people? We always think in this way that God can do anything, however He wants to. Why didn’t He fix the priesthood ban for blacks issue immediately after Brigham Young if it was in fact a

Black and White and Adam and Eve

In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were given two commandments. Multiply and replenish the earth. Do not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In the church we are familiar with this dichotomy. Commandment one could not be completed without disobeying commandment two. What were Adam and Eve to

100th Post

100 posts!  I thought it warranted a special post.  You never know when you start something like a blog if you’ll actually stick to it.  Here I am a year and a half and 100 posts later, with hundreds still to go. I figured as part of my first 100 posts I could mention the

Letter to a Sinner

I write this with as much humility as possible.  Fully knowing and understanding my weaknesses have given me perspective.  It is my faults and errors that make me feel like I can write this letter.  I remember when I came back to church I was asked to not take the sacrament for three weeks.  It

One True Church

I initially tried to write this post with the hope of using scripture and doctrine and principles to convince anyone who would read that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is God’s true church, restored from the meridian of time on the same principles that Christ established while He was here.  I have

The Chance of Faith

One Sunday I was in my car with a friend, CJ Matthews.  We were driving after church to go do something.  I can’t remember what it was.  Visit someone or give a blessing or something that like. A few minutes into the drive I realized I was out of gas. I remembered I’d been out