Reading Scripture After a Faith Transition: The Transfiguration
I gave this sermon at the Las Vegas Community of Christ congregation on February 11, 2018. I have spent a good share of my life immersed in scripture. For most of my teenage...
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Christian Women’s Prayerful Touch
A year or so ago, I was preparing for surgery on my hands. In the two years before this, I had three other hand surgeries, and all went well. But this was the big...
Prayers We Have Loved
A couple months ago, Judy, a longtime friend of Exponent II, sent me an email about a prayer she had heard in a yoga class that she loved. I thought this was a terrific...
Milk Before Meat so Where’s the beef?
When my third child finally weaned at 15 months of age, he seemed to have the flu all-the-time. Diarrhea that would shoot out of the diaper and down his legs at times and smell...
“Because I said so!”
Are you familiar with the old story about the newlywed and the pot roast? Surely you’ve heard it at the beginning of some sacrament meeting talk, somewhere. The newlywed bride is making a roast...
Prayer after a Faith Transition
I remember sitting in my Community of Congregation for the first time. We were a brand new group, all Mormons and former Mormons. There were a few familiar faces and a bunch of unknown...
When the Questions Aren’t There (Thoughts on Tuesday’s Press Conference)
Two Sundays ago, my 3.5 year old daughter had her first day of primary and my 1.5 year old daughter started nursery. They both loved it. My oldest chattered the whole ride home about...
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