I’ve seen this dozens of times on Fast & Testimony Sundays, and now there’s a name for it.  Link. Youtube meme.

Our Bishop pointed out to us that modern tithing settlement doesn’t have much of a practical purpose. Back in the day, dropping off some fraction of a beef cow in a tithing envelope every Sunday was impractical, so you needed some settling up where you brought in two steers and a heifer, and the Bishop gave you back a lamb and a few bales of hay to make it all square. Tithing settlement is a boost for the Bishop since he gets to interact with his non-”problem” members, but that’s about it. Instead, tithing settlement has–dare we say it?–a liturgical value. (more…)

I had a mission Christman like Bookslingers’. Our mission Christmases were mostly lonely times, but God gave us a gift on my second one. (more…)

We were in a South American mission. I was the District Leader of a remote district, hours away from the mission office and any other district. (more…)

Integrity is the same virtue in time as love is in space. Covenants and stewardship are the union of those two faces of the virtue.

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)

On the sweetness of Mormon life.

The sacrament speaker is burly. You recall that he used to run with a biker gang before he found Jesus. His subject is “behind the scenes at the youth Pioneer Trek.” He explains vividly why saran-wrapping the toilet holes in porta-potties must be done before you haul them across jouncing mountain tracks. This lesson, he avers, was learned through sad experience.

After, a friend tells you that she brought an investigator today. Neither you nor she say anything more.

I love this Church.

I have fallen in love with the Mormons’ names,
Ernesto Saenz and Young Adcock . . .

Stephen Vincent Benet should have gone with the youth to do baptism for the dead. (more…)

You’ll want to read this dispatch from the front lines, by the father of a young teen-age LDS woman. It gets what modesty is about. (more…)

On the sweetness of Mormon life (more…)

On the sweetness of Mormon life–

Your alarm sounds in the dark of the early morning. It’s 5 AM. It’s Saturday. It’s your birthday. (more…)

This General Conference twice introduced me to heroes. (more…)

My three-year old told me that God is mean.  It seems that she prayed that He would make our house fly, and He didn’t. (more…)

On the sweetness of Mormon life. (more…)