One of the noble and great ones has passed on, Elder L. Tom Perry.
As noted in Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune and the UK’s Daily Mail.
I acknowledge that “Las Vegas Mormons With Flair,” is John Mansfield’s beat. However, in the midst of all his Brandon Flowers blogging, it must be pointed out that despite releasing a well-regarded solo album, Bro. Flowers isn’t even having the best month out of the small subset of young, famous Las Vegas Mormons. It’s not even close.
Update: He hit another home run tonight.
Dear Palpatine:
Mrs. MC: Did you tell our son that he could head-butt Jerome [a boy in his preschool class]?
MC: No.
Mrs. MC: Why does he think you told him that? (more…)
Some law professors’ views on how a court is likely to rule on an issue are untainted by exposure to actual courts.
–Thus Ken White
The Boy Scouts of America are slowly succumbing to modernity.
According to recent BSA policy, the above picture is unkind and unsafe, unless the boy is wearing safety glasses and only pointing the super soaker at an approved target on an approved range. Grinning while doing it has not yet been explicitly banned.
The BSA policy is being understandably mocked in the press. (more…)
Yesterday I remembered something my cousin’s husband said twenty-five years ago. He was an Air Force mechanic and would make a twenty-year career of it. He was assigned to the F-117 stealth fighter some number of months before its existence was publicly disclosed in 1988. Immediately before that he was working on F-4 Phantoms, the Vietnam workhorse that the Air Force had been flying since ’63. Sometimes he would marvel at the improvement in some state-of-the-art system, like the brakes, and then learn that it was the same system as used in the F-15 and not so new after all. From the perspective of the Phantom, a lot was new that wasn’t so new.
I changed spark plugs yesterday on a 2002 Chevy Prizm. (more…)
Did he also experience all the small acts of kindness, and service, where people went out of their way to “lift up the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees”? Did he experience the joy that the lonely feel when one reaches out to them to let them know they matter and are cared about? Did he feel the hope restored when we visit someone who is sick or in prison and cheered their hearts? Did he feel the relief of the overwhelmed when someone paused to share their burden with them? Did he feel the relief we feel when someone forgives us of our screwups and mistakes, or when someone shows us undeserved mercy?
-thus Jon Goff. Read the whole thing.
It reminded me of the Royal Largesse theory of the atonement. It gives a Christmas flavor to Easter doctrines.
Sometimes I wonder if there is really any hope for His Majesty.
A man will always be judged, full stop. A person will always be judged, full stop. You will always be judged for everything you do for every second you are doing it.
The judges are God, everyone else, and yourself.
Thing is, you want it. You want to be judged and found worthy.
“Flowers has consistently been the one dragging along his band mates. While they want time off after their typically lengthy world tours, he’s always keen to go higher, further, longer. So he fills the hiatuses with solo projects. This despite the fact that he’s the one with most family — Flowers has three young sons, and talks of ‘maybe one more. But it’s totally up to my wife. I would have ten kids,’ he beams, and that is a precept of his religious faith.” (link)
Tell it, Brother B.
