Today would be Betsey’s 10th birthday. This is what I wrote on her birthday six years ago.

I closed comments to this year’s post to keep the comments all in one place.

There are many theories about the Atonement. All are at best analogies. What Christ did matters much more than our explanations about it do. Especially on Good Friday, we should probably spend more time at the foot of the cross instead of critiquing concepts and philosophies. (more…)

Christ chose to let himself be in Satan’s power and in the power of the Romans. Its important that he chose, because it made him a willing victim. Its also important that he did not directly choose the garden agony or the cross. These were the choices of his tormentors. If he had chosen them himself, he would have been willing but not a victim. (more…)

My review of The Great Divorce from the perspective of a Latter-day Saint is up. I think you’ll like it. Let me know what you think.

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Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel as played for priesthood meeting by a convert aunt of Sally DeFord who played piano for silent movies: link.

I know many Americans think of Christmas as a single day and like to clear away the trappings of the season well before the fifth of January, but that is sheer barbarism, if you ask me, morally only a few steps removed from human sacrifice, cannibalism, or golf.

This is the time of year for Christmas devotions. This year my thoughts have been on the impulse to serve the needy that we have at Christmas. We don’t have it at Easter. My thoughts have also been on the Christ child. The religious significance of the grown Christ, on the cross and in the garden, is obvious. But what did Christ do for us as a bare baby?
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Not only will it be like this, it must be like this. (more…)

Read this interesting interview with a woman who realized that her recovered memories of child abuse were false. (more…)

Here is a short theory of the atonement. (more…)

These two reviews of Toy Story II and III hit me hard. I want, and I do not want, my children to grow up. (more…)

Today would be Betsey’s 9th birthday. This is what I wrote on her birthday five years ago. (more…)

Shucks, it were about time. This durn nice-guy pretense jist ain’t natural.

The Saints know: entering into an economy of covenants that draws all its power from God’s gift of his Son, and from the Son’s submission to his Father.

Vertical herbs.