Month: October 2011
Saved By Grace, After All We Can Do? Inisghts from Paul in Ephesians 6
I’ve encountered many Christians whose theology makes them struggle with basic LDS views like the importance of keeping the commandments and the concern that we as Christians can fall from…
A Consecrated Brain: Greg Smith’s Intellectual Journey in Dealing with the Challenge of Polygamy in the Early Church
One of the best sources on the complex topic of Mormon polygamy is “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Plural Marriage* (*but were afraid to ask)” by Greg Smith….
“The Fullness of the Godhead Bodily”
A timely reminder from Paul is found in Colossians 2:8-9: 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments…
Engineering Professors Witnessing for Christ
I’m in Minneapolis this week with thousands of other chemical engineers. It’s been a very busy week filled with some small and large miracles along the way. On Tuesday morning,…
Coaching Those Who Struggle in Callings
The Church is a volunteer organization, so the quality and quantity of work done at any level by volunteers in their callings will vary and can often disappoint. How we…
Understanding Grace and Works: Grasping Prayer Might Help
As I struggle with the blindness of some ministers and their followers who condemn Mormons as non-Christians because we allegedly require “works” like following Christ and trying to do the…
The Church in Korea
While in Korea last week, my wife and I attended an old inner city unit of the Church in a hilly downtown area. There we met Brother Cho and his…
Beauty in the Details: A Car Wash Analogy
The photo below, unmodified except for resizing and adding my name, was taken during a car wash in Appleton, Wisconsin, back when we still had cars. Now we’re carless, living…
Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s Fingerprints of God
A new friend in Shanghai lent me her copy of Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s Fingerprnts of God: What Science Is Learning About the Brain and Spiritual Experience (New York: Riverhead Books,…
President Monson Reminds Me of My Wife
Here in Shanghai our branch got to view General Conference this weekend, along with the reast of eastern Asia. What a delight! While listening to President Monson’s powerful sermon in…
