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Inspired by Utah: A Warm and Encouraging Welcome for My Temporary Return

I’ve been in Salt Lake City, Utah for a few days as part of my transition to an exciting new job with a very young and promising consumer products company….

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Sights from a Trip to Israel and Jordan

One of the advantages of working in China is having long national holidays like the Chinese New Year, making it easier to take interesting trips to other lands. There’s a…

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Seeing the Hand of the Lord: Perspective and Timing

On Friday and Saturday, we went to Chicago primarily motivated by the desire to help one of my sons and his wife go to the Chicago Temple while my wife…

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Send Your Pixels on a Mission: Donate Great Photos to the Church

LDS photographers, your photos of LDS-related sites and events might be helpful, along with photos of people. Church publications, including websites, could benefit from some of the great photos you…

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Checking Out City Creek Mall: What Was All That Fuss About?

After all the grumbling and accusations I’ve heard from critics of the Church over the City Creek Center (the big new mall in downtown Salt Lake City), I put on…

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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…

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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…

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Scenes from Salt Lake City, Nov. 2010

Here are a few photos from my recent visit to Salt Lake and a couple from 2009, for those of who haven’t been there. Not a fair sampling of the…

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Cement at Teotihuacan

For those of you interested in the issue of cement in the Book of Mormon, here are some photos I took earlier this year at Teotihuacan near Mexico City, where…

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