I Think, Therefore I Write

  *I gave a talk at church today and a few people have asked for a copy of it. I decided to post it here, minus the lame intro and nervous j...

Eight years ago, I watched from a distance as my secondary hometown, Payson, Utah, got a new temple. I attended the ground-breaking , open h...

There once lived a young boy who lived in a simple log cabin with his family. He worked hard alongside his siblings and parents and was g...

August is just about over, and you know what that means: alternating panic and self-flagellation for wasting another summer. Except, I...

There are a lot of ways to chronicle your life, from simply keeping track of ages and dates to lumping experiences into categories like ...

I've been to a lot of YSA events—both spiritual and not, but I'm talking about the spiritual ones at the moment—and you can almost a...

The Payson Utah Temple dedication was on Sunday. I've debated whether I should blog about the experience, and almost didn't because ...

It was during a five-minute break from my evening ASL class that I got the news. Payson was getting a temple. And it wasn't folklore t...

It's a truth universally acknowledged that single twenty-somethings are the red-headed stepchildren of Mormon culture. Each family ward ...

It took about five years, but I can finally check off "read the entire Old Testament" off my bucket list. Given the length of ...

When I go on my walks, I'm rarely in people mode. I pay attention to the audio coming from my iPod and whatever season we're being b...

I've talked a lot about the virtues of boldness, but it also has a dark side. Too much boldness can lead to recklessness and burnout at ...

Religion is a major piece of our world's history. During most of the time humans have inhabited the earth, they were believers. Beliefs ...

Elder Holland's talks are consistently among my favorites. I always feel a little cheated when he speaks in the priesthood session inste...

Today my ward was combined with another ward and my bishopric was released. It's the fifth time in two years my ward has been shuffled t...

I like having an 8-5 job. I like the stability and predictability (try saying that five times fast) that comes with it. I like waking up at ...

I'll admit, I was relieved to find that the church is just as true in Salt Lake as it is in Provo, even though the 50-mile dividing line...