Posts under ‘religion’

I am offering the world my list of priorities. These are the things, and to some extent the order of priority, that I take into consideration when making some of the choices I make. Believe it or not, different priorities will leap to the top of the list that seem rather low. That is because [...]

I found a second blog I was reading that I will no longer be following. This makes two in just under a year where the author moved sufficiently (and consistently) away from the reasons I would read their blogs into areas that I don’t agree, feel that the individual is wrong, and where the individual [...]

According to this article Tony Hillerman died. Hillerman is the writer of a bunch of mystery books set on the Native American reservations. My parents really liked reading him, especially since they moved to southwestern Colorado near the Ute Reservation and working on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona with the LDS church. On the sad [...]

WARNING: This post contains overtly religious material.
For more than fifteen years I’ve read and re-read the Book of Mormon over and over and over again, year after year. I don’t know how long it takes me to get through the book, though I do know I read it at least two or three times a [...]

One of the things that bug me quite a bit is to pick up a newspaper and have the headlining story (first story, largest title) be about something that doesn’t matter, today, tomorrow, or ever, and yet receives the highest and most important spot in the newspaper for who knows what reason. I’ve begun to think that this is the newspapers way of aligning itself with the public by attaching a pop-tart like Britney or whoever is popular at the moment to the front page to increase the readership of the newspaper. In this case, though, since I am at BYU and I occasionally catch the Daily Universe (gag me), and they occasionally do something right, I was caught a bit off guard by their headline piece today.