Servants to folly, creation, and the Lord JESUS CHRIST. We endeavor to give satisfaction
My wife has been ill lately and I have updated my view that I have no patience for nurse-maiding. It would be closer to the truth that I have no talent for it. Perhaps even closer to the truth to say that I lack the confidence for it. Good nurse maids have a kind of […]
If our society s understanding of the virtues and vices of manhood are bad, womanhood is worse. Our society is deeply feminized so, as one would expect, there is no clear understanding or term for vicious womanhood. But surprisingly, there is also no clear understanding or term for virtuous womanhood either. Men are bad and woman [ ]
My understanding and our understanding (society s, the saints , America s) of male and female virtue and vice has even more gaps in it than normal. The normal pattern for gaps in knowledge is to have a strong idea of a virtue and its opposing vice, while having almost no concept at all of the opposing virtue [ ]
There once was a little aquatic turtle who lived by a small lake in the woods. The turtle happily swam in the waters eating minnows and basked on a rock. But one day it got an ambition. The little turtle decided to change the world. Since its world consisted of the small body of water [ ]
You listen to a nice Sacrament talk from your daughter on the worth of souls and in praise of beauty. You also crave pickles and that deeply-charred fat on a good rich steak. By Priesthood hour, this craving has mysteriusly transmuted to wanting to hear President Hinckley s voice again. So when you get home, you [ ]
There once was a short little candle getting even shorter as she burned. But my flame loves me! she cried, and no doubt she was right.
I noticed something in reading the scriptures. There seems to be a distinct pattern where the kings of Israel and Judah sometimes start out well but always end with a caveat. It s not just David and Bathsheba and Solomon and his idolatrous wives, it seems to be pretty consistent. Whereas the Nephite and Lamanite kings [ ]
Out in a rough rural county there was a rascally young man who spent his evenings and late nights drinking and getting in fights at dive bars and roadhouses and collections of trucks pulled up around a bonfire out somewhere on a patch of dirt. It was generally a rascally county with its share of [ ]
Any ideas what this phrase means? 10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the Lord, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass. [ ]
Greg Matsen had a discussion with Jacob Hansen about Strong s new book, Torn. This was far more enlightening than anything else I have heard about Strong s book. The thing that hit me the hardest was Jacob explaining how we are often wasting our time explaining things the way we have for the last two hundred [ ]
Most of the dumb boomer solutions to social problems amount to why don t you simply unilaterally establish an enforceable cooperative equilibrium -thus EDJCB Young Mr. Frog went a courtin but in that region and at that time there were no eligible young misses in the Animal Kingdom who were interested in Mr. Frog. In frustration he [ ]