In Aristotle’s view of epistemology, to know something meant understanding something in preferably four different ways. Aristotle wrote that “we do not have knowledge of a thing until we have grasped its why, that is to say, its cause.” It meant understanding the following causes There are often many times that people want to only focus …

For the past couple of weeks, I have contemplated the idea of restoring the church. As a member of the Church of Jesus of Latter-Day Saints, I believe a restoration of the church was needed. here are the three questions that led me to that conclusion These questions were fundamental for me to understand in …

Recently, on his Facebook page, my friend Ben Spackman posted about the interpretation of scripture(post below). This post was perplexing to me in some ways. In many ways I agree with what he is saying. However, in other ways I do not. In his post he lays out three stages to understanding scripture. Stage one …

Over the years I have seen many people leave my religion(and religion in general) to follow their own path. While this saddens me a great deal I still love those that have chosen to leave. Many people have asked me why I stay. The answer is simple really. My prayers have been answered too many …

Being an open and unapologetic Christian often brings mockery and hostility. I’ve seen a lot of it, especially in my line of work in academia and the sciences. I remember a colleague of mine told me “you’re a very intelligent man, how can you believe in such obvious falsehoods. It’s not reasonable.” I’ve heard all …

Yesterday I had the opportunity to help the mission with transfers. We left at 4:00am to go pickup a sister that was starting her mission and bring down an elder serving in her area. We left the city and were up in the mountains an hour later. I love going in the mountains. It is …

Some thoughts on faith from my scripture study today. Faith = trust in things we cannot quantify immediatly or in other words, things not seen. Faith is a proactive principle( 2 Nephi 2:14, Alma 32:28 ) it is impossible to have faith without being proactive and searching for it. This is why Ether said that …

For those not of my faith, seminary is a four-year program for high school-aged youth. Every weekday during the school year the youth attend a one-hour class about the scriptures. Every year they rotate the topics. They rotate between Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and covenants. The latter two being volumes …