Category: Religion

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

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

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

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

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

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