Mormon Quotes - A Short Faithful Devotional Podcast

  Obedience is a difficult principle for me to understand, particularly since I have spent so much time learning about blind obedience through psychological research, and to see how this concept can be manipulated by using natural parts of our humanity. There is much research exposing those who perpetuate fraud. In Utah there is sadly…Read more The Passive and Thoughtless Following of the Orders or Dictates of a Higher Authority

  When I was growing up there were various individuals that I would see in church who I would idolize.  I felt that these people had it all figured out and I was inspired by their incredible examples. However later down the line I got to know some of them a little bit better and…Read more The Same Person Wherever You Are

As you have probably come to expect from this program, I often focus on topics that relate to diversity, harm, and changing our paradigms. That is simply because this is the place I am in my life, and even though I may focus on things that others may not, I feel it is just as…Read more Over Time It Will Change You

  Elder Uchtdorf opened one of his talks by discussing the story of rip van winkle, which is a story of a man who sleeps through his life, and misses an incredible period of time. He then followed up this story by asking each of us whether we are sleeping through the restoration. We live…Read more Sleeping Through the Restoration

  Using a song from Josh Woodward, we put the story from Elder W. Craig Zwick. I hope you enjoy this episode.

  We are at a fascinating period of Mormon history, where various questions are rising in the minds of many members of the church. One hot button topic is the idea of ordaining women to the priesthood. I will not speak very much about my own feelings on this issue, although I feel that these…Read more What Other Authority Can It Be?

  There is a fairly esoteric topic from LDS history called the law of adoption, which I find to be fascinating. I will leave the opportunity to you to look up that history in order to learn a little more about this practice, but my understanding and simple explanation is that as God had provided…Read more Line Upon Line

  I once hear the book “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” quoted in a church setting. I have very serious critiques of this book, but I think that one thing which comes up when gender is discussed is the idea that we are different from each other. The descriptions that are usually…Read more What Are You Thinking?

  I am not ashamed to say that I hated junior high with every fiber of my being. There are various reasons for this, but one is the amount of cruelty that can come from such little people. I mean you are putting individuals who are not very well developed, be that emotionally or physically,…Read more Love and Treat All People with Kindness and Civility