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A Chinese Fruit Vendor Hunted Me Down

I’ve had two similar experiences in the past few weeks from Chinese fruit vendors. There are about 8 different fruit vendors within a 5-minute walk from our apartment. There are…

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Bringing a Missionary Home

I’d like to share a few tips for parents with children on missions, especially regarding the final and sometimes difficult details of actually getting them safely home. We’ve sent four…

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Kudos to the Shanghai Mamas

There’s a group in Shanghai called the Shanghai Mamas. These are expat (foreign) women from all over the world living in Shanghai, organizing together to help each other and do…

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Lawyers With Souls: Sang-Ick Han and Unexpected Help in Law School

I apologize for once quipping that the “Chicken Soup” book, Chicken Soup for the Lawyer’s Soul, was pulled from the press once the publisher realized that lawyers actually don’t have…

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An Eve I Like: The New Temple Movie

On Thursday while visiting family in Utah, my wife and I went to the Mount Timpanogos Temple in American Fork and saw the recently released new movie that is used…

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New Edition of the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture

Great news! Yesterday a new edition of the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture became available online at the Maxwell Institute. You can download the entire…

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Recycled Horse News?

I received an email this morning giving the exciting news of horse bones being found in Carlsbad, California that predate the arrival of Spaniards in the area. Could the horses…

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Mormons Who Leave and Come Back: Insights from the 2013 FAIR Conference

Blair Hodges provided some notes from the recent FAIR Conference held in Provo (transcripts to be available soon). On day two of this conference, there were several speakers who had…

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A Limited, Finite God?

“Do Mormons believe in a limited, finite God, not the all-powerful, unlimited God of the Bible?” Ever get that question? Sometimes we are accused of worshipping a limited, finite God…

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For Reference Only: A Serving Suggestion from a Shanghai Restaurant

For lunch last week I strolled into a nice restaurant on Henan Street a little north of the Bund Center where I work and decided it was time to try…

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