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When Engineers Err: My Favorite Story from General Conference
Jan. 2019 update: Sadly, the story as told has major gaps, raising multiple red flags. A post at MormonDiscussions lists multiple issues. At the moment I don’t see a plausible…
The Hope of the Resurrection: Renewed Awareness from Two Painful Experiences in One Day
On the Wednesday before Easter (March 28), two shocking events gave me renewed reason to ponder the power and reality of Christ’s victory over death. That day was perhaps my…
An International Church with More Visibly International Apostles
A familiar face for longtime members of the Church in Shanghai and the Asia Area in general has just been called as an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ…
Where Horses Can Take You, and My Quest for Li Jing (李荆)
Li Jing, China’s Greatest Long Distance Rider and the Subject of My New Quest One of the great things about publishing articles on a blog or at places like Meridian…
The Church’s New Policy on Personal Interviews in the Church and New Guidance on Preventing Abuse: Welcome Steps in a Messy World
The Church just announced important new steps taken to reduce the risk of abuse in the Church, including an important change in the way interviews are done. I think it’s…
When a Victim of Abuse Cries For Help: The Perspective Needed to Be a Modern Good Samaritan
My previous post on the horrifying abuse scandal involving a former president of the Missionary Training Center resulted in valuable feedback from an expert on abuse and a former victim…
My Take on the Joseph L. Bishop Scandal, and Steps We Can Take to Better Help Victims and Reduce the Threat of Abuse in the Church
I’ve struggled with grief and anger for the past couple of days after reading reports regarding a former mission president of the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, Joey L….
Jimmer Fredette, the “Lonely Master,” Might Be Doing Better and Doing More in China than the Deseret News Thinks
Salt Lake City’s Deseret News recently published a thoughtful, nicely written, but rather downbeat article about China’s most popular basketball player, Jimmer Fredette, the star who once stunned US crowds…
The Broken Tooth: Guest Post from Sister Deb Roundy, New Missionary in Vanuatu
One of Shanghai’s most interesting and famous foreigners, Debra Roundy from Idaho, has left Shanghai to serve with her husband, Carlos Roundy, as a missionary couple in Vanuatu. She was…
Worse Than I Thought: Apologies for My Mistake about the CES Letter and Joseph’s Cosmology
In my previous post, “Joseph Smith and the Concept of Multiple Inhabited Worlds: Just Simple Borrowing from Others?,” I made a serious blunder when I criticized the CES Letter regarding…
