photo taken on the Summer Solstice in 2013 on Mt. Timpanogos after sunrise  Last year on the Summer Solstice I climbed to the top of  M...

Today is the Fourth of July. My wife mentioned to me this morning that she prefers to say Happy Independence Day instead of Happy Fourth of...

One hundred and seventy years ago today, the Prophet Joseph Smith at the age of thirty-eight, and his brother Hyrum Smith (age forty-four)...

.. Intercession is the act of interceding (intervening or mediating) between two parties. In Christian religious usage, the term intercessi...

In a dream I saw myself in the middle of the ocean at night. The water and waves were black as tar. I wasn't on a ship, necessarily,.. b...

  Below is a painting entitled "View of Scheveningen Sands." by the 17th century Dutch master Hendrick van Anthonissen. For the ...

This morning I woke up with images in my head from the symbolic book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The story centers around Willy Wo...

Below is photo of an advertisement that appeared in last Sunday's Deseret News. A collection of past songs sung by the Mormon Tabernacl...

The restoration began with a young boy going into nature, alone, and kneeling in a sacred space. He doesn’t get an audience with the Lord u...

I wanted to share some of these thoughts and post on Mother's Day but was so worn out from trying to do half of what my wife normally do...

  In fall of 1983, Hugh Nibley gave a controversial  commencement address at the Brigham Young University. He was the professor emeritus o...

On the South East corner of our house, we have an aspen tree. It is a columnar aspen which can grow very tall, and very fast. It has now re...

While one might think that small changes are insignificant,  we know that over time these changes slowly add up to big changes. The Deuter...

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neith...

 Of all weeks in the year, from Palm Sunday to Easter Morning is the most sacred and holy. Unfortunately colored eggs, chocolate bunnies and...

 When we need to confront or cope with a difficult situation we use the idiom, ‘Face the music’ . To ‘face the music’ involves a situation w...