October 17, 2008 – 1:44 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!I had a conversation a few months ago about this question. Those that I were discussing this with made the argument that the “heathen,” the term my correspondent used for those who’ve never [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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October 1, 2008 – 8:54 pm
My wife and I had our second child, a baby boy, this last Sunday - 7lbs, 6oz., 20 inches. Mom and Baby are all doing great! We couldn’t be more happy. Here are some pictures:
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman [...]
September 15, 2008 – 2:59 pm
President Monson spoke at a regional meeting in the Conference Center yesterday, as reported by the Deseret News. The focus of his counsel was to put our homes in order. This is wise counsel since the Dow dropped 500 points today, the biggest drop since 9/11. We are living in troubled times, and I suspect [...]
I just posted my review of the Disney/Pixar movie WALL-E over at Millennial Star. See it here. Be forewarned - I didn’t like it much.
Update (7/14/08): And, of course, since the issue is environmentalism, it eroded quickly.
Mark Greene posted a comment a few days ago on my multi-part paper The Genesis of the Round Dance that I thought was very insightful:
In thinking further about your interesting paper on the genesis of the ring dance, I remembered that there is a marvelous example of a prayer circle and therefore a type of [...]
The Prophet Joseph gave a sermon just a few months before his martyrdom in which he said:
The Bible says, “I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord; and he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the [...]
I received this LDS Gem today in my inbox:
When you come to the temple you will love your family with a deeper love than you have ever felt before. The temple is about families. . . . It extends to parents, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, forebears, and especially our grandchildren! This is the [...]
February 4, 2008 – 9:39 pm
Today there was a great post on Times & Seasons about President Beck’s talk at the last General Conference called “Mothers Who Know“, and specifically focusing on how to make our homes as a temple. Julie Smith makes some good points about how we can integrate temple teachings into our home environment.
But I also [...]