Tag Archives: family

Children Are An Heritage of the Lord

If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!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 [...]

Pōwhiri and Hongi of New Zealand’s Māori: a Sacred Ritual

The title is a bit of a mouthful, but let me explain.
I have been a ballroom dancer since I was about 12 years old, or about 15 years.  It has been quite an experience being involved with this subculture of ballroom dance, which has made up a large portion of my life.  During the summer [...]

Make Your Home a Temple

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 [...]

Computer Technology Given to Mankind for Temple Work

Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve gave the devotional address at the beginning of Education Week at Brigham Young University today.  Deseret News reported on his talk.
His talk was mainly about gaining knowledge through a lifetime of learning, especially spiritual knowledge.  He used the example of Michael Phelps Olympic gold records [...]

Blowing out Birthday Candles

As most people know, it is a tradition in many parts of the world to bake up a birthday cake for a friend or family member celebrating a birthday.  Typically this cake is decorated nicely and topped with birthday candles, one for every year of the celebrant’s life.  When the time comes to eat the [...]

“WALL-E, the Religion of Environmentalism” at Millennial Star

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.

Added ShareThis to TempleStudy.com

I have added a new feature to TempleStudy.com.  It is called ShareThis.  This is a really great tool for sharing things about the temple that you read here with your friends, family, coworkers, associates, ward members, and anyone else you might like to pass along these articles to.  Each article now has a little green [...]

A Reply to Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare once wrote a sonnet about love, probably the best-known among the 154 he wrote - Sonnet 18. I heard a beautiful song on YouTube this morning sung by David Gilmour and put to the words of this sonnet. It inspired me to write this reply:
What would thy [...]

The Temple is About Families

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 [...]