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This summer, I’ve been re-reading John Adams, the brilliant biography by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough.  This time, I’ve found refuge and relief from the current idiocy coming out of Washington.  I commend the book to all of you who may be having similar thoughts about current events.  It will do wonders to calm your troubled hearts in the tumult of opinions and the war of words. If it weren’t so true, the attached cartoon would be funnier.  There was no attempt to spell out every contingency that would arise in America when the writers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States laid it all out in writing.  Such was never their intent.  Instead, they relied upon the moral purity of the people who would come after them.  Yes, moral purity.  Thomas Jefferson, holding the pen that wrote the Declaration of Independence, later wrote:  “Experience hath shewn,... Read the rest of this entry »

In the 2009 October General Conference, Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve gave a talk titled “Moral Discipline.” In this talk he made a fascinating statement that has stayed with me in the intervening months: “The societies in which many of us live have for more than a generation failed to foster moral discipline. They have taught that truth is relative and that everyone decides for himself or herself what is right. Concepts such as sin and wrong have been condemned as “value judgments.” As the Lord describes it, “Every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god” (D&C 1:16). As a consequence, self-discipline has eroded and societies are left to try to maintain order and civility by compulsion. The lack of internal control by individuals breeds external control by governments. One columnist observed that “gentlemanly behavior [for example, once] protected women from coarse behavior. Today, we expect... Read the rest of this entry »

Easter is a month away and my thoughts are turning to one of the most sacred events in the history of humanity. While our culture and society today has created a more commercialized version of Easter as that of easter egg hunts, the easter bunny, and an excuse to munch on chocolate (as well as [...] AKPC_IDS += "157951,";Popularity: unranked [?] Read More →

The following dialogue is occurring over at TILM’s blog. 6 Responses to this post. Posted by Timothy Berman on January 12, 2010 at 7:40 pm So, would you agree that if someone posted the following Billboard message, that it is okay and correct? Christians celebrate and worship Human Sacrifice as an appeasement to a better life. Reply This first comment [...] AKPC_IDS += "124555,";Popularity: unranked [?] Read More →

A recent news article appeared in the Idaho State Journal. This article focuses on billboards that are appearing in Pocatello, Idaho. The subject of these billboards – to promote the long held modern Christian Evangelical perspective that Mormon’s are not Christians. This is typically provisioned with the mantra “We are not attacking the Mormon’s, we [...] AKPC_IDS += "124389,";Popularity: unranked [?] Read More →