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March 2017

March 10, 2017

What Vox got wrong about Jon Huntsman

Why did Trump pick Huntsman as Ambassador to Russia? The reasons are many. On March...

March 05, 2016

Ammon, before Trump

On social media I passed along a quip that, while Donald Trump is applying to be...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

What Should We Take Away From Slate’s Missionary Health Article?

We posted recently about the Slate piece by Mark Joseph Stern about missionary health care,...

October 02, 2015

The saving habit: 123 weeks and counting

See the crazy world going by in front of the LA Temple there? See the...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Thank You, Elder Scott: Memories of an MTC Moment

Richard G. Scott was the first General Authority I ever met. While I was in...

January 2015

January 12, 2015

Doubting at Zion’s Gate

Through happenstance, two of my recent reads synergistically centered on doubt and the thresholds of...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Mormons and Basketball in the Philippines

“There are good Mormons, rogue Mormons, drunk Mormons, polygamy Mormons. But one thing they all...

February 19, 2014

Missionary Work in the Pre-Correlation Age, My Grandfather’s “Mormon Doctrine,” and Mormonism’s (Un)Systematic Theology

My grandfather took a train to Toronto, Canada, to start his LDS mission in 1948....