January 2008

For years I have mused about the significance of receiving “His image in [our] countenances” (Alma 5:14). This is a marker for being spiritually born of God and having a …

The Book of Mormon contains some of the greatest insights into the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement found anywhere in sacred literature. It also teaches us about evil and …

Conversion might look quite different from the outside from what it feels like on the inside. The Book of Mormon blesses us with an extraordinary opportunity to study both an …

I remember when I was a student at BYU. My fellow students and I enjoyed frequent and glorious sacrament meetings, firesides, and devotionals. Our youthful openness was met with heaven’s …

Bertrand Russell made the terse observation that “few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.” We may vary in what we hate, but most …

As we know, the Book of Mormon was written specifically with us in mind. So it is noteworthy that it has many passages about Satan. I suspect that God wants …

Nancy and I recently watched the documentary Endurance, about British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 excursion to cross the Antarctic continent on foot. Only a day's journey from his final …

I suppose that most fish don’t have any idea what it is like to breathe air. They can’t imagine any way of “breathing” other than the one they use. The same …

There are many ways the Book of Mormon seeks to rescue us from the latter-day philosophies of men. “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew …