Author: H. Wallace Goddard

Wally Goddard is a retired professor of Family Life having served in Arkansas and Alabama. He developed programs on personal well-being, marriage, and parenting. He is well known for his many creative family programs, including The Marriage Garden, The Parenting Journey, and Blueprint for Happiness. Wally has authored or co-authored several books including Between Parent and Child, The Soft-Spoken Parent, and Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage. He has been recognized by his colleagues with several awards including the Outstanding Family Life Educator Award. Wally and his wife, Nancy, have three adult children, fourteen grandchildren, and have cared for many foster children over the years. Wally describes Nancy as the finest human being he has ever known.

The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #5: Are We Not All Beggars?

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 great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, … Read more

The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #4: The One R of Repentance

In the Church it seems that we have formulized repentance: recognition, remorse, relating (confessing), restitution, resolution, reformation, realization (see William J. Critchlow, Jr., BYU Speeches, April 28, 1964).

I’m sure that, with modest resolve, we could find far more R’s … Read more

The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #3: Laws of Survival

Barbara Keil, Guest Author

A popular television show teaches us that if you want to be a “survivor”, your goal is to be the last one standing after you have voted off all of your fellow teammates. Numerous other so-called … Read more

The Book of Mormon, A Latter-day Corrective #2: Mighty Changes

For psychologists and regular humans, one of the most interesting topics in the world is “How do we change?” We all wrestle with this and related questions: How do we break old habits? How do we nurture healthier relationships? How … Read more

The Book of Mormon, a Latter-day Corrective

I offer a challenge to members of the Church throughout the world
and to our friends everywhere
to read or reread the Book of Mormon.

(Gordon B. Hinckley, “A Testimony Vibrant and True,” Ensign, August 2005, p. 6)… Read more

Making Peace with Ourselves: Some Kinds of Esteem Matter More than Others

Finding a way to get along with ourselves is tricky business. I naturally have more concern for my own well being than for anyone else’s. But I am also at war with myself. I disappoint myself and fall short of … Read more

Charitable Dialogue

Sometimes I wonder what tricks and ploys Satan especially uses against Latter-day Saints. I suspect that one of Satan’s most treacherous tools with Latter-day Saints is to have us advance worthy purposes in unworthy ways. That is exactly what Satan … Read more