A note on politics

I don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but I’m going to be gone before the November election, and yet I’m encouraging people to vote on this or that (vote Obama! vote yes on California proposition 8!). Don’t worry. I’m a permanent absentee voter. I will in fact be perfectly capable of voting in this election. All [...]

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Save the Family

Joy Saunders Lundberg and Janice Kapp Perry have teamed up to write a song called “Save the Family,” and a video has been created with this song in the background and posted on YouTube. Its primary purpose is to spread the word about the importance of the family and to support California Proposition 8 this [...]

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T–minus 20 days and counting…

That’s right. In 20 days I will be in the MTC. That’s crazy. I don’t even have luggage yet (yeah, I really need to get cracking on that one). This week has been a flurry of unproductivity. Well, I went to the temple again on Tuesday and I consider that VERY productive. And I’ll say, [...]

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be firm

Elder Ballard has counseled members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to write about their beliefs on the internet, to share these beliefs with others. I think this is a great way to get correct information out there, so that when others look up the Church on a search engine they find [...]

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Ecstatic in the Poison

…The white clouds tumbled down our streets pursued by spellbound children who chased the most distorting clouds, ecstatic in the poison. Andrew Hudgins, “In,” Ecstatic in the Poison I promise you, four posts in a day is highly unusual for me and probably won’t be repeated any time soon. But I have one more thing [...]

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the hottest places in hell…

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, remain neutral.” –Dante In political debates, I have often remained silent–or, at best, wishy-washy–when the majority of people around me disagree with my own beliefs. And then there are debates in which I don’t really know how I feel, [...]

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