Putting Social Media in its Place…

I’m telling you right now, I love Twitter. I like having my news sources all combined into one streamlined place. I like funny people. I like simplicity and minimalism. Twitter gives me all of that. I also like Pinterest. I like pictures. I like keeping track of things. I like curating good ideas. Again, I

Maybe My New Favorite Thing About Captain Moroni…

Some weeks ago as I was studying for a lesson I was to teach, I noticed a small little detail about Captain Moroni. I didn’t say much about it in the lesson that day, but I came upon it again when I was studying for an institute lesson I was teaching just a few days

Making People Feel Bad is Not Our Job…

Sometimes we think we’re helping when we’re not. I know I do. Sometimes my wife will have to sweetly say, “Please, stop helping” and she’ll put the word “helping” in air quotes…Some of my help makes more of a mess… One of my friends posted the following quote from Elder Jeffery R. Holland on her

“Best Practices” for an LDS Blogger…

One of my buddies from “over the mountain” wrote a very interesting and well-written post about being a witness. Before you read any more here, you really ought to take a few minutes and read his post. Won’t take long. I’ll wait… There. And on we go… Really, the main idea in my friend’s article

LDS General Conference Memes (the Problem and the Solution)…

A recent phenomenon is that moments–literally moments–after a speaker has spoken in General Conference, someone somewhere has created a meme that is ready for sharing, posting, pinning, Insta-ing, Tweeting, etc… In fact, in some cases the speaker probably hasn’t said “Amen” before they’re inspired one-liners are traveling virtually and globally. I like it. It makes it