A Latter-day Voice

I recently worked my first Sudoku puzzle. If you’re not familiar, Sudoku puzzles have nine rows of nine digits each, organized into nine 3 x...

As I think about my membership in the LDS church (nearly 37 years now), I realize that I have been on quite a path. Although there are times...

I attended a performance of Rob Gardner’s The Lamb of God performed by the Michigan Concert Choir over the weekend. While I don’t intend t...

I remember when I taught gospel doctrine in my freshman year at BYU, I had a team teacher who used to say she thought old Laman and Lemuel g...

A thought occurred to me on Sunday. I was considering Peter (one of my very favorite characters in the scriptures). In Matthew we read ab...

When I went to my high priests’ group a few weeks ago to discuss Elder Hales’ talk on Agency and Bishop Edgely’s talk on Faith (both from t...

So said Nephi to the spirit during his vision of the Tree of Life (and more; see 1 Nephi 11). I’ve never been asked anything in a vision, b...

We were not surprised to hear him say it, but hoped it wouldn’t be so soon. When our son delivered this message, my wife listened calmly an...

In our recent stake conference, Elder Ringwood of the Seventy spoke about testimony. He suggested that for most of us in the church, the re...

In our family scripture reading we finally got to the end of the Book of Mormon (this time it took us about 15 months). As we read Moroni...

In 1967 (the year I was baptized), Richard D. Poll delivered a sermon in the Palo Alto ward in which he coined the terms Iron Rod Saint and ...

In 1967 (the year I was baptized), Richard D. Poll delivered a sermon in the Palo Alto ward in which he coined the terms Iron Rod Saint and ...

I have written before about my inability to explain why two people can share similar experiences and emerge with different spiritual results...

I'm teaching the High Priests on Sunday about faith, and so I'm musing a bit. An object lesson: If you want light in a room, wh...

In an ongoing discussion with a young friend, I included a conversation about young Nephi from the Book of Mormon as he sought to understand...

Alma invites us to experiment upon the word, to plant the seed of faith and see if it grows. It reminds me of the first grade bean experime...

In the chapters of scripture that catalog spiritual gifts, healing is among them. Paul and Moroni refer to the "gifts of healing"...

I remember a Sunday School teacher from my youth who confided that although we probably shouldn't have favorite general authorities, she...

In his Articles of Faith, written first in a response to a newspaperman about Mormon beliefs, Joseph Smith lists faith in the Lord Jesus Chr...