A Latter-day Voice

We had a special stake conference this past weekend. Four general authorities (including an apostle, one of the presidents of the Seventy, a...

Last week’s Wall Street Journal featured this story on parents’ serving as “exposure coaches” for their children who suffer from anxiety. ...

In 12-step programs there are often promises associated with working the steps.  Families Anonymous is a group that helps those who have ...

I did a workshop at our stake’s women’s conference, and I blogged about it at Real Intent (you can read that blog here ). The presentati...

I listened to a Planet Money podcast this morning (I’m way behind; it was weeks old) that talked about happiness metrics for countries. As p...

This is the third in an occasional series on control. Click the links for parts one and two . Part of our charge as parents is to train...

Today's post is cross-posted at Middle-aged Mormon Man as part of the Proclamation Celebration. You can find it here . At MMM's si...

I can guess what you're thinking. "This guy just put his first missionary in the MTC and already he's an expert?? Who does he...

I wrote a while back about how teenagers (boys, especially) seem to go to the dark side of the moon during their adolescence. And by the ...

Teenagers are remarkable creatures. During these developmental years, they double in size, physically mature, lose all sense of reason (and...

Like others, I tend to see themes-for-me in conference. As I’ve blogged before, I took a couple of specific questions into conference with ...

In my last post on this subject , I described my emotional response to the choice of some of my children to leave the church. And I postula...

Recently there have been a number of news stories (and subsequent blog posts) about those who are leaving the LDS church. In the normal cou...

Norbert over at BCC posted a really thought-provoking post on Tuesday around the question, “What is the greatest threat to your family?” Wit...

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...

The good news is I was praying for my son last night in our family prayer. The bad news is I couldn’t remember his name. Those readers wi...

I was listening to a Mormon Identities podcast from the Mormon Channel in which Richard and Linda Eyre were the guests. I’ve read a few o...

We know that The Family: A Proclamation teaches that fathers are to preside, provide and protect, and that mothers are to nurture, and that ...

The proclamation on the family is clear: "By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness.......