I was listening to a talk today in sacrament meeting where the speaker was putting great emphasis on the fact that the leaders of the LDS church seek for members to obey their leaders out of understanding rather than blindly obeying. I’m confident that most people would concede that this is the ideal for any [...]

“There’s always the chance that politics are involved in politics.” Steve Urquhart
I wonder if Steve chuckled to himself when he crafted that bit of wisdom today.

I’m always interested in ways to open up government to the average voter so I was interested when I learned about GOOOH (Hat Tip - Mark Towner). Their mission is to change the way we elect representatives and try to make those representatives more accountable to their constituents.
Because GOOOH is a process for selecting representatives [...]

With the beginning of my new job I will have the opportunity to use public transportation regularly. I have always been in favor of using public transit but since I have always either worked from home or lived close enough to commute by bicycle I have never really used the transit system in Utah on [...]

Well, it wasn’t long from the time that I wrote to say that I was looking for work to the time that I got a job. Thank you to everyone who was praying for me and offering suggestions (that includes more than just the people who commented on that post). What was really fast was [...]

I really don’t mind so much if the voters in Utah always choose Republicans to represent them in Congress so long as they replace at least one incumbent on a regular basis (I’d say at least one new face every other election cycle). For that reason, if for no other, I was happy to hear [...]

In 2006 I wrote a post asking What kind of God do you worship? I was reminded of that post as I thought of my personal answer to the question this evening. I was watching The Testaments: Of One Fold and One Shepherd with my kids and it really hit home in the final scene.
In [...]

For all the political talk about what ails our society and how our “leaders” in Washington can fix it, I think that Peter Lovenheim has identified one real solution that can put everything back into perspective - recapturing the meaning of “neighbor.” He asks this very important question that I’d like to take a stab [...]

It’s amazing how many rules we have to govern everything we do. We took the family to the swimming pool today and were surprised at how few people there were there - until we learned that the pool had run out of plastic diaper covers, which are now required in addition to swim diapers after [...]