Latter-day Commentary – Last Days – Signs of the Times
Mormon doctrine, culture and social commentary
When I started blogging about LDS doctrine and issues a few years back I did not expect to get a lot of comments right away. After all, nobody knew about my blog yet. I was just another blog among millions. So I happily wrote all kinds of essays about things that had been on my …
Carol and I are flying up to Salt Lake on Friday to attend a gospel-related symposium on prophecy and cosmology. In other words, it is a seminar about Armageddon and the last days. It is being held at the Provo Marriott in the Aspen room. Attendance is expected to be several hundred. I am encouraged …
While watching the Mormon Messages Easter video of Elder Holland rise on the charts over the weekend, I couldn't help but notice another rising star - Susan Boyle. If you haven't watched her video yet then you haven't been paying attention. In less than five days, adding up all the versions out there, it has …
What Seth calls "a simple video" that he made for Easter, I call amazing. Is it a simple thing to put a beautiful piece of music to a collection of wonderful paintings of the Savior into a video? Maybe some of you can do it with little effort, but for me, it demonstrates real talent. …
Continue reading "Sharing the gospel through video on YouTube"
In recognition of the Easter season, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following Easter message today: "At this Easter season of hope and renewal we testify of the glorious reality of the atonement and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. The empty tomb brought comforting assurance and …
Continue reading "An Easter message for those who feel alone"
And just because I think that the church is doing a great job with these Mormon Messages, I include the latest one here <video embed removed> with a few comments. I'll bet hundreds, if not thousands of other Latter-day Saints are adding these videos to their blogs as well. Wouldn't it be great if more …
Continue reading "We don’t know everything but we know enough"
As a follow-up to my previous essay about how difficult it is for some people to understand or accept the restored gospel of Jesus Christ because they intellectualize it way too much, I offer the following video clip of Elder Gerald Causse. It expresess beautifully how easy it really is to understand the gospel that …
I know that some of my readers are lawyers, some are philosophers and some are very active apologists of our faith. I know this because I read your blogs and am much impressed by your sound reasoning and logical approach to questions of religion, both doctrinal and practical.I am not trained in rhetoric, argument or …
