Delivered at The Hearth Fireside Series on February 26, 2017, Atherton, CA   Matthew 15  21 ¶Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the c...

My initial reaction to the new LDS Church Handbook of Instructions' directives regarding the children of gay couples was something akin ...

One of Göran's and my more memorable activities was reading The Hobbit  and  The Lord of the Rings  together, from cover to cover. The r...

The first half of 3 Nephi begins to address some disquieting/depressing themes. Just a few thoughts/observations. Miracles don't conve...

My scripture study today was Mosiah 29 (in the Book of Mormon) .I can't resist commenting on verse 27 of this chapter, because of the fr...

Exodus chapter 32 represents a key moment in the history of God's dealings with Israel. It is the moment where the children of Israel fi...

Everybody gets things, everybody sees the light and understands things, at differential rates. And sometimes the Lord works in such a way ...

There's a scene in the Book of Revelation, in chapter 4, where 24 elders sit on 24 thrones gathered around the throne of God, a throne s...

In the first chapter of Paul's epistle to Titus, Paul deals with a problem that was perennial throughout his ministry: people speaking v...

The temptation for me as a gay man has always been to take some kind of short cut in my spiritual path.  To find some "easy" resol...

Spoiler alert! If you want to enjoy the movie Les Misérables without hearing extended discussions of it before hand, don't read this po...

I love Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians. There's some great stuff in there about how being a Saint involves having the Holy ...

Paul uses an interesting image in describing the freedom of those who work for the Kingdom of God in 1 Corinthians chapter 9.  He references...

Here's the text of the talk I delivered at Circling the Wagons , San Francisco, CA, on August 11, 2012 ________ I am indebted to my...