I taught the 5 year old Primary class today. Before I could even say welcome to class a tiny 5 year old girl in a flower dress blurted...

As covenant people we need to let our light shine, but not right into each other's eyes! Has a child ever tried to "help" you see by...

The very first story God tells us, repeated over and over, is the creation story.  It’s a bit Rumplestiltsken-ish, isn’t it?  Remember...

Have you ever looked around at church and thought, “I don’t fit in here.”  Or maybe you've been flat out excluded from a church-y social...

“Sometimes church hurts,” I mumbled to my friend who met me in the parking lot after I fled a meeting where a leader patronizingly...

“Sometimes church hurts,” I whispered as I knelt in prayer asking how to navigate a church policy I didn’t agree with.   When hit with...

( This post is a little longer & meatier) When you’re under stress, do you feel like you’re losing your mind?  Well, you kind of are....

There’s a gap in the sacrament. I don’t mean something’s missing, I mean there is a space in time between when the priests touch the...

On a recent trip to the Holy Land I was meditating while looking out the window of my AirBnB at an incredible view of the Western Wall,...

As a dedicated amateur runner over the last 24 years my motto has been “I don’t go far, and I don’t go fast, but I go 5 times a week.”...

I remember seeing Michelle and Barack Obama interviewed before the run for presidency. She shared about a day where he came home from his...

Kids. Interrupt. Every. Two. Seconds. They don’t care if you’re sick, if you’re busy, if you’ve got an important deadline, if you’re...

Christ was divine, a strong visionary leader, a healer of others… we don’t think of Him as needing help. But there, in the painfully dark...

My austere view of the Sabbath was dramatically challenged at one of the most conservative Sabbath-observing places in the world: The...

I know what an un-distracted, totally focussed teaching moment with my kids should look like. This was not it:  (Keep in mind, my...

You can get anything on Amazon these days - even willpower.  For real!  Have you seen this product:  Kitchen Safe Time Locking Container...

I went to an outdoor summer concert once of a country Western girls band, whom I should leave unnamed so I don’t lose credibility with...

Often when I read scriptures the words zoom past, but my mind easily drifts into distraction. Such was the case when I read the lesson...