Faith, Fate, and a U.S. Presidential Campaign
Never accept the premise that you’re too small to make a difference in our big world. That’s exactly how I felt, though, last year, when as a middle-aged father, with a middle-class job, living in the middle of the country I watched from my seemingly helpless sideline...
Beauty for Ashes
Musk thistle is common on the Wyoming landscape. These thistles are usually considered pests by farmers. This one, pictured left, was the only display of color in the baked brown, summer landscape of the Wyoming high plains. Everything and everyone has a story. From...
Vacuum Sealed
NASA’S VOYAGER SPACECRAFT, launched nearly a half century ago (1977), is still heading away from Earth, at a rate of 38,000 miles per hour. By the year 2025, it will be 48 years and 13.8 billion miles from Earth. A few years ago, it escaped the heliosphere, the outer...
Be A Light When the kindness of a stranger gave light to my road
1990. Saturday night. Racing for home on my triathlon bike. Zipping downhill, on a long, steep descent of several kilometres, at 70 kilometres per hour (42 mph). A country road. Darkness had closed in. No street lights. Blinded by the lights of oncoming vehicles....
Turning the Doorknob of Faith A lesson on knowing the Savior from the example of James the Just
James, the brother of Jesus, grew up in the same household as Jesus. He was familiar with Jesus’ teachings and even the claims of His miracles. Yet, despite being as close to Jesus as anyone on earth at that time, he didn’t believe in the divine aspects of his...
