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“Secular” Sacred Music
In the introduction the LDS hymn book, it notes that “Sacred music can bring joy, comfort, and inspiration.” I think that’s true. As a Church, we believe that all Truth comprises one great whole,...
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On Different Bible Translations
The Policy Change and Some Reflections on It In December 2025, the Church updated the General Handbook’s language regarding the use of English translations of the Bible that are not the King James...
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New Sunday Schedule, Part 3: 5 Minutes to Move
[This is third (probably last) post where I discuss the new Sunday schedule.] In the August 4, 2026 release about the new Sunday schedule, the Church notes that we should “Keep transition times brief....
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New Sunday Schedule, Part 2: 25 Minutes in Gospel Doctrine
[This is the second post where I discuss the new Sunday schedule.] Whether shortening the Sunday School time to 25 minutes will be positive or not largely depends on what one thinks the goal of Sunday...
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New Sunday Schedule, Part 1: 25 Minutes in EQ (and RS)
[This is the first post where I discuss the new Sunday schedule. “New Sunday Schedule, Part 2: 25 Minutes in Gospel Doctrine,” and “New Sunday Schedule, Part 3: 5 Minutes to Move” will come in the next...
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Hot Take: We Need to Avoid Christolatry
“Christolatry” is not a term used very often in the Church. So, let’s start with a definition. As with any ‘…olatry’ (as used in religious settings), the term generally signifies an imbalance in our...
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Biblical History Through the Lens of Deuteronomy and Chronicles
To start, this isn’t going to be a post about history, or about Deuteronomy, or about Chronicles. This is a post about storytelling. And about history, and about Deuteronomy, and about Chronicles....
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Tilting at Windmills
For the first time, I’m making my way through Cervantes’ Don Quixote (for the book nerds out there, I’m reading the Edith Grossman translation). The book follows a gentleman named Alonso[1] who has...
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Temple Changes, Covenant Changes?
I’ve delayed this post for a while, mostly because I was worried that people would think I was being either flippant or disrespectful (or both). I worried that people would think I was insincerely...
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Ancient Vs. Modern Temples
There is no doubt that LDS folks see themselves as ‘temple builders.’ It’s a core part of LDS identity. Indeed, the temples are the most expensive and ornate worship structures that the LDS Church...
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Funeral Plans?
Perhaps because I’m getting older, I’ve started to think about what my “end of life” celebration/service might look like. Over the years, including fairly recently, I’ve asked people what they were...
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LDS Church and the Cross: New Statues on Temple Square
A couple of years ago I posted a brief reflection about the LDS Church’s complicated relationship with the cross. The short story is this: despite the fact that early saints wore the crucifix as...
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Do You Attend the Temple?
LDS leaders have been unequivocal when it comes to the importance of the temple. Reiterating past leaders’ statements, and consistent with subsequent leaders’ views, Gordon B. Hinkley asserted that “no...
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Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
In their analysis of Genesis 4:9, Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler observe that the LORD’s question “Where is your brother Abel?” is one that asks about “more than location.”[1] Presumably, the LORD...
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Joseph Smith and The 1995 LDS Proclamation on the Family, part 11
Derivatives I have left out much of the story here, and it would take much more space to tell the rest (and this part ended up being far longer than I originally imagined–something my editors always...
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Elementary School Cafeteria Mormonism
Hello! Welcome to Cafeteria Mormonism: Elementary School Style. You thought regular Cafeteria Mormonism was theologically precarious? Just wait until that cafeteria…is in an elementary school. A few...
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Claiming Incarnation
The word “incarnation” has had a tough ride in LDS circles. At the most basic level, the word incarnation communicates the idea that in Jesus, God became flesh. However, this is where things get a...
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Looking Forward to the Hebrew Bible
As 2025 comes to a close, the LDS study of the Doctrine and Covenants also wraps up (I hope everyone will read WVS’s series on “The Family: A Proclamation to the Word” in preparation for the discussion...
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On Rejecting Unjust Systems
Before I begin, I acknowledge that the ideas in this post do not have full consensus, though a number of prominent theologians have proposed ways to understand Jesus’s mission that are similar to the...
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On Apologetics, Briefly (Second in the Series)
Understood as “the intellectual defense of the truth of the Christian religion, usually considered a branch of theology,” Christian history is filled with luminaries who ventured into realm of...
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