On Friday, October 2nd, Thomas McConkie’s book Navigating Mormon Faith Crisis: A Simple Developmental Map will be launched. Read on to find out what it’s all about, and check back for a book review coming soon. Amazon copies will available tomorrow at 7pm MT.   For as long as there has been faith, there has been faith crisis. This generation of Latter-day Saints is no exception to the rule. Generally, faith crisis points to a kind of falling apart, a disintegration of one’s former world that... Read more

  Imagine a world where a civil war has been fought over abortion, and the compromise that ended the war was The Bill of Life, a document that essentially postpones abortion by making it illegal to tamper with life from the moment of conception up until age 13. In the teenage years, however, parents may choose to have a child “unwound” into parts used in organ transplants. Improbable as it sounds, this is the premise of Neal Shusterman’s Unwind series.... Read more

Last week in this space, I wrote about what Latter-day Saints can learn from the Roman Catholic Mass. I did in an effort to 1) Show that we can learn from other faiths, which some Latter-day Saints vehemently disagree with 2) Talk about some of the shortcomings of our sacrament meetings In my writing I engaged in a bit of hyperbole;exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. I said things like such as “I personally have never... Read more

I remember one particularly humid day in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where I stepped onto a sweltering, smelly bus. I had been serving as a missionary for about four months and I was in no way used to the idea that standing next to sweaty, unkempt old men in an unventilated space was better than risking “curent”—the devious cause behind everything from muscle pain to brain cancer: aka a draft…of air. No air-conditioning, no open windows, just body odor and heat headaches... Read more