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My personal thoughts on various religious topics

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Unjust steward

Unjust steward, meet the prodigal son

Unjust Steward: The Problems The “Parable of the Unjust Steward” in Luke 16:1-8 is confusing. It seems to teach lessons contrary to everything that lots of Christians believe in. The short version is that a steward for ...
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Why did Christ come to Bountiful?

Christ in the Americas As recorded in the book of 3 Nephi 11-28 in the Book of Mormon, Christ ministered to the people living in the Americas shortly after His resurrection. This partially fulfilled His prophecy in John 10:16 when ...
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Jephthah

Jephthah: A Judge unrighteously judged

I’ve noticed that many people associate the Old Testament with writings like Isaiah, or Jeremiah, often thinking of complicated, long, and confusing prophesies. Much of the Old Testament, however, is loaded with stories. We’re all familiar with stories like Noah, ...
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Annunciation

Orthoenai

Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy When studying the many religions in the world, it’s not uncommon to see publications categorize the many faiths as being either predominantly Orthodox (correct belief) or Orthoprax (correct action/practice). Writers and scholars often use ...
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Rameumptom

Doing the Rameumptom

Rameumptom in Sunday School I have heard the story of the Rameumptom used to teach some interesting lessons in talks and Sunday School classes. This story in chapter 31 of Alma in The Book of Mormon is a memorable one to readers, ...
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Seeking truth

One of my duties at church has been to teach a class on Sundays to the Priesthood Quorum (which means teaching a class to a room full of guys age 18 to 50sih). One week I was assigned to teach ...
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Almsgiving

Giving of our substance to others (almsgiving) is a complicated issue. One subject that frequently comes up (among those of us that think and talk about these things) is the issue of giving to people ...
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Women and the priesthood

The Problem If you’re reading this, you probably already know that I’m a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormons.  In the church, God has given us the ...
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Faith and questioning

A post on faith and questioning deserves a little background as to why I decided to write it. I had a job evaluating survey data at BYU, which sometimes means reading through heaps of open responses ...
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