Occasionally, with my tongue firmly lodged in my cheek, I’ll say: “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is such a class outfit, I’d belong to it even if it weren’t true.” Then quickly add, “Of course, it’s a class outfit because it is true.” Years ago while serving in the stake presidency of…
An interesting time, this. Elder Perry and Elder Packer have passed away. At least two other LDS apostles appear near the end of their mortal probation, and our beloved President Monson is both physically and memory age-challenged. But the Lord is in charge. We’ll see that truth manifest powerfully, unmistakably, at the upcoming general conference…
So-called gender equality may be a moot point. Just before Christmas a number of years ago I asked my five-year-old granddaughter, Chelsey, what Santa Claus was going to bring her. “Two bikes,” she answered. “Two bikes?” I was puzzled. “Yes, Grandpa.” Her face took on a five-year-old’s serious look, and her hand went to her hip….
The word sallow wasn’t in my lexicon when I was a five year old staying with my Great Grandpa John Alfred and Grandma Hannah Hanson in Shelley, Idaho in the mid-1940s. To me my grandma was just old, puffy, and yellow. My grandpa was a bent skinny stick with a mustache. We were only with them…