Secular thought in today’s society would destroy the family. In the next few weeks the U.S. Supreme Court will make its decision as to whether states can decide if marriage remains only between a man and woman, or whether in their lofty view it’s time to change that millennia-old institution. The prospects are not encouraging. Responding to…
Our Orange California stake conference in February of 2006 came and went, and our visiting authority left my stake presidency intact. I was set apart as stake president exactly ten years before. Elder Caldwell of the Seventy told me then that I was called by revelation and would be released by the computer—in nine years….
This month five huge international banks agreed to plead guilty to manipulating the foreign exchange currency market for their own profit. Doing it didn’t hurt them at all. They were fined $5 billion—nothing more than a bloody nose. The market cap of these banks is over $500 billion. This punishment for a “brazen display of…
When’s the last time you put two (or more) dumb decisions together back-to-back? Usually the second or tertiary dumb is a reaction or attempted correction or a rationalization or a cover-up or any of a thousand you-name-it dumbs resulting from the first dumb. I don’t need to go to the news to give you examples…