Category: Doctrinal Speculations

Stem cells, cloning, and abortion »

Hey everyone, sorry I’ve not been on much. Especially, Eugene: I know we have two or three big conversations to finish (I’ll try to combine and restart all of them at once by the end of the week).
Dan let me run a Bounds & Conditions column piece in the most recent SUNSTONE issue [...]

Miracles »

A family member and friend shared with me today the way her prayers and fasting were answered - literally overnight - through the healing of her son. Skeptical as I am, I still find such simple faith beautiful and intriguing. I’m not sure whether I believe it or not, though I lean toward not. I [...]

The First Choice We Can’t Remember »

In the current issue of Sunstone, Jody England Hansen describes faith as “…knowing that anything is possible in life. And that what I do makes a difference.” She describes the first condition for creating this kind of faith as choice. She had a powerful learning experience when a leader pointed out that there are three [...]

Perfect Attention »

I was stunned to recently read that the human mind wanders every six to ten seconds. That means an unattached thought crowds in on my conscious attention up to six hundred times an hour or 9,600 times a day. –These pants give me a wedgie. Why didn’t I notice that at the [...]