This past weekend, I was up in Bangor Saturday and Sunday at Stake Conference. It’s a regional church meeting where members of multiple congregation from the area come together for instruction and a worship service. We had a visiting General Authority (someone from the international leadership level of the church) come to speak to us […]
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That’s a pretty lame title, I’ll admit, but I wasn’t sure how else to phrase it. As I’ve been watching the news and hearing the rhetoric from the Republican side of the aisle, I am continually disappointed in the lack of empathy, care, or understanding shown for people who are different from them. Whether it’s
Before We Judge People, We Should Try to Know Them Read More »
These days, writing a talk that’s generally fine is easy. Any AI platform can do it in a matter of seconds. It can give you an outline, or write the whole thing for you. I asked ChatGPT to give me an outline for this talk, (Topic? Using the Priesthood to Bless the Lives of Others)
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It’s traditional for returned missionaries to give a talk in their home church when they come back from their missions. Back in the day, it was usually just a long talk about what they did on their mission, though these days it’s customary to have it be on some sort of a theme (probably to
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It’s been a while since I gave a talk in church (8 months, to be specific). I don’t have one coming up, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about religion. On a drive the other day, I actually started trying to think through the relationship between prejudice and true religion. (Yes, apparently this
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