Imagining Jesus
by By Common Consent | Best of LDS Blogs
How many families will recreate the Nativity in their living rooms on Christmas Eve? Impossible to even gue...
A Modest Proposal: Making More Hymns “Familiar”
by By Common Consent | Best of LDS Blogs
A few weeks ago, I was asked to lead music for the dedication of our new Stake Center. As usual, I was aske...
What if They’d Had Facebook in Kirtland?
by By Common Consent | Best of LDS Blogs
Church history would be so much easier to understand if we had a social media record to look back on… ...
Mormon Hero
by By Common Consent | Best of LDS Blogs
Allow me to make a prediction: by 2030, if not much sooner, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada wi...
Ritual
by By Common Consent | Best of LDS Blogs
I was listening to a talk show and the host, who is Jewish, was telling about his experience sitting shiva ...
Mormon Migration Database: Blacks and Mormonism
by By Common Consent | Best of LDS Blogs
Dr. Fred E. Woods at BYU has recently made available an online database of migration primary sources. This ...
Heber J. Grant on politics
by By Common Consent | Best of LDS Blogs
Perhaps not unlike our current Church President, Heber J. Grant was fond of telling stories in Church meeti...
On these three things hangs my testimony
by By Common Consent | Best of LDS Blogs
Mormon testimonies tend to be small-t trinitarian: 1. I know that God lives. 2. I know that Jesus is the Ch...
In praise of baptism
by By Common Consent | Best of LDS Blogs
Although I have attended many baptisms for eight-year olds, today I attended my first adult baptism. As an...
Why I Disagree with Doomsayers
by By Common Consent | Makes You Think
One of the benefits of having lived so close to the edge for so long is not taking things for granted. I kn...
