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25  July, 2024; original I am taken by my guide, he shows me the early Saints. “The guns, canst thou hear the guns?” the figure tells me. I look, I see the smoke of musket fire. Houses burn, but there is no warmth for the lifeless here. Their bodies lay in the streets. They are resting now. “The children are crying. Canst thou hear them cry?” I listen, and hear the cries of the homeless wandering a wasteland tundra. They seek and search for the Lord, a place to belong, to pla

See original here with footnotes Setting: England, 1862 A sleepy child stands, dreams still in his eyes, his mother’s hands resting on...

June 20, 2024 I stand at the physical training field looking at a brilliant sunrise – the morning clouds set ablaze in an orange hue. The sound of soldiers training, the smell of astroturf, the warm morning breeze of the desert that surrounds Fort Huachuca fills my senses. And yet as I do my pull-ups, the laps, the miles, the weights, my mind is elsewhere, taken to the clouds. As beautiful as the morning sunrise with the backdrops of the mountains and sky island bluffs can be

A sacrament meeting talk given at Fort Huachuca, AZ May 11, 2024 See original here with footnotes Since we are at one of the nodes of the U.S. intelligence apparatus I decided that preparing a talk on the Christlike attribute of Knowledge would be appropriate. I would like to talk about the pursuit of acquiring knowledge generally, the risks associated with thinking, and the humility and tolerance required for the pursuit of knowledge and allowing others to do the same – wea

And we as these eternal beings stand in living contradiction, Between the two infinities that stretch in two directions...