Its Complicated – The Grumpy Mormon

Homo Sapiens and Nature

This is a bit tangential to my normal religious theme. My question:

Are homo Sapiens capable of living harmoniously in a diverse environment; sharing resources with ourselves and other living things?

Change – Part 3 – Leaders as Anchors

In Part 1, I stated that leaders generally don’t lead, they follow the pack. In fact, it can be worse than that … or better.

In the previous post, I suggested that leaders of an organization can strategically disrupt the social moment of change agents by removing them from the organization, disrupting or delaying the tipping point required for social change.

Change – Part 1 – Change Agents and Women

I’m reading an interesting book entitled: Change – How to Make Big Things Happen by Damon Centola. It is a fascinating look at social networks and how change is propagated. While reading, the following two fascinating questions came up:

How does change occur in the Church?

What are the symptoms of an organization that marginalizes women?

Lazy Learning – An Introspection

Glenn Ostlund, author of Bathing with God and a professional life coach, provided some feedback on my previous post “Lazy Learning – An Introduction.” He tried to find me in the content and then posed some questions and made several insightful observations. So, this post is an exercise in self-reflection that may reveal some of my feelings.

Lazy Learning – An Introduction

In the April 2021 general conference, President Russel M. Nelson gave a talk entitled Christ is risen; Faith in Him Will Move Mountains. Most of the talk is an appeal to members to increase faith. He utilizes the keywords common to this subject, such as faith, belief, and doubt. But the cultural implications that these words carry may differ from their usage outside of the Church.

Bigfoot is True

Our local news paper a ran surprising story in July 2020, a hiker found a footprint in the soil of our local mountains and believed it to be made by a Sasquatch. While the outdoorsman is “a believer,” I am not.

The Turtle and The Earth

“Good night, Grandpa,” Jake mumbled to the silhouette at his bedroom door.

“Good night, Jake. See you in the morning,” came the low voice. With a shrug of his shoulder, the man pushed off from the door frame and began to turn.

“Grandpa, do you believe in the Great Turtle?”

Civil Weddings

I performed the civil marriage of my son and you can do the same for your children.

Binding and Blinding

It is not uncommon to hear someone say: “All religions teach good principles.” Our response may be an outwardly, yet reserved, nod. But, internally we may be saying: “Yeah, but they don’t have all the truth like we do.” Or, silently append the platitude with “… but, they won’t be saved.”

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