Halloween traditions
I have fond memories of Halloween — costumes, trick-or-treating, and giant candy bars...
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How to open the scriptures
Of course, we read the scriptures to receive personal revelation, which is the vertical approach....
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Why do we bow and salute?
Why do we bow to royalty, or salute to authority? I’m sure it all goes back to God and...
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Conference, Sukkot, tents
In the Fall of 2015, we decided to celebrate Sukkot – The Feast of the Tabernacles. At...
Read MoreGod is the Father of Compassion
Some people say that God is an angry God. And I understand why they may come to that conclusion. The Bible is a confusing book and set in a different time period than now. But God, Jehovah, is a compassionate parent. If we look...
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Today and Noah’s day
What similarities can you see between the people of today and Noah’s day? How could the...
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Your name in the Book of Life
Now that I’m focused on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I’ve been thinking about the...
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Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration, which begins at sunset on the first day of Tishrei which...
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Golly as an exclamation
I was walking across campus at Occidental College, a path surrounded by native oak trees, ...
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Kingdom of God and Holy of Holies
In Margaret Barker’s book, Temple Mysticism, she writes that the Kingdom of God is the Holy...
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Chaos can lead to Creation
While visiting my son in Washington, we’ve been building a retaining wall to hold back the...
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A Manual for the After-Life
Here’s a pillow for your head, when you’re dead. If you were royalty in ancient Egypt,...
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Signs of September
In 2017, people were talking about the astrological sign in the sky, September 23, 2017, saying it...
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Covenant of Salt
I was surprised to learn about the history of salt, and I was surprised to hear that the Bible...
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Clare Middlemiss, only woman private secretary
Clare Middlemiss is the only woman to hold the position of private secretary to an LDS Church...
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Dennis Prager Bible Commentary
I’ve been listening to two books on Audible — Dennis Prager’s commentary of the...
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Do not anticipate trouble or worry
This is a tough lesson. It seems so simple. But when you’re worried about something,...
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Homeschooling Grades 9-12 Curriculum
Grade 9 First Semester Curriculum What we used for homeschool, the first year of high school, 9th...
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Homeschooling Grades 7 – 8 Curriculum
Seventh and eighth grade is kind of the bummer years in my opinion — if you go to public...
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Homeschool Sixth Grade Curriculum
History Time period: Medieval/Early Renaissance, 400 – 1600 Story of the World, vol....
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