The Wayfaring Fool

It started innocuously enough.  It was date-night last night, and we were talking about our youngest daughter, and how, if she were a boy, ...

When I listen to Rachmaninoff's Vespers, I get a spiritual uplift that I really cannot explain.  There is something amazing from the ve...

Love the title, but I wouldn't immediately say that about myself, because I hate labels... Being agnostic is formally the very most h...

Baal Shem Tov, "Besht" for short, was the founder of the Hasidic movements, and was an 18th century mystic in what is now Ukraine...

This is a work in process -- I'm posting to save it and get initial thoughts. Mormons often state in their testimony, "I know th...

There is a mainstream thinking in Christianity that the events of revelation, and all the prophecies of the New Testament respecting the Se...

Within the Middle of the First Vision, one of the personages gives Joseph Smith the core message of the first vision, found in the followin...

I just read Mormon Heretic's Wheat and Tares post  about Joseph Smith's First Vision accounts. I think it's important to exam...

This was a talk I gave on 12-August-2012 on the subject above in the LDS/Mormon ward where I attend. By way of background, the talk was ...

Perhaps one of the most critically different things about Mormonism is the definition of God.  The problem is that the current understandin...