My first book is finally out!!! It’s taken about five years to write, revise, cleanup, format, edit, and publish, but Giraffe Tracks is available as of today! I’ll have it on its own webpage soon, but the webpage isn’t ready yet, so for now I’m linking to straight the store...

“therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days” Sometimes we assume that the book of 1 Nephi is like a journal – that Nephi kept it as he went along. Maybe that’s the case for the other plates he kept, I don’t know, but with the version...

Remember when I mentioned Literal Video Music Videos? Well, Jenni and I made one. We had such a fun time doing it. Remember the “I’m Blue, Da Ba Dee Da ba Die” song? Their music video is quite goofy, so we thought we’d make a literal video of the music...

“therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days” Sometimes we assume that the book of 1 Nephi is like a journal – that he kept it as he went along. Maybe that’s the case for the other plates he kept, I don’t know, but with the version...

“Having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God” I’m sure you’ve been in church when someone has said something like, “Let’s not dive too deeply into the mysteries,” or, “that’s one of the mysteries that we don’t really need to know right now.” Of course,...

1 Nephi 1:1 “having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days” Hang on. Did Nephi just say he was favored of the Lord? Isn’t that the same thing as favorite? Does the Lord have favorites, or am I just reading this wrong? What does it mean to...

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Cartoon by hartboy on flickr “…and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days, nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days…” These are clearly the words of an optimist. Nephi wasn’t kidding when he said he’s seen many afflictions in the course of...

GoldEN Plates Continuing the discussion on the introductory stuff in the Book of...

This is one of those videos that just makes you want to keep going… Life and love really can and should be...