The animal kingdom is full of aggressively territorial creatures: wolves, lions, mountain goats, bulls. When these guys mark their territory, they mean it. If you step in their space, they’ll knock you down. Then they’ll eat you. Bones and all. But they’re Care Bears compared to the Thisismy pewsir, the scientific name given to a recently…
What ever happened to good old-fashioned manners? When I was a kid, for example, we’d be horsewhipped if we didn’t say ma’am and sir. “Would you like another piece of fried chicken?” a friend’s mother might ask. “Yes, ma’am,” I’d say. Then she’d smile all sweet-like and put a chicken leg on my plate —…
It’s a tired old joke that we Mormons eat a lot of green Jell-O salad. We don’t, really — not anymore, anyway — but that’s the joke. Oh sure, there may be a few of us who eat Jell-O in private every now and again, but rarely will you see a platter of it at…
If you were to stand at any pulpit in this church and throw a rock into the congregation, chances are you’d hit at least three great singers. Chances are also good that you’d be escorted from the building, but my point is this: we’re up to our ears in great singers. This isn’t a bad…
