If I don’t know where else to put it then it goes in this category.
I launched this website in September, 2008. A year and a month later, New Liberty Standard bought 5,050 Bitcoin for $5.02 in what was the first purchase of Bitcoin using fiat money. That would be worth $321M today, give or take a few hundred thousand. Over the next five years I wrote 172 posts. Then … Read more
I recently read The Power Of Everyday Missionaries by Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Clayton Christensen. Up until this point, I was not a very good missionary in terms of talking to my neighbors and friends about the gospel. Christensen’s book helped me realize that I was making it too hard on myself. … Read more
This past week I had the privilege of preparing a lesson to be taught in the elders quorum of the branch I attend with my family here in Hong Kong. I did not have the privilege of teaching the lesson I had prepared, as there was some confusion and someone else got up to teach … Read more
Doing some mid-summer cleaning, or updating, around the blog. Things have been busy for me lately and I haven’t had the time to comment or post much here for most of the past year. I just moved my family to Hong Kong, my business is busy, and that about covers it. I can’t guarantee much … Read more
As I see it, there are three ways a person comes to the truth of the gospel: 1. His desires happen to match up with what the truth is. 2. He is determined to live by the truth, regardless of what it is. 3. He is forced to know what the truth is. I find a … Read more
Why do we believe what we believe? Within the past few months I’ve had family members leave the LDS Church, friends and family who were struggling with their testimonies, and countless encounters with persons on this blog who have told me why they’ve left the Church, why they’ve stayed in it despite not having testimonies … Read more
As asked by Ann Mere here. My question: I have a mormon friend whose husband is an anti-mormon Christian active in a ministry to save people out of mormonism. When he asks his mormon wife about the mormon church she will never have a discussion with him. Would she be able to get a temple … Read more
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In January 2009 there were 60,500 searches on Google for the word “morman”. But what is a Morman, you ask? Wikipedia says that Morman was a Breton chieftain who was declared King after the death of the Bretons’ Frankish overlord Charlemagne in 814. He is the first personage known by name to be described as … Read more
As of this post it has been four months since I launched this blog. The site receives just over 200 visits per month at the moment, with virtually all that traffic coming as a result of the blog ranking in Google for keywords like “mormon beliefs, “mormon culture”, “mormon myths”, “joseph smith is a fraud”, … Read more
If you use Google’s Keyword Tool and type in “mormon” you get a list of the top 150 searches on Google that contain the word “mormon” along with the average monthly volume of searches for each keyword. It’s interesting to look at these words and speculate as to what people are really looking for when … Read more