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  2011 Columns
• Guessing can harm marriages - December 14, 2011
• What to do about the FOG - December 1, 2011
• Grateful for hard times? Wealth is not the reward for righteousness - November 17, 2011
• Singing together is inspirational — and aspirational - November 3, 2011
• Magical thinking is not the plan - October 20, 2011
• The third moral dialogue - October 6, 2011
• The moral dialogue continues - September 15, 2011
• Witnessing a moral dialogue - September 1, 2011
• Books are good or bad depending on how you read them - August 25, 2011
• Here are some of my 'cool' ideas - August 18, 2011
• Ideas and inspiration at church - July 21, 2011
• God's foreknowledge: This life shows who we are - July 7, 2011
• Teaching practical prophecy - June 16, 2011
• Analyzing a quarrel over 'nothing' - June 2, 2011
• Defining, declaring our faith - May 19, 2011
• Hiding from archaeologists - May 5, 2011
• The limits of archaeology - April 21, 2011
• Loving thy neighbor as yourself - April 7, 2011
• Guessing leads to knowing - March 17, 2011
• Holding on to the 'others' - March 3, 2011
• Talents, gifts and intelligence - February 17, 2011
• Are there silos in our wards? - February 3, 2011
• Be careful claiming inspiration - January 20, 2011
• Caring for church's property - January 6, 2011
  2010 Columns
• Because it is beautiful - December 30, 2010
• Myth and truth of progress - December 23, 2010
• Ancestry not just from DNA - December 16, 2010
• Anatomy of a real apology - December 9, 2010
• Splitsville: It hurts at church - December 2, 2010
• Thanks be to our God - November 25, 2010
• It's a matter of how, not where, we serve - November 18, 2010
• Traditions and when to change - November 11, 2010
• Sabbath suggestions for dad - November 4, 2010
• The words of Isaiah -- to us - October 28, 2010
• Just who blesses whom? - October 21, 2010
• Gospel has no place for 'mysteries' - October 14, 2010
• We don't know the Lord's time - October 7, 2010
• Spare rod, but not the iron one - September 30, 2010
• Faith and trust - September 23, 2010
• Exploring faith and knowledge - September 16, 2010
• Who are we as a family? - September 9, 2010
• Family reunions worth going to - September 2, 2010
• The purpose of free agency - August 26, 2010
• The limits on free agency - August 19, 2010
• Figuring out free agency - August 12, 2010
• Managing a class of 'problems' - August 5, 2010
• Managing people at church - July 29, 2010
• Poet of the 'Dark Swans' - July 22, 2010
• Nothing to fear from the truth - July 15, 2010
• A place for Mormon introverts - July 8, 2010
• Having something to share - July 1, 2010
• Teaching our teens to speak - June 24, 2010
• Dating with a purpose - June 17, 2010
• Is dating really the only way? - June 10, 2010
• Husbands, wives and decisions - June 3, 2010
• Husbands need to pick up the slack - May 27, 2010
• What is the role of the husband? - May 20, 2010
• Surprising insights in the Book of Mormon - May 13, 2010
• Friends on the road - May 6, 2010
• Is it really your life to throw away? - April 29, 2010
• Callings help us learn skills - April 22, 2010
• Help preserve the lousy talk tradition - April 15, 2010
• Good counsel comes to mind when needed - April 8, 2010
• Father's history inspires - April 1, 2010
• Different reactions, same book - March 25, 2010
• Parenting is No. 1 in importance - March 18, 2010
• Do it anyway - March 11, 2010
• Of children, eggs and screeching - March 4, 2010
• Fun need not be enemy of the good - February 25, 2010
• What kids need from parents - February 18, 2010
• Tithing and taxes - February 11, 2010
• A Christmas card above all others - February 4, 2010
• The right way to run a meeting - January 28, 2010
• We all face translation problems - January 21, 2010
• Tips on correctly leading the music on Sundays - January 14, 2010
• Learn to use the language of respect - January 7, 2010
  2008 Columns
• Atheists 'celebrate' Christmas - December 25, 2008
• Searching for good LDS music - December 18, 2008
• Avoiding the syndrome of shaken faith - December 11, 2008
• Blessing a child's life with love - December 04, 2008
• The secret to good activities - November 27, 2008
• Turn joy, pain into parables - November 20, 2008
• Heroes and victims in Prop. 8 struggle - November 13, 2008
• Kindness knits all hearts together - November 6, 2008
• Don't allow kids to date before 16 - October 30, 2008
• Disagree but don't be unkind - October 23, 2008
• Teens face real life -- yet flourish - October 16, 2008
• Testimonies don't come on demand - October 9, 2008
• Communities succeed with monogamy - October 2, 2008
• Bad wife or just a busy one? - September 25, 2008
• Document does fine on its own - September 18, 2008
• Seminary blesses our house - September 11, 2008
• A calling shared by all of us - September 4, 2008
• When joy, grief share same day - August 28, 2008
• Oh, no, the ward is splitting - August 21, 2008
• Mormon books I'll do without - August 14, 2008
• Science on gays falls short - August 7, 2008
• Mormon world is a small one - July 31, 2008
• State job is not to redefine marriage - July 24, 2008
• Ever too old for Primary? - July 17, 2008
• The genetics of the Book of Mormon - July 9, 2008
• Why and how to defend marriage - July 3, 2008
• Vacations with true purpose - June 26, 2008
• Heyborne in the age of purity - June 19, 2008
 
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