Our Thoughts Affect Our Feelings
May 20, 2020
In my book, The Founder of our Peace, I describe how researchers did an experiment in which 134 people put their hands into icy cold
Come Follow Me
Fence Laws
May 13, 2020
I share free learning and teaching tips for Come Follow Me. Follow me on Instagram or sign up here for email updates. One of my favorite chapters in The
It’s Okay to Feel Sad
May 6, 2020
This post I authored was recently published by LDS Living. Reposting here. Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of social media posts that go something like
How I wrote The Founder of our Peace
April 16, 2020
**Warning** long biographical post here. May be TMI for some people. Between 2006 and 2012, I published seven books with Deseret Book. They were all
The Founder of our Peace
March 27, 2020
Have you ever struggled with fear, depression, anxiety, or worry? If so, you are not alone. Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, was “greatly afraid and
Understanding and Implementing the Lord’s Vision for your Life
March 27, 2020
This post expands on ideas from The Founder of our Peace. Learn more about this book on my Peace Page. One of my favorite chapters
Ancestor Day
February 4, 2020
On February 4 , 1846, my ancestor Charles Shumway was the first person to cross the Mississippi River as part of the exodus from Nauvoo.
Choose to Let Go
January 31, 2020
One of my favorite scriptural one-liners is “free to choose” (2 Nephi 2:27). There lots of important aspects of this phrase (see the end of
We Might Have Been Happy
January 8, 2020
While many factors lead to our happiness, much of our ability to be happy depends on our attitude. In 1 Nephi 17 we see a
Divine Delay
May 7, 2019
A powerful lesson we learn from the raising of Lazarus from the dead is that of divine delay. Jesus was temporarily living in “beyond Jordan