Category Archives: 2026 Essay

Monthly Message, June 2022 Sacrament Meeting Talk19 June 2022, Hillcrest 6th Ward CC Riddle My daughter, Elizabeth, and I moved into this ward a little over three years ago. We are grateful to have been warmly received. My dear wife … Continue reading →

Monthly Message, July 2022 Book Report:Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of DarwinismAuthor: James Perloff, Refuge Books, Burlington, Massachusetts, 1999 (The author says that believing in organic evolution is like believing a tornado went through a junkyard and produced … Continue reading →

Monthly Message, August 2022 D&C 86:4–8 “But behold, in the last days, even now while the Lord is beginning to bring forth the word, and the blade is springing up and is yet tender — Behold, verily I say unto … Continue reading →

September 2022 Some things to know about it: But almost no one talks about it. Most people do not realize it exists. But it is doing the task God has assigned it to do and makes the blessings of the … Continue reading →

Monthly Message, November 2022 We humans do not know much of ourselves. The things we really know are the familiar things we repeatedly observe. Most of what we believe at any given moment we do not observe, such as our … Continue reading →

Monthly Message, December 2022 Why I worship Jesus Christ at Christmas and all year: Chauncey Cazier Riddle

Monthly Message, July 2021 In our thinking we use universals as a catalog of all the kinds of things we imagine. Some of the universals we imagine we call “real,” such as cat, dog, sand, gravel, small-pox, impetigo, foreigner, native, … Continue reading →

Monthly Messages, January 2023 The most important verse? That is a strong value judgment. But there are some reasons why it might be so. The verse is 2 Nephi 26:24: “He (God) doeth not anything save it be for the … Continue reading →

Monthly Message, August 2021 Metaphysics is ideas about the unseen universe in which we live. It is the complement of the seen universe in which we live, which we will call “physics.” We cannot see all of physics, but we … Continue reading →

Monthly Messages, February 2023 1. The Most Important Commandment in the Book of Mormon The most important commandment? What a value judgment! But there are reasons why it might be so. The commandment is: ”Ye must repent, and become as … Continue reading →