Defending Jon Huntman’s “Heresy”

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So I’m seeing potential 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman take a lot of heat lately about his particular religious views. You might at first think I meant to say Mitt Romney, and that I meant 2008. Nope. In fact, that’s the ironic thing about it: many of the same people I see now assailing Huntsman for his religion were the same ones crying foul when Romney took heat in 2008 for his religion.

Leaving Rapunzel’s Tower

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I don’t make a habit out of drawing parallels between my life and the life of a Disney princess, but I just finished watching Disney’s Tangled and found some intriguing similarities that might be useful for explaining my faith journey

What Simple Minds Cannot See

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Recently Rush Limbaugh was mocking a Diane Sawyer segment wherein she praised the Japanese for finding time and space to utilize recycling programs in the refugee shelters amidst the mass destruction that the earthquake and tsunamis have caused. But this post isn’t necessarily about him. It’s about what people miss when they engage in simple-minded thinking similar to his.

Submitting to the Will of the Lord

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This is adapted from a talk I recently prepared for my uncle’s church congregation. Coincidental to the theme the bishop picked for this month, I just happened to be reading Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God, which includes a brief overview of the development of religious thought throughout history. It turns out that this would provide a nice setup for my talk.