Often young people ask questions like, “My parents are divorced. Who am I sealed to?” While these questions may vary in a myriad of ways, they essentially come to the very heart of the sealing ordinance, to the very center of the truth that marriage covenants are sacred before GodContinue Reading

I found the following seminary teaching advice from Joe Spencer to be quite valuable and wanted to post a piece of it here.  I agree that “the process of learning—and so the process of teaching—is the process of moving from immediate answers to unanswerable questions, from supposed knowledge to recognizedContinue Reading

There is an increasing sentiment among some seminary students that the world is overpopulated, running out of resources and that the future looks bleak.  Many students have expressed to me thoughts such as, “What’s the use?  The world is going to end anyways.  Why get married and have children?  WillContinue Reading

In our classroom we have a “question box”.  I have found this to be a useful tool in the classroom.  When a student has a question that would take us far off topic, yet is still relevant to their lives, a teacher has a couple of options.  The teacher canContinue Reading

Today we had an interesting question come up in class.  A student mentioned that she saw a prominent member of her ward doing something that she did not think was appropriate to do on the Sabbath day.  She asked me if what she saw was “alright to do on theContinue Reading

Section 89 of the Doctrine and Covenants is called the ‘Word of Wisdom’.  The name came from the 1st verse.  Joseph Smith announced this revelation Feb. 27, 1833. During the early 1800’s, drinking alcoholic beverages was a common and accepted practice among Americans, including the members of the church.  AContinue Reading