Last weekend, my family went out to dinner and my sons received an unexpected gift.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Pocatello Temple is starting to take shape and now has much of its steel frame in place.

U.S. cardinals needed someone who was willing, in the spring of 2002, to face waves of microphones and cameras and answer questions about a clergy sexual abuse crisis that kept growing more and more intense.

Anne Graham Lotz has done her share of thinking about the past, present and future of evangelism — which is understandable, since her father, Billy Graham, liked to call her the "best preacher in the family."

A couple weeks ago I got a late-evening text from a woman in my ward.

A singing performance by The LeBarons and a talk by Jennie Taylor, the widow of Afghanistan war casualty and former North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor, will highlight the 30th annual Family Conference hosted by the American Mothers of Cache Valley.

Panama celebrates ‘Black Christ’ as part of protest of colonialism

Overcoming obstacles and changing course in life will be the subject of a talk by former Utah State University basketball star Gary Wilkinson, presented by the interfaith organization Cache Community Connections.

We live by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)

Lovers of young adult dystopian novels may be pleased to learn about a local author’s recently published book that revolves around secret government-funded programs and children who gain supernatural powers.

Last week, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made headlines for clarifying parts of its health code, the Word of Wisdom. Cold tea is still tea — and discouraged, Church leaders stated. Drinks ending in “-ccino” are coffee drinks; thus, members are asked not to drink them, eithe…

Recently the truth of the expression the “weakest link” has been evident to me. For a variety of reasons, we’ve needed to replace seven tires on our vehicles due to unrepairable flats and tire failures. Certainly, there are more important parts to our vehicles than tires, but recently tires …

A Forbes article offered an example of the expression of a “one in a million chance” that made me smile.

This week the congregation at First Presbyterian Church in Logan took another step on their journey of becoming a more environmentally conscious community — installing solar panels on their church’s roof.

My family recently returned from a trip to Mexico. In case you’ve never been there, Mexico is one of the most beautiful places on this planet. I know you’ve probably heard about crime-ridden cities and drug cartels, but have you also heard about the breathtaking scenery? The majestic cliffs?…

My teen son recently got his driver’s license. It’s been a complicated emotional adjustment for me. Author Elizabeth Stone says having a child “is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

When author Karen Peterson Mosley was a teenager, her great aunt sent her some genealogy records.

What if I told you that you were “Made for more.” More of what? We are likely to intuitively have a nagging feeling that there has to be more to life than what we are experiencing. In fact, we have coined the phrase of “mid-life crisis” to describe what some experience when they approach the…

Not long enough ago, I was fighting rats in my garage. I wasn’t fighting them in hand-to-rodent-foot combat, but for the amount of effort and energy the problem was costing me, mixed martial arts with rats would have been more efficient.

It was a television show, of all things, that led Cache Valley resident James Peterson to his current interest in the Book of Mormon, traveling around the U.S. to try and discover the stories, places and artifacts behind it.

While missionaries who choose to volunteer full-time for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have many spiritual experiences, there are moments of humor too.

My record collection was partly destroyed a few years ago when my shop was flooded. They had been in storage for a couple decades because I no longer had a stereo system to play them on. On a couple occasions, I had connected a record player to my computer to make digital recordings, but I a…

Last week, I parked my car on the street outside my sons’ school so I could attend their basketball game.

Each of us have dreams that we are chasing; goals that we are straining to achieve. When we’re young, our dream may be to own our own home or to have a certain career. As we age, our goals can change to having financial security and better overall health. However, the pursuit of tomorrow’s g…

A renowned Salt Lake City pastor who knew and marched with the late Martin Luther King Jr. will give the keynote address at the Logan Tabernacle next week as part of Cache Valley’s annual celebration honoring the late civil rights leader.

Every morning when I drive my children to school, we pass a woman walking her dog.

If you listed the top things that you least like to do, I’m pretty sure that waiting would be on your list. I know that it’s on mine. It doesn’t matter if it is waiting at a red light or a line at the store, we would rather have an express lane option where we could skip the line.

ith the arrival of December at the end of the week, local churches are set to begin Advent with a variety of services spanning until Christmas.

My grandmother’s best friend had an adventure at the dentist’s office last week.

A few years ago, my wife asked me to workout with her at a gym that had rows of exercise equipment. I signed up and joined her but it didn’t take long before I lost motivation to work out by myself on these machines. A short time later I canceled my membership.

I’m not fasting from social media.

You know the expression, “Can’t win for losing?” I felt this a while back. In fact, maybe like you, I feel it often. I’ve been a Type 1 Diabetic for over 30 years. This means that I need to take insulin to regulate my blood sugars throughout the day. The other evening, as I was headed toward…

Growing up in Northwestern Montana, Donald Woody didn’t attend church. It wasn’t until his junior year of high school that he would start reading the Bible and pursuing a relationship with Jesus Christ.

My kids were playing in our backyard while I sat in a lawn chair nearby, making to-do lists and studying our calendar of obligations.

Every fall family and student’s routines must change with the start of a new school year. The number of new things can be daunting. From new schools to new teachers to new friends to new classes. New can be fun. It breaks up the tedium. But new can also be overwhelming.

Devoted parents will do anything for their kids.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Anna Quindlen, wrote, “Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.” Possibly a better thought is that, “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will re…

After nearly 2,000 miles in a van, a team of missionaries from Cache Valley recently returned from Ensenada, Mexico, where they built a home and ran programming for two churches.

Recently, I sat in front of the computer, fiddling with a document I was writing.

The Liberty Quartet, an Idaho-based Southern Gospel group, will perform at Emmanuel Baptist Church at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, July 22, in Hyrum.

As the children’s music leader in my ward’s Primary organization, I’m always looking for a good game.

What comes to your mind when I mention a road trip? Is it positive or negative? I hope that it is positive, however, the reality is that many road trips either start or finish with bumps in the road.

SUGAR CITY — Thomas Scott is a man on a mission to sell high quality shoes.

At the Emmanuel Baptist Church’s annual Women’s Friendship Luncheon, women of the congregation gathered to support each other and recognize the blessings in the unexpected. Together, they explored the significance of the Bible verse Jeremiah 17:7 in their own lives: “But blessed is the one w…

With Utah State University graduations behind us and high school graduations approaching, many are stepping into uncharted territory. Obviously, graduates are looking to an undefined future, but graduation means changes for their families too. New beginnings, challenges, empty nests – maybe …

As a longtime fan of Fred Rogers, I am enthusiastically awaiting the release of this summer’s movie “You Are My Friend.” The film depicts the real-life tale of a reporter who is sent to interview Mr. Rogers for a feature story and finds his entire life changed for the better through his inte…

Former YSA bishop and Utah businessman Richard Ostler served a mission in England for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints almost 40 years ago.

To the North Koreans gathered beneath a crucifix in an apartment in this northeastern Chinese border region, she is known as “mom.” She feeds them, gives them a place to stay and, on occasion, money.

This March we visited family in Kauai. If you’re from Cache Valley, it’s likely that the warm weather and beaches of Hawaii are the very things that defines paradise. But what happens when paradise doesn’t measure up to our expectations? It necessitates a redefinition of paradise.