5 Easy Questions to Invite Anyone to Learn About the Gospel | An Interview with Murray Meszaros
Murray Meszaros is originally from Saskatchewan, Canada, and joined the Church at age 21 after years of searching for peace and answers. A year later he was serving a mission in Austria. Murray worked in education for 42 years, including in elementary schools, as...
Should the Church acquire Leading Saints?
Last week I wrote about 3 reasons why the Church should not provide official leadership training. I did highlight the fact that lay leaders still need to experience some type of leadership training. However, I’d prefer to frame it differently. I think the word...
How I Lead in a Native American Ward | An Interview with Ian Nishimoto
Ian Nishimoto’s mother and father were born and raised in Hawaii. His father served in the US Army for 30 years, giving Ian the opportunity to live in many areas and hence his place of birth is Staten Island, New York. Ian completed his master’s degree at the...
Teach the Why – The New For The Strength Of Youth
Dack Van Orden was born and raised in Idaho Falls, ID. He currently lives in the Houston Texas area where he and his wife are the parents of three daughters and one bonus daughter. He has served in a variety of callings within the Church, most of which have been in...
The History of the Sacrament | An Interview with Lee Van Dam
Lee Van Dam served as a missionary in Hong Kong and Singapore where he taught the gospel in Cantonese, later returning as president of the China Hong Kong mission. He has also served as a branch president, bishop, high councilor, stake presidency counselor, and...
Do church leaders need more training?
Should The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do more to train their lay leaders? As an Executive Director of Leading Saints, a nonprofit organization focused on leadership in the Latter-day Saint context, this is the question I hear often. I have also heard...
How I Lead with Priesthood Blessings | An Interview With Mike Novakovich
Mike Novakovich currently serves as elders quorum president in his ward in Orem, Utah. He has served in the bishopric, as a gospel doctrine teacher "more times than I have fingers on my hand", and has taught Seminary and Institute for many years. He claims to have...
“Sad Heaven” Is False Doctrine | “Family Arrangements Will Be More Wonderful Than You Can Imagine”
Recently I sat in a youth Sunday School class filling in for an absent team teacher. The other adult teacher was presenting his lesson on "Family." He asked the 14-year-olds in the room: "What terms related to the temple would individuals not of our faith not...
A closer look at Sunday School
I’d like to pivot back to a broader topic of the second hour in church. Because of recent messages I have published via the newsletter, a few weeks ago I took a survey about what expectations you have for second-hour Sunday School. Here are the results: You can see...
The Holy Spirit’s Influence on Leadership Decisions | An Interview with Robert Millet
This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in November 2019. Robert Millet, Ph.D., is an author, speaker, and professor of Ancient Scripture and emeritus dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University. Author of more than 75 published works, he has...
