Had Gov. Jeff Landry been in church with me on a recent Sunday, he would have heard the message, Ten Commandments versus two commandments. Since he wasn’t, I’ll recap. In Matthew 22:37-40, Jesus ...

It’s a new year, and with that comes the long-time tradition of making a list of resolutions and the relatively new advent of choosing a word of the year. Everyone’s resolutions and words are ...

A clergy corner just before a national election and after All Saints Day, Halloween, and the Reformation is an invitation to delve into hundreds of topics or themes. It is also an opportunity to keep ...

Did you know there are over 1000 “commandments” in the New Testament? That is almost twice as many as the religious Jews identified from their Torah (first five books of the Old Testament – 613 of ...

The Supreme Court has not ordered the immediate removal of all Ten Commandments displays from government buildings, or from the lawns outside those buildings. In fact, its ruling Monday in two cases ...

The Ten Commandments, also called “the Decalogue,” are arguably the most famous words in the Bible. The Hebrew Bible presents them as having been revealed directly to the Jews by God. They were ...

Many months in this space I have an idea to write about, but I am not able to fully develop it. Or I have assignments and papers to write for class, so this writing piece takes a back seat. Or I have ...

Sometimes the responses I receive from readers make more sense than any opinion I’ve been able to come up with on my own. I want to pass along one of those responses. Recently, I wrote a column about ...

Elder D. Todd Christofferson and his wife, Katherine Jacob Christofferson, greet a crowd at Brigham Young University on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. D. Todd Christofferson, an elder in the Quorum of the ...

The governor of Louisiana just signed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools. There are two problems with this. The first and most obvious is that the Constitution ...