The Fearless Path

This guy is amazing. I will post more extensively in the coming weeks on the journey of Rep. Mark Siljander (ret.), but here is a recent op-ed from Veterans Today. Enjoy.

Here follows the weekly (as promised) lyrics/poem from the Fearless Path, this time from early LDS poet and songwriter, Eliza R. Snow, from one of my favorite hymns:
Truth reflects upon our senses;
Gospel light reveals to some.
If there still should be offenses,
Woe to them by whom they come!
Judge not, that ye be not judged,
Was the counsel [...]

I know this is an incredibly easy target, but I’m going to take a shot. With the recent publicizing of the CIA and White House memos regarding torture, part of the conversation has been whether torture works or doesn’t. Another aspect of the question has been whether it was legal or not. These shouldn’t even [...]

Every other week or so, I will post lyrics to a song or words to a poem that exemplify the ideas of the fearless path. One of the most out-spoken Christian songwriters of the last half of the 20th century was Johnny Cash. His life story is fascinating, demonstrating weaknesses, wild success, failure, loss, and [...]

In Mormon scripture is found the story of a group of four brothers and their friends who decide (after a shocking conversion experience by which they are born again in Christ) to go preach the word among the “idolatrous” and “wicked” Lamanites.
When they make this desire known among their own people, the Nephites, their decision [...]

Below is a letter I wrote to the editor of the Deseret News in Salt Lake City in response to another letter.
 
Are we a Christian nation?  Saying so doesn’t make it so. 

“Turn the other cheek.”  How many times do we hear the phrase?  So often, I would say, that it has lost its meaning.  But what does it really mean?  And more importantly—was He serious? 
 
“Love thy neighbor.”  OK, that’s not easy, but not impossible, either.  But was Jesus serious when He said, “Love your enemies, [...]