There’s something special about Christmastime, but I’ve had a harder time feeling that Christmas spirit this year than in the past. Perhaps because it’s the first Christmas (aside from my mission) when I won’t be with my parents and siblings. Perhaps because there’s still no snow in Provo. Or perhaps because for the first time […]
Read more "What Christmas Means to Me"Some brief thoughts from Sainte-Chapelle and St. Paul’s.
Read more "Scattered Cathedral Musings"Competing Visions of Zion Unsurprisingly, I am frequently engaged in conversations about Mormonism and what the ideal would look like. I’ve been struck recently by somewhat of a disparity in what I hope to see and what others wish for and think our competing desires (which admittedly, have some, maybe even significant, overlap) may create […]
Read more "Simplicity and Complexity"Dedicated to Dallin Hilton. I am heartbroken. I just learned that one of my closest cousins died in a car accident driving back after the break. Death’s been around me for awhile, even coming to close members of my family (my grandpa and an uncle), but in both of those instances death was a sort […]
Read more "A Grief That Can’t Be Spoken"Last week, I posted some thoughts entitled “To a Doubter, From the Fringes.” As I was writing to friends and others (based on what I think would’ve been useful for me earlier in my faith remodeling), I want to expand a bit on what I wrote then, based on some questions and thoughts that people […]
Read more "More Thoughts From the Fringes"2015 is here. 2014 has moved on to a better place where its happenings are touched with the rosy, hazy gleam of nostalgia. That means traditionally we look at what we did the past year and evaluate what to do for the next. I was pretty successful at my goal of posting something on my […]
Read more "New Beginnings (or Slight Alterations)"Dear Christmas, So I heard you sold out. Big. Like the largest selling out that’s ever happened in the history of sell outs. I mean, I know that Reel Big Fish said you should, but wow. You’ve always meant something to me and have been a huge part of my childhood. But things seem a […]
Read more "An Open Letter to Christmas"
Conor Hilton 