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Sunday Talk: Using the Priesthood to Bless the Lives of Others

These days, writing a talk that’s generally fine is easy. Any AI platform can do it in a matter of seconds. It can give you an outline, or write the whole thing for you. I asked ChatGPT to give me an outline for this talk, (Topic? Using the Priesthood to Bless the Lives of Others) […]

Boston Book Festival Recording

I realize many of you weren’t able to make it out to my panel at the Boston Book Festival. I’m sure you were crushed, so you’ll no doubt be ecstatic to know the event was recorded, and you can listen to it right this very moment! It was a fun panel to be on, looking […]

On Anti-Religious Sports Chanting

Yesterday evening, BYU played a basketball game against Providence College in Rhode Island. I’m assuming pretty much everyone knows BYU is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but Providence is also a religious institution. Right on their home page, they describe themselves as follows: “Since 1917, PC has taken pride in […]

Tomas’s Homecoming Talk

It’s traditional for returned missionaries to give a talk in their home church when they come back from their missions. Back in the day, it was usually just a long talk about what they did on their mission, though these days it’s customary to have it be on some sort of a theme (probably to […]

Tomas is Coming Home!

So, strangely enough, tomorrow marks 25 years since I was released as a missionary, and it’ll be the day Tomas is released as a missionary himself. So naturally I’m looking both back and ahead. Back when I was released, my parents came to pick me up in Germany. It was a bizarre feeling, going from […]

The House Elf Test

We have a fridge in our garage that I’m pretty sure is magical. Anytime we run out of milk in our main fridge, if I go out there and check the garage fridge, a new gallon of milk has somehow appeared out of the ether, ready for me to grab it and bring it inside. […]

A Bluesky Renaissance

Man. Speaking as someone who’s been on Bluesky for over a year (I joined 9/29/2023), things have really heated up on the platform for the first time in . . . ever. I have been steadily, faithfully posting into what’s felt like the void for almost the entire time. There were many times when I […]

Going to Disney World Again(?)

It’s still early days yet, but the plan at the moment is to finally head down to Disney World again this summer. This would be the first time we’ve been since . . . 2017? Ever since our 2020 trip was canceled for 2020 reasons, I just haven’t had the chance to go back. I […]

Television Review: Only Murders in the Building Season 4

First off, the good: any time I’m still watching a show in its fifth season, that’s a sign that I’m a pretty big fan of what they’ve been producing. And Only Murders in the Building is a genuinely good show. The first season was fantastic. Steve Martin and Martin Short and Selena Gomez play off […]

Tomas Update: The Final Week

Well, it’s been a little bit. I don’t even remember the last one of these I sent, definitely a few months in between then and now. I’m sure most of you know but I am right now back in Slovakia, in a little city in the center called Banská Bystrica, after having served a few months in the […]