“So what is ministering, anyway?” I was sitting in a church gym, and the Elders Quorum teacher was leading the semi-annual discussion where we redefine the word “ministering,” since no one seems to know exactly what it means. I was bored, so I looked around me and counted everyone in the room. 30 men. And […]

I recently listened to an episode from Noah Rasheta’s Secular Buddhism podcast called Learning to Live Artfully. In my understanding, the main idea of living artfully is rejecting the utilitarian model of thinking, where we try to justify all of our actions based on what utility or value they provide. For example, artists don’t paint […]

Today I launched my first real website for a client. By “real” I mean a website that at least a few dozen people will use each year, and by “client” I mean my sister. The site is tavacibrighamcity.com. It’s a simple “brochure”-style website, but it’s an enormous milestone for me: I actually shipped something on […]