Spirituality - Mormon

Thoughts on Mother's Day (21 pages; no abstract) – Expanded notes from a talk I gave in a church service to celebrate Mother's Day some years ago. I prepared these at the request of a few people who wanted a copy of my talk.

Douglas Willard Paxman Memorial Service (17 pages; no abstract) – Expanded notes from an address I gave at my Uncle Willard's memorial service. I lived with him and my Aunt Hazel as a teenager for one year, and continue to have great respect and admiration for both of them and their children. I was honored to be asked to speak about his life, and to pay my personal respects to him and his family in that way. I also prepared these in response to requests for copies of my talk.

Barefoot to Zion (15 pages; no abstract) – Written to be used to promote a play by the same name our Stake put on a couple of years ago. This document was specifically designed to be distributed to non-members of the LDS Church toward whom the play was primarily directed. That is, this document and the play itself were supposed to introduce people to the Church, and to encourage them to meet with the missionaries and eventually commit to Church membership and all that it entails. The contrast between what I wrote here and what I came to believe a short time later still takes my breath away. We can be conditioned to believe almost anything if we are kept in an information vacuum, and I will never again underestimate the importance of perspective.

Remarks by Bob McCue at the Missionary Farewell of Brayden McCue (4 pages) – This talk was given approximately one year before I resigned my membership in the Church. Once again, from my current vantage point I find the difference in perspective chilling.