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Uncommon Dissent: March 2015

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Sunday, March 8, 2015. We Must Not Pull Up the Tares. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares? Jesus was a story teller. This general level interpretation...

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Uncommon Dissent: April 2014

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Monday, April 14, 2014. The Statistician's Approach to Improving Home Teaching (Part 1 of 2). Go ahead, roll your eyes. Groan. Dread what is about to come. If you're sane, the question you are hopefully asking yourself is "how can you possibly use statistics to improve home teaching. Allow me to answer that question for you:. Statistics by themselves cannot - and will not ever - be a useful tool for improving home teaching. Statistics is the art of allowing data to tell its story (not to be confused with...

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Uncommon Dissent: October 2014

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Monday, October 27, 2014. Those Things I Don't Believe. As you may have noticed, I'm an evidence-based kind of guy. I like data, and I like a well reasoned and justifiable logic. This is certainly influenced by my professional career, but I like to think that it confirms well to the whole gentleness, meekness, and persuasion thing (would you like fries with your justification? Wouldn't the elevation change cause asphyxiation? The apologists' answers became more and more implausible. Evolution was another...

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Uncommon Dissent: July 2014

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Would you believe me if I told you I used to be an opinionated jack-ass? Well, you shouldn't- the tense of that sentence is wrong. I'm still an opinionated jack-ass. Fortunately, I'm not quite as extreme as I used to be. It didn't really hold her interest. By the time we made it to Temple Square, she was more interested in running up and down the sidewalks, admiring the flowers, and trying to play in the fountains. Pretty much anything we showed her would hold her interes...To fi...

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Uncommon Dissent: Scouting

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Eagle Scout, 1999. Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 662. Shaker Heights, Ohio, September 2007. Scout Camp Leader, July 2010 - 2012. Trip leader to Art Loeb Trail, Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina, June 2013. Trip leader to West Rim Trail, Pine Canyon, Pennsylvania, June 2011. Trip leader to Tinnerman Canoe Base, Canadian French River, June 2009. Scoutmaster Training Award, 2011. Read my Letter to the LDS Church on Homosexual Membership in the BSA. An article about the ban in The Shakerite.

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Uncommon Dissent: Church Service

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Stake Auditor (July 2011 - Present). Ward Sunday School Presidency (January 2012 - November 2013). Ward Clerk (May 2008 - August 2011). Ward Missionary (September 2007 - May 2008). Ward Young Men Presidency (June 2005 - July 2007). Temple Ordinance Worker (June 2004 - July 2007). Stake Young Single Adult Representative (June 2003 - November 2005). Branch Executive Secretary (December 2002 - June 2003). Missionary, Ukraine, Kyiv Mission (October 2000 - October 2002). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Uncommon Dissent: Buckeye Trail

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Check back here to see my progress on hiking the Buckeye Trail. Free goal tracking widget. If you zoom in on the northwest portion of the trail, you'll eventually see the progress I have made (it isn't much yet, so zoom in far). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Best Things in LIfe. In 2005 I married my stellar wife Janelle. Together we live in Cleveland, OH with our two perfect daughters, Bug and Bird. Life doesn't get better than filling the days with hide-and-seek, tag, LEGOs, and Doctor Who.

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Uncommon Dissent: I Am Sad Today

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. I Am Sad Today. It's a beautiful day in Kentucky. The Sun has been out and the landscape is lush and green. I managed to successfully organize all of my documentation for work today in a new R package that should make a very smooth process for compiling our required reports. And I got to run around the back yard with the girls and play board games with Julie. It really seems like the perfect day. But I am sad. Are we celebrating this? Even when it is justified, it is wrong. The a...

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Uncommon Dissent: May 2014

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Friday, May 30, 2014. The Church's public affairs department sent an open letter to mormon blogs yesterday. You can read it for yourself. There are parts of it I like, and parts of it I don't. That being said, if you're going to claim that you're not meeting with extreme groups, then don't meet with extreme groups. And yes, Mormon Women Stand is. Doesn't leave much space for doubt and concern. The expectation of unequivocal. Sure, we have "leadership training" meetings pretty much every stake conference&...