The movie Amazing Grace is based on the true story of William Wilberforce who was elected a British MP (Member of Parliament) at the age of 21, and spent the rest of his life working as a reformer to end the British slave trade.
The Song “Amazing Grace”
When William Wilberforce was a child, his pastor was […]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by admin
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The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption took effect in the U.S. on April 1, 2008. As such, the United States now partners with 75+ countries around the world in this convention to facilitate international adoption.
The U.S. implementation of this Convention has been the catalyst for […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by admin
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In Built to Last, the authors identified “Visionary” companies which met very rigorous standards of sustained greatness. The authors did not find any specific ideological content as being essential in these visionary companies. However, the authors did find that it was essential that the companies have a core ideology of some sort, and […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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A few months ago, the More Good Foundation built the GordonHinckley.com website. As I helped research content for that site, I read the following quote in Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley which stood out to me:
There is a loneliness in all aspects of leadership. . . It was ever thus. The price of […]
Posted on April 6th, 2008 by admin
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The movie Mary Poppins was the pinnacle of Walt Disney’s movie career. He did all of his magical tricks that had made him famous in this one film. After the movie’s successful debut, Walt said “Maybe the employees will now have a feeling that I know what I’m doing.”
In the movie there […]
Posted on March 30th, 2008 by admin
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Last Monday I began a 2-year MBA program at Brigham Young University, and all of last week I participated in an intensive, full-time introduction to the program. I was thoroughly surprised and impressed by the quality of the teaching and am excited to be able to be able to learn from such high-quality professors.
Some […]
Posted on August 5th, 2007 by admin
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My favorite scripture is James 1:27 (KJV) “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” I believe that the point of religion is not to spend a lifetime going to church or studying […]
Posted on June 9th, 2007 by admin
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Recently, a large adoption organization hired a new president. A few months ago I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and several members of his staff while attending an adoption tradeshow in Texas. I stick out a little in the child welfare community because of my conservative political views in a […]
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by admin
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