About

This blog is one average person’s attempt to contemplate what it means to live a meaningful, faithful life.

Faith and family are important to me, so those will be frequent topics on this blog. Faith doesn’t come easily for me, but I find the process of wrestling with my faith to be a worthy pursuit. Other topics that will be discussed on this blog include science, politics, art, and technology — basically anything that makes life interesting.

I am an active, believing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (We are often referred to as “Mormons,” but that term is now disfavored.) Some of the topics discussed on this blog will be specifically related to the Church and its teachings.

Lowell Bennion once said, “Faith should not be considered a substitute for knowledge. Whenever knowledge is available, it should be used. For it is generally better to live by knowledge in particular things than by faith, if knowledge is available. … Let [us] gain and use knowledge where it is available. Let [us] walk by faith where knowledge is not available. Let [our] faith include, but transcend [our] knowledge.”

I admire and try to emulate this perspective with my own approach to life. The title of this blog — In Fide Scientiam — means “to our faith add knowledge.”

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