My life? Is still in that half-thought out stage, I?m afraid. I?m a recent college graduate (in English). I could go on at some length about how funny the modernists are and, oh, did you know that grammarians write massive papers on the proper use of disinterested? However, that is about the extent of my major accomplishments for the moment. I graduated from college. (Well, I am also the Relief Society pianist, and, considering how rusty I am with the piano, playing the hymns without completely slaughtering them is also an accomplishment.)

But blogging, this I have done for some time?which is not to say that my blogs were initially religious. I?ve been asked to blog in previous jobs and got a reputation for composing impromptu beat poetry alongside less structured (if perhaps more coherent) posts.

But then I became aware of how much negative information there was out there about the Church?oh, I was raised out of Utah and I had any number of friends who thought I was probably going to hell for my beliefs. So I knew that Mormons were not universally accepted as Christian or saved from a young age.

However, the Internet took my youthful experience and exaggerated it. My conversations with my friends were private and personal things. The websites I came across were addressed to the world and far more vicious to the Church than my friends ever were. And, what was worse, people were clicking on them. They came up first or second or fifth (or all of the above) on Google, after all.

I would promote the truth about Mormonism over what those who hate the Church would say about it. I think this is a worthy cause. This is why I blog.

And this is why I blog about the basics. A majority of my friends are not members of the Church. I want to present the precepts and doctrines in a way that?s friendly and understandable to people who don?t have my background. I can only hope that, through the Spirit, I can accomplish that.

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