No Joke

Did you hear the one about the Lutheran, the agnostic, the Jew, the Mormon, the Seventh-day Adventist, the woman, and the atheist? No? Good, because it's not a joke.

Just a group of kids, two of them my sons, playing Apples to Apples, talking, laughing, even discussing politics. They don't agree on everything — their opinions likely influenced by conversations they hear in their own homes — yet they patiently listen to one another. They think about each other’s comments, their average-sized egos not overinflated by flimsy experiences or the need to be right, and then they try to problem-solve. For a bit. Then someone says, "Wanna go back outside and play Capture the Flag?" So they do.

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Book Update:to Mormons, with LOVE is now also available at DeseretBook.com and the Kindle store. Other epub formats will be available any day.