Doubt is OK and God Is Not a Butler

Watching LDS General Conference reminds me of sifting through rice in Peru, looking for the bad grains to discard. It can be tedious, but when it’s over you have accomplished a task, and even learned a thing or two. … Who writes those conference talk summaries in the Des News? They are so bland that they must be e-mailed to the editors by LDS public affairs. I say that because the summary of apostle Elder David A. Bednar’s talk omitted the most important point he made: which is that to doubt is perfectly natural. In fact, Bednar went even further, suggesting that rote declarations of certainty of principles is unhealthy.

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