I recently came across an outstanding music artist, Mindy Gledhill. I had listened to a couple samples of songs from her website, and I had to buy the CD. I got the CD today and was thoroughly impressed. I really liked the song, “Feather in the Wind.” It reminds me of [...]
Family Edited DVDs is liquidating their edited DVD inventory. They have a great deal going on right now. All the edited movies are half-price AND you get free shipping. However, because they are liquidating their business they require you to purchase a minimum of 10 DVDs. They say that the shipping [...]
We do not have cable television in our home; we canceled cable a year ago. We only get local channels, so rarely do we watch the popular cable TV shows. Besides, it is a “waste of time.” As Elder Uchtdorf said, “The nonessential things that take up time should be discarded, bad [...]
I recently got back from a trip to Europe, and I was appalled at the fact that the movies were not edited to remove vulgar and obscene content. The last flight I had been a few years. It has been standard practice in the airline industry for the past few decades to edit [...]
Teaching with movies is great, and teaching with edited movies is even better. Recently I encountered a website, Teach With Movies, that provides a way to use movies as an effective teaching method. This is a great way for teachers to supplement lesson plans for students K-12:
TeachWithMovies.org offers Movie Lesson Plans and Learning [...]
Everyone loves good clean movies. Now there is a place to get good movies online so that you can get an edited version of a movie that may have originally been “Rated R” or even “Rated PG-13″ by the MPAA. These movie ratings are ineffective and ultimately all fade together and blur the [...]
We had a Family Home Evening consisting of a lesson derived from Elder Ballard’s talk about the Effects of Television. The media’s influence in our lives become more and more damaging every day. You can read his general conference talk from nearly 20 years ago (available on the LDS Gospel Library website) and see how [...]

