by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 3, 2016 | for Good, for Spirit, Simple Family Home Evening Ideas
The world is full of idols, athletes, entertainers, people famous for no reason at all, and people famous for all the wrong reasons. It's easy for our kids to get lost in the glamour and glitz and to idolize people whose examples are not worthy of being emulated. Some...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 21, 2014 | for Love, for Spirit
Business 101 My first day in business school I learned about opportunity cost. It blew my mind. (I was young.) The opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone, in a situation in which a choice needs to be made between several mutually...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 9, 2014 | Videos of Jesus Christ
This isn't a video about Jesus Christ. It's actually a life insurance commercial. Yea, I know, right? But it really is one of the best videos of Jesus Christ ever, without intending to be. Because the least of these is always him. About a decade ago I read a life...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 3, 2014 | Videos of Jesus Christ
Sitting on the far end of the row of chairs in Sunday School — trying to avoid Bob at all costs — our teacher told the parable of the good Samaritan. “When can you be a good Samaritan?” he asked. “When can you be kind to someone who is...
by Alison Moore Smith | Aug 21, 2013 | for Money
There is a right way and a wrong way to provide customer service. One is to behave like a prima donna and the other is to recognize that in America — for the time being at least — people can choose which businesses to spend their hard-earned money and which to...