Last updated on August 26th, 2025 at 09:41 pm
August 12, 2025
Here is the best thing I heard (What?), saw (Eye.), and read (Read.) this week, as well as the best idea (💡) I developed.
What?
- [Aaron Coombs] “[T]he story in Genesis is telling us why God created the earth. … [T]o really understand what’s being said in Genesis, put on the lenses of saying, ‘What is it telling you about why God creates the world?’ … [W]hen we get Genesis 1:26-27, we find out that God has created us in His image. And it’s beautiful because there’s an anthropomorphic truth there that we know, that we look like our heavenly parents, but there’s a deeper level that in the ancient world, when you took on someone’s image, your job was to act and behave like them, to reflect them. And so, actually, N.T. Wright, who’s a New Testament scholar, has read this as saying: It’s like a mirror. He was asking Adam and Eve to be mirrors to reflect Him into the world. We actually see this in the Book of Mormon, if you think about Alma 5:14, for example, where it says, ‘Have ye received his image in your countenances?’ So, from the very beginning, humans are set out as being the image bearers of God, to be like God, act like God and to reflect His purposes into the world.”
Eye.
LogRide – Theme Park Tracker app:
- I unexpectedly found the LogRide app last week, just in time for my family’s annual trip to Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah. When we pulled up Lagoon on the LogRide app, we were able to mark off each ride that we went on throughout the day. The app also includes information about each ride. For example, who knew that Cannibal reaches a top speed of 70 mph? Or that the Merry-Go-Round opened in 1893 (seriously?!)? This app made our experience at Lagoon even more enjoyable!
Read.
- “There was no Goodreads in 1962, the year Dan Pelzer … started keeping track of everything he read using a pen and paper. … By the time Pelzer died on July 1 at age 92, he had logged 3,599 books that he’d read between 1962 and 2023, the year his eyesight deteriorated. … Now, those reading logs are available to the public on what-dan-read.com. … Pelzer’s list doesn’t include the books he read prior to 1962. It also doesn’t include the Bible, which Pelzer read about a dozen times. … But it does shed light on who the Columbus man was. … ‘We know he was sometimes reading at work,’ Marci Pelzer explains. … ‘But he also read on the bus and everywhere he went. He always had a book open, a book in his hand. And it stimulated great conversations with all kinds of people.'”
💡
Start each General Conference Applied Podcast episode as follows: “Hello ye doers of the word. This is Mitch Peterson. (And I’m Clay Soelberg). And you’re listening to General Conference Applied. Thank you for joining us in this effort to become doers of the word and to take action on General Conference invitations.”