Short Bio
Luke is a certified leadership coach and graduated from Brigham Young University in Communications, focusing on the psychology of cognition and sub-conscious decision-making. He is engaged in projects that strengthen the integrity of his community and foster a spirit of civic pluralism and respect.
He has spoken at stake firesides, summer camps, and conferences on topics ranging from the underlying causes behind political leanings and why cooperation is necessary to the American social fabric, to religious devotion and finding joy. He is focused on creating relationships with people who take action to make the world a more harmonious place.
Statement of Ethics: here
"Objectivity is never possible, the best we can do is develop a well-informed subjectivity, aware of our own bias and prejudice, and with a recognition of human dignity and by extension gratitude for our ability to choose, we then seek to use our agency to the best of our capacity...Through the spirit of pluralistic cooperation, argumentation, the dynamic web of intellectual checks and balances, as our individual biases are exposed to our collective intellect, the totality of human desires can inch closer to the throne of truth – or things as they really are."
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one of my poems
We stand at our cliffs, our terrifying abyss of freedom, shouting into the eternal void our hopes and dreams, hoping for a response to call our destiny.
But too oft our call never comes,
We stand at the edge wanting an ounce of certainty,
a piece of truth, a guiding star to our liking.
Certainty is a horizon we walk towards but never reach,
for safety is a siren’s call,
and with too much of it we cry for the risk of freedom.
And we as these eternal beings stand in living contradiction,
Between the two infinities that stretch in two directions.
To be safe or to be free,
God tell me where I am supposed to be,
give me a map for my life,
show to me my destiny.
A response comes from beyond the void,
Behind the curtain of the elements;
an undesired answer to my paradox of sentiments.
Fear not my child,
and yet do fear,
for in a paradox I’ve placed you,
this so that you may manifest the miracle of virtue.
Eternity in an unbroken line of choices,
the paths are given you to choose.
— the peace you seek won’t come with certainty,
but when you are unafraid to lose.
Seek your life and you shall lose it,
in the scriptures it is written.
— my only test I have for you is to stand tall in the abyss of your freedom.
And when the blanket of safety warms and lulls your soul to sleep,
Your eyes for life begin to shut,
and angels start to weep,
It’s the awakened soul with minds wide open that qualified my flock — so in your storm step on the water — arise my child and walk.