I watched an interesting show last night, Secret America on Discovery, and learned some interesting things. One of them was that there is a large fresco painted on the inside of the dome of the rotunda of the United States Capitol Building. It is called “The Apotheosis of Washington” and was painted by an Italian [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Tagged art, building, celestial, exaltation, fathers, government, hands, heaven, immortality, ordinances, president, signs, vicarious
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Now that is an odd thing to say, and sounds silly, yet it is precisely what some of our critics claim members of the Church are doing, especially in the design and function of our temples. This is the premise of a great new blog post by James Carroll at Amateur Scriptorians called “The Language [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Temples Today
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Tagged church, critics, design, devils, evil, representation, satan, satanic, symbolism, symbols, worship
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In case you missed it, the inexhaustible Hugh Nibley is still hard at work churning out volume after volume of incredibly insightful reading material on a host of subjects relevant to the Church. As I heard one person remark, “Hugh Nibley wouldn’t let a little thing like death slow him down!” Indeed, the presses are [...]
Some of you may remember my paper The Genesis of the Round Dance that I posted early in the life of TempleStudy.com. It was a paper I wrote for a BYU Dance Department Symposium a few years ago that addressed the ancient ubiquitous practice of ring dancing, particularly as connected with religious worship and prayer. [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Scholarship
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Tagged ancients, BYU, christian, dance, israelites, margaret barker, papers, Practices, research, ring dance, round dance, scholar, symposium
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I’ve been taking notes this morning at the Sacred Space symposium at BYU, and was thinking of posting my scribbles. But instead of reinventing the wheel, you might want to check out the great notes at the Juvenile Instructor blog. Jared and Ben are doing a fantastic job over there of summarizing the presentations. I [...]
