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The Church’s Newsroom has reported that after 19 months of remodeling the Mexico City Temple will be reopened for public tours, after which it will be rededicated on Sunday, November 16th, 2008. Guided [...]
Dr. Kathy Larsen has been a regular reader, commenter, friend, and selfless supporter of TempleStudy.com and many others, and has sadly been recently told that her cancer is returning. It sounds like it may have been in remission for a time, but is now coming back. We would just like to get the word out [...]
One of our readers, Walt, emailed me a link to a fable that is intriguing. It is entitled “The Wolf, The Goat, And The Kid,” and was originally penned by the popular 17th century French poet and fabulist Jean de la Fontaine.
THE WOLF, THE GOAT, AND THE KID
by Jean de la Fontaine
As went the goat [...]
Just a couple days ago I came across a sculpture that caught my attention. Although unsigned and undated, it is widely believed that it was created by the Flemish sculptor and medallist Guillielmus Paludanus in 1567 as part of a chimney mantelpiece at his home in Antwerp, Belgium. It is described as espousing the virtue [...]
The BYU Religious Studies Center has posted a new webpage with information about the Students of the Ancient Near East Symposium entitled “Temples and Ritual In Antiquity” that will be taking place at BYU on November 7th. They have the date, time, location, maps, schedule, phone number, flyer, and other information available. See it here:
http://www.rsc.byu.edu/comingSoonAntiqua.php
I’m [...]
The Church released new details yesterday about the five new temples that will be built, including locations. I’ve linked the approximate locations to Google Maps below. Please let me know if any of the linked maps are incorrect:
The Philadelphia temple will be built in downtown Philadelphia, at North Broad Street between Hamilton Street and Noble [...]
The account of the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Bible is relatively succinct, particularly in the vocal exchanges between the serpent, Eve, and Adam (bolded below). What details we know of the Fall come primarily from chapter 3 of Genesis:
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which [...]
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