August 30, 2008 – 12:03 am
Recently my wife was reading a book entitled A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith when she came across a passage which was interesting that she shared with me: One day, Hildy asked Johnny to bring someone for Katie, her girl friend, the next time they went dancing. Johnny obliged. The four of [...]
August 13, 2008 – 6:07 am
I came across a talk from President Brigham Young that was deeply insightful, and I want to share a portion. It is from an address he gave on August 24, 1872 in Farmington, Utah, and reported by David W. Evans. In it President Young describes the ordinances of the temple, and the many ordinances that [...]
Someone recently asked me the following: Perhaps you can explain how a person who finds the [temple experience] to be … troubling should express those feelings. This was my reply, with additional edits:
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Temples Today
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Also tagged atonement, discussion, early christian, experience, joseph smith, life, moses, oxford, prayer, purpose, rites, rituals, sacred, tabernacle, testimony
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(Continued from Part 3) In the last parts of our series on the Egyptian hieroglyph of the ankh, and other related symbols, I’d like to look at where these symbols are found on the extant portions of the Joseph Smith Papyri, related documents, and the facsimiles of the Book of Abraham, to see if Joseph [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged bruce r. mcconkie, coronation, critics, egyptian, exaltation, hieroglyph, hugh nibley, imitation, immortality, joseph smith, joseph smith papyri, resurrection, rituals, symbols, translation, tutankhamun
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Note: This was going to be the next part of the series on the Egyptian ankh, and its relationship with the papyri and Book of Abraham, but I thought an intro to these first would be a better place to start. Let’s return again to the subject of the ankh, and related symbols, that we’ve [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged abraham, book, egyptian, farms, fragments, hieroglyph, hugh nibley, john gee, joseph smith, lecture, olivewood, symbols, translation
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