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The Meaning of the Church of the First-Born

October 23, 2008 – 9:53 pm

I was reading tonight a talk by Truman G. Madsen entitled, “Foundations of Temple Worship,” which he gave at a BYU-Idaho Devotional on October 26, 2004, shortly after the ordination of Elder David A. Bednar to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The talk is excellent, and highly recommended reading (or listening).  There was one [...]

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The “Mark” of Anointing

August 12, 2008 – 11:42 am

A few days ago I read a post by James over at his superb blog, Lehi’s Library, entitled, “Looking Beyond the Mark: Insights from Margaret Barker.”  In it, James refers to an excellent article by Kevin Christensen who talks about the Deuteronomist de-Christianizing of the Old Testament and Josiah’s reforms.  I thought he made some [...]

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