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July 16, 2008 – 12:05 pm

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“WALL-E, the Religion of Environmentalism” at Millennial Star

July 12, 2008 – 10:48 pm

I just posted my review of the Disney/Pixar movie WALL-E over at Millennial Star.  See it here.  Be forewarned - I didn’t like it much.
Update (7/14/08): And, of course, since the issue is environmentalism, it eroded quickly.

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Another Video Preview of the New Twin Falls Temple

July 11, 2008 – 6:30 am

Here is another media preview of the new Twin Falls Temple that comes from Local News channel 8 in Idaho Falls and Pocatello Idaho. It gives more details concerning the murals in the garden room, painted by Rexburg artist Leon Parson. Parson skillfully included the Idaho Shoshone Falls in the depiction of the [...]

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Video Inside the New Twin Falls Temple

July 10, 2008 – 7:32 am

The Church has produced a short video for the media describing the newest temple of the Church in Twin Falls, Idaho, and the open house that will be occurring there from July 11th through August 16th, 2008 (8am-8pm, except Sundays and Mondays after 6pm).
This video comes from Times-News at MagicValley.com.  It is introduced by Elder [...]

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Educating the Media (and Others) about the LDS Temple

May 22, 2008 – 9:25 pm

The television station KREX Channel 5 from Grand Junction, Colorado, aired a news piece yesterday about the “Sacred Secrets of the LDS Church.” You can see the video above.
I think that the news anchors, save being as objective and unaffected as anchors could possibly be, did a decent job of trying to understand what [...]

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Olivewood: A Singular Bookstore

April 26, 2008 – 12:13 pm

I can’t remember where I originally heard about the new Olivewood bookstore. It may have been in the Bloggernacle somewhere - perhaps FAIR. In any case, I had heard enough about this store that I decided that I had to visit it. It is located at 3330 N University Ave. Suite C [...]

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John Tvedtnes on The Sacred in the Temple

February 14, 2008 – 1:56 pm

John A. Tvedtnes, senior resident scholar with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University, recently authored an article for Meridian Magazine entitled, “Secretive Mormonism.” He had some great comments about the esoteric versus exoteric nature of the LDS temple practices (emphasis is my own):
Commentators frequently refer to Mormon temple [...]

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