November 11, 2008 – 11:20 pm
Last Friday I was able to attend the symposium entitled “Temples and Ritual in Antiquity,” sponsored by The Students of the Ancient Near East (SANE) and the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University. It was an excellent symposium about the temple, with a wide range of topics related to the temple presented by students [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged apostasy, architecture, asian, BYU, early christian, egyptian, imagery, incense, lecture, liturgy, matthew brown, near east, prayer circle, priesthood, rituals, SANE, scholar, symposium, tabernacle, video
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October 8, 2008 – 11:40 am
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: [...]
October 3, 2008 – 10:00 pm
In my most ambitious liveblogging yet, I’m going to attempt to liveblog General Conference. I must admit, this will probably be more of a notetaking project for me than anything else, but it might turn into something interesting and fun if we start getting other people participating online here (like you!). You will be able [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Tidbits
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Also tagged apostles, blogging, church, discussion, fun, general conference, liveblogging, prophet, talk, video
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September 18, 2008 – 7:50 pm
Check out the new Mormon.org website that was launched today. It is very clean and well designed, a big improvement over the former website. A great new feature of the site that I’m sure will be used a lot is that visitors from anywhere in the world will be able to chat live with missionaries [...]
September 10, 2008 – 1:22 pm
(Continued from Part 2) Having found the mosaics from Ravenna, Italy, that displayed this symbol in connection with Melchizedek, I wanted to do some more research to see if I could find the symbol mentioned anywhere else. And, of course, I went to the best tool for online research – Google. The difficulty with using [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Also tagged BYU, church, david, design, google, melchizedek, priesthood, san diego temple, seal, solomon, symbols
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