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Running Champion Bernard Lagat and Nandi Initiation

February 6, 2010 – 6:28 pm

It is fascinating to me all the places that I hear or see or read glimpses of temple theology, the “scattered fragments” of ritual tradition.  As Nibley found out, and taught extensively, these remnants are found all around us, everywhere.  My wife was listening to the radio on the way to the grocery store last [...]

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Temple the Source of All Civilization

March 20, 2008 – 6:08 am

Professor Hugh Nibley often taught that the temple was the source of many of the institutions, forms, and trappings of our modern-day society. He once remarked: There is no part of our civilization which doesn’t have its rise in the temple. Nibley also made the comments: So poetry, music, and dance go out to the [...]

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