March 12, 2009 – 10:56 am
The late Krister Stendahl (1921-2008), who was a Swedish theologian, New Testament scholar, and a Professor and Dean of Divinity at Harvard University, once addressed the press about one of the Mormon temples that was being built nearby, and spoke about three important rules for religious understanding. These rules have since been recognized for their [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged big love, church, dialogue, discussion, endowment, interfaith, interview, investigators, krister stendahl, learn, religion, sacred, scholar, temples, video, videos, watch, youtube
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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 [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged BYU-I, celestial, exaltation, faith, firstborn, jesus christ, john, ordinances, priesthood, promises, seal, truman g. madsen
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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, online, prophet, 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 [...]
Mormon Thoughts About the Temple Using Google Voice
So, we’re going to try something a little different and creative, something that I haven’t seen done anywhere else on the internet, and certainly not in the Bloggernacle, so we’re setting a new precedent here. You get to hear so much from me, but we don’t often get to hear from you, the readers, except [...]