September 26, 2008 – 8:44 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!Part 2 of liveblogging the Third Nephi Conference at BYU.
September 26, 2008 – 5:48 pm
This is a liveblog of the conference entitled “Third Nephi: New Perspectives on an Incomparable Scripture,” which is taking place at Brigham Young University on September 26-27, 2008, from 6:30pm on the 26th to about noon on the 27th. See my previous post on the subject, or the program of the conference here. Note: Those [...]
August 19, 2008 – 4:23 pm
Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve gave the devotional address at the beginning of Education Week at Brigham Young University today. Deseret News reported on his talk.
His talk was mainly about gaining knowledge through a lifetime of learning, especially spiritual knowledge. He used the example of Michael Phelps Olympic gold records [...]
[Update/Disclaimer (8/1/08 8:10pm MDT): Because of the different use of the term "liberal" that President Lee uses in this talk, in contrast to the common modern political usage, care should be taken when reading it. President Lee's use of "liberal" was strictly used in the sense of a standard of living the gospel, and is [...]
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Also tagged apostles, church, faithfulness, general conference, harold b. lee, intellectualism, organization, philosophy, principles, prophet, restoration, testimony, truth, worldly
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(Continued from Part 3)
Some more tidbits of information from Wells’ The Oxford Degree Ceremonies that might interest you:
The oath or charge to “observe the ’statutes, privileges, customs and liberties’ of his university” and the accompanying affirmation “Do fidem” (”I swear”) are most likely over 700 years old, and initially were important to keep a unity [...]
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices
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Also tagged cap, ceremony, clothing, commencement, degrees, graduation, marks, marriage, matriculation, mystery, oath, oxford, robe, symbol
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(Continued from Part 2)
For those of you who don’t want to wade through my analysis of the Oxford degree ceremony in the last part, or if you’d just like to see what the presentation is like, the degree ceremony that took place on September 28, 2007 at Oxford University was formally videotaped and posted on [...]
(Continued from Part 1)
Dr. Hugh Nibley’s opening remarks in his earthshaking address, “Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift,” given at the BYU commencement ceremony on August 19, 1983, would have fit even more perfectly in an Oxford setting. In refering to his statement in a commencement prayer he gave in 1960 in which he [...]
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Posted in Practices
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Also tagged cap, ceremony, clothing, commencement, degrees, endowment, hands, hugh nibley, initiate, mace, money, oath, oxford, robe, test, vicarious
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The University of Oxford in Oxford, England is “the oldest university in the English-speaking world”. It is also one of the “world’s leading academic institutions”. Its history dates back to the 11th century CE, and its Christian ties are evident from its crest which reads “The Lord is my Light” in Latin. When an argument [...]
