Daily Archives: January 7, 2010

Our Stupid Foreign Policy

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Brigham Young’s Vision of Joseph Smith

A couple weeks ago, I came across S. Faux’s post about the law of adoption in The History of Sealings within Families. His post caught my attention because two of my Danish ancestors – who were some…

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Endowment Ceremony

Writing in a book heralding the richness of women’s heritage in helping lay the foundation of the latter-day kingdom, Carol Cornwall Madsen quoted John A. Widtsoe who provided one of the most “explicit descriptions” of the LDS temple endowment ceremony.1

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Wilford Woodruff’s Testimony Video

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What is an Endowment?

What is an endowment? is an important question to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Simply put, an endowment is “A special spiritual blessing given to worthy and faithful members of the Church in the temple.”1

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Savior’s Appearance to Lorenzo Snow

In 1933, LeRoi C. Snow wrote about the Savior’s appearance to his father, Lorenzo Snow, within the confines of the Salt Lake Temple in 1898. At this time, Lorenzo Snow was the President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles and…

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Council of Fifty

Author: Godfrey, Kenneth W.

The Council of Fifty, a council formed in Nauvoo in 1844, provided a pattern of political government under priesthood and revelation. It was, to its members, the nucleus or focus of God’s latter-day kingdom.

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Principles

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The Constitution Hanging by a Thread

CONSTITUTION HANGING BY A THREAD STATEMENTS

The Historians Corner, BYU Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, p. 390
An occasional theme among Latter-day Saints during times of political crisis has been the prediction attributed to Joseph Smith that the U.S.…

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Vegas Shootout Caught on Tape

Jan. 4th, 2010: A gunman, who was eventually shot dead by police, opened fire in front of a federal building in downtown Las Vegas, killing at least one court officer.

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