Roger Knecht » Temples http://www.rogerknecht.com God, Family & Country Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:44:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Meaning of the Temple http://www.rogerknecht.com/2012/01/15/the-meaning-of-the-temple/ http://www.rogerknecht.com/2012/01/15/the-meaning-of-the-temple/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:27:40 +0000 rknecht http://www.rogerknecht.com/?p=18453 Hugh W. Nibley

Reprinted by permission from Temple and Cosmos, volume 12 in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1992), 1—41. – ORIGINAL POST

Recently in our family night, I was…

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A Mormon’s View of God’s Starry Universe
Lynn M. Hilton, PhD, Author
With helpful additions by William M. Boushka, MD

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE FUTURE GLORY OF MANKIND
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An increasing rate of young adults in the United States seems to have cold feet when it comes to marriage.

For the first time in recent history, adults between 25 and 34 years of age who are

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In memory of Matthew Brown

“It is doubtful whether Joseph sensed the truly staggering implications of his endowment system,” Fawn Brodie wrote in her imaginative 1945 biography of Joseph Smith. “Upon his church now rested…

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Another brick in the wall: the site of the First Temple excavations

Claiming one in the eye for the Palestinian trend of “Temple denial”, Israeli archaeologists are preparing, for the first time, to open buildings from the First…

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The following are some of the Bastians’ thoughts about key things that help build a strong and lasting marriage:

Morris and Elaine Bastian on their wedding day, 50 years ago.
Provided by Laura Brotherson
Morris and Elaine Bastian on their wedding

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