Random Posts
“The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.” (Lord, I Believe, April 2013 General Conference) What…
Alonzo L. Gaskill, an assistant professor of Church history and doctrine at BYU, brilliantly debunks the “Seal of Melchizedek” myth while sustaining the idea that, yes, we can create our own new meanings for symbols in our day.
I would like to address the subject of modern idolatry in the form of wars of aggression, near-eastern emperor-vassal covenants, and voting your conscience. The following is an excerpt from Spencer W. Kimball’s classic talk The False Gods We Worship.…
The “Conversion Spectrum” in the Book of Mormon
Sometime around the turn of the century when I was serving as a full-time missionary, I discovered something that I’ve wanted to dive into more over the years and produce some kind of spectrum-like chart. Well, I’m still not there…
Stained Glass
Picture in your mind’s eye a beautiful stained glass window where light from the sun passes through a collection of colored panes that transform the light into something wonderful. Church is like the window and we are like those colored panes. When we come…
New Post Updates
Climbspiration
The beauty of symbols is that God can use them to teach us what we have the capacity to receive. One will see a shape, another will see a sign, and yet another will understand the elements of eternity.
POPULAR POSTS
- The Meaning of Isaiah 4:1 and Seven Women Taking Hold of One Man 278 views
- Where Blind Faith Ends 272 views
- A Proposed Reinterpretation of Jacob 2:30 51 views
- The NEW LDSSymbols.com 37 views
- Joseph Smith on Truth 36 views
- The universe in the diatonic musical scale 31 views
- Discovering sacred teachings in LDS Chapel architecture 30 views
Book of Mormon
View All700th Post!
Desire, Believe and Ponder
Speaking Hard Things
“They think they are wise…”
Korihor and Modern Influencer Culture
I’ve been reading and enjoying Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man” and pulled a few great quotes on natural and civil rights – good stuff.
60 Great quotes on war
Virtue in the people
Interpreters and Combinations
Has the final thread snapped?
Check out the full video of my presentation at Rootstech titled Journaling Principles That Work. I’m posting this here having not had the chance to actually watch the whole thing, I’ve only seen the first 2o minutes or so, but…
Blogroll
- A Traditional Architecture Glossary
- Academy for Temple Studies
- Book of Mormon Onomasticon
- Bruce Charlton's Notions
- Historical Monogamy
- Interpreter Foundation
- Isaiah Explained
- Isaiah Explorer
- Isaiah Institute
- Isaiah Prophecy
- Junior Ganymede
- Latter-day Saint Architecture Blog
- Latter-day Saint Temples
- LDSSymbols.com
- Leading Saints
- Number in Scripture by E. W. Bullinger
- Search tool for the Bible
- Search tool for the Book of Mormon
- Strongs Concordance
- TempleStudy
- The Ancient Context of Joseph Smith's Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar
- Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Recent Comments