Posts Tagged ‘ Temple ’

How much is too much?  How much is not enough?  How often do you go to the temple?  Do you think you should go more often?  Why or why not? Discuss.

1 Sam 8:18-22 18  And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day. 19  ¶Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; [...]

Peggy Fletcher Stack of the Salt Lake Tribune said “that LDS women are scheduled, as of now [Mar 18, 2013], to offer invocations or benedictions at next month’s General Conference”.  Which session will it be?  Will it be an invocation, or benediction.  My bet is a benediction for the last session, so there won’t be [...]

I participated in temple sealing recently.  For those not familiar with a “Sealing” ordinance, Mormons believe that we can be bound to our spouses and families for not only this life, but the next life as well.  I participated in an early morning session and there was just one sister there, so she had to [...]

There is a saying that the LDS Temple is the University of the Lord.  Unlike a traditional university, there is no opportunity to ask questions, do homework, or take tests to evaluate if we are learning.  The learning in the temple is supposed to be personal.  What would you say are the biggest things you [...]

Mormons have the opportunity to submit names for special prayers in the temple.  The names are placed on the altars of the temple, and God is asked to bless those whose names lie on the altars of the temple.  I believe they are there for about 2 weeks before they are removed.

I was paying extra special attention to the words of the Sealing ceremony at the temple.  The words are nearly identical for both the man and the woman being sealed, but there is one interesting difference.  When a man is sealed to a woman, he is asked to “receive her unto yourself.”  When a woman [...]

Exodus 40:12-13 says 12  And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and wash them with water. 13  And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him and sanctify him;

Once again, I’m thinking about the temple.  Why do women wear veils, and why are they supposed to veil their faces when participating in the true order of prayer?  At a wedding, many women wear veils for the ceremony.  For a wedding, it seems to hold a bit of romance.  In Islam, it is a [...]

I’ve recently had occasion to attend the temple more often, and I have some questions.  In the temple, we have the opportunity to participate in the true order of prayer.  What exactly does that mean? Dictionary.com has 37 definitions that might fit.  I picked these 9.  How do you think they apply? What do you [...]

“Maps are powerful tools”, said John Hamer at the 2011 John Whitmer Historical Association meetings. His remarks have be published in the latest issue of the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal (Fall/Winter 2012). He goes on to say Beyond their capacity to dazzle, maps allow historians to organize information in a completely different way than [...]

I had the pleasure of attending the closed-circuit dedication of the Brigham City Temple yesterday afternoon.  My family was able to walk through the temple a few weeks ago.  While the architecture seems somewhat reminiscent of the Salt Lake Temple, it is one of the newer, much smaller temples that the church now builds.  Boyd [...]

The 2nd Article of Faith states: “We believe that men will be apunished for their bown sins, and not for Adam’s ctransgression.” In the temple, we learn that we can become clean from the “blood and sins of this generation.” If we’re only punished for our own sins, what does this phrase from the temple mean?  Does the 2nd Article [...]

Community of Christ does not follow its LDS cousins in having secret temple rituals. So I read last week’s post by Bored in Vernal, on the “Sacred Embrace As Five Points of Fellowship” with the curiosity of one who has never even been inside an LDS Temple. Much of the terminology was unfamiliar to me [...]

I often lament that modern Mormonism has lost portions of its early history. While some of these forms and concepts are best consigned to the trash-bin, others are sorely missed. I believe that there are traditions from our nineteenth-century past which have lost their significance because there has been a lack of understanding about their [...]

Today’s guest post is from Bloggernacle favorite EmJen who adapted an online quiz for a Mormon audience.  I thought it would be interesting to see what forms of worship speak most to us, the Wheat & Tares audience, individually and collectively.  Also, as you consider the results, are these typical for Mormons?  Are there some [...]

Will the church evolve to stop the train of apostasy? When the Sicans felt their religion had failed them, they burned their temples.

Our Mormon moment continues (click here for the best article I’ve seen on this one). Baptism for the dead is under scrutiny again, mostly due to 2 incidents:  1) baptizing holocaust victims (despite the church previously stating this would not happen), and 2) Mitt Romney’s family proxy baptizing wife Ann’s father who was a vocal [...]

There is a man in your ward who moved in about a year ago. He is separated from his wife and is working through a divorce. He tells you that they have been “emotionally” divorced for many years, and that his grown children have wondered why he took so long to finalize the divorce.  For [...]

As I was researching a post last summer on some of the organizations that have sprung up in the stead of the RLDS movement as fundamentalist alternatives to the Community of Christ, I discovered that a childhood friend had become one of the leading officials of one such organization, the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of [...]