The temple-building push went into hyperdrive after President Russell M. Nelson became head of the church in January 2018. About half of new temples have been built since then. Nelson, who turned 100 in September, named 15 new temple locations during a conference la...
I wasn’t blind. I was able to see his partially toothless smile and look around at his barefoot children and grandchildren. His home had spotty electricity. If there were zoning or building codes in the neighborhood I would have been shocked. I had walked to his home part way on dirt ...
Summary:The Wikipedia article on LDS temples asserts that the phrase “Holiness to the Lord” was inscribed “on the Old Testament Temple of Solomon.”[3]However, so far as we know, the phrase was never used as part of any ancient building. It is unique to modern temples. In this artic...
Tithing is considered a debt.[2] However, it is also an entrance fee—only full-tithe paying members are allowed to enter the Church's most holy place, the temple, and participate in important saving ordinances.Overview of LDS positionTithing is an ancient law practiced in Old Testament ...
A current "Hot News" item on Apple Computer's web site highlights the work of the effects team for the Church-produced film that is currently being shown in the Joseph Smith Building on Temple Square, titled "Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration"...More ...
and true to the commandments of the Lord, to become sons and daughters of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ; and in His presence to go on to a fulness and a continuation of the seeds forever, and perhaps through our faithfulness to have the opportunity of building worlds and peopling ...
In August, President Monson broke ground for the church’s temple in Hartford Connecticut and a few weeks later Elder Ronald A. Rasband presided over a groundbreaking inFort Collins, Colorado. For those who marvel at architectural feats, the nearly seven-million-pound exterior of a 112 year-ol...
“O God, our Eternal Father . . . we dedicate to Thee and Thy Beloved Son the Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We dedicate the grounds on which it stands with all its vegetation. We dedicate the building from the footings to the ...
AIDS Related Complex: The office building on the BYU campus that houses FARMS headquarters. Ala-mo: A Mormon who would rather die than surrender when surrounded by the evil forces of logic, reason, science and rational thought. A Mormon who has performed baptism for the dead on and in ...
Update: Video of the protest and press conference have been posted below.At 2pm this afternoon (Pacific time), a press conference was held at the LDS Temple in Los Angeles, where a protest had been organized by opponents of CA Proposition 8. To the media present, the woman sp...