Tagged with "Jerusalem"
Mormons experience Easter in the Holy Land
MR says: One BYU professor said, “(Local Christians) are kind of undercover most of the time, but at Easter time and Christmastime they literally come out of the woodwork to celebrate.” During the month of December, Christians participate in various service activities and worship in their religious sects...
BYU students get wintry welcoming party in Jerusalem
MR says: Jerusalem has also seen a pretty harsh winter. What it would be like to visit the BYU Jerusalem Center! Camels. Semitic languages. Shawarma. Falafel. And snow? BYU students who plan to spend a semester at the Jerusalem Center are ready for new experiences, but the students who arrived two weeks ago...
The Manger of Bethlehem
MR says: A beautiful new Christmas song with a nativity scene that really shows Joseph's love as a husband and father.
The story behind the The Piano Guys' Christmas Mormon Channel video
MR says: If you haven't seen the video yet, you can watch it here. For each video The Piano Guys have...
Video Tour: Christmas in the Holy Land
MR says: From Jerusalem, Dr. Eric Huntsman, associate professor of ancient scripture at BYU's Jerusalem Center, gives a video tour and scriptural account of Christ's birth.
Mormons unite Muslims, Jews at BYU’s Jerusalem Center
On Thanksgiving eve, a common table was set for members of two often-at-odds religious groups (Muslims and Jews) in a place riddled with conflict (Jerusalem) staged at a site sponsored by a third faith (Mormons). The diners — all workers at Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center — came...
Shapers of Nations and Humblers of Empires
Of anywhere you can visit, the Holy Land is the most spiritually refreshing and soul sustaining. There is no trip one can experience in the world as spiritually refreshing as the Holy Land. There is something wonderfully unique in walking, as we say, in the footsteps of Jesus. Galilee, the Garden...
Mitt Romney and Mormon culture
MR says: The author says religion should be a part of politics because religious worldviews do inform decisions and shape understanding. An interesting thought. Mitt Romney, speaking last week in Jerusalem, shows why religion is and ought to be part of our campaign discourse—not the pointless question of...
Romney on Israel: More GOP Than LDS
MR says: This Islamic Studies BYU professor doesn't think Romney explained his comment on the economics of Israel (or how they relate to his LDS faith) very well. Here's why... When Mitt Romney claimed “culture” and the “hand of Providence” led to Israel’s economic superiority over the Palestinians...
Mitt Romney's Mormon church has close connections to Israel
MR says: Ideologically, Mormons, perhaps even more than other Christian faiths, feel connected to Israel. While Romney's trip was politically oriented, it carried with it the influence of his Mormon faith. Romney has said that "there's no question (my experiences in the church) helped shape my perspective"...
Reviving the language of Jesus' time
Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East. The new focus on the region's dominant language 2,000 years ago comes with a little help from...
Explore Old Jerusalem on Google Maps Street View
MR says: This is pretty cool. Many LDS people who’ve visited the Holy Land will tell you that it deepened their understanding of the the scriptures in a big way. Being able to walk the same places where Old and New Testament figures, including Christ himself, once walked, changes their perspective and...
A week on an archaeological dig in Israel is a messy but interesting Biblical lesson
4 a.m. My eyes feel heavy. Today is my second day of digging. I'm in Israel for a week-long archaeological dig — not your regular vacation, but one that brought fulfillment and surprisingly more rest than I've gotten sitting on the beach. Richard Stamps, a professor of anthropology, and Mike...
An Apostle, a Prayer, and a People
In an almost-unnoticed ordinance, in 1841, Elder Orson Hyde dedicated Palestine for the return of the Jews. History has shown the impact of that day. The news media give us pictures and words of people who seem to control world events. But in the long run, it is God's hand that presides. His hand...
LDS Church to blitz YouTube, Facebook with messages of Jesus Christ on Easter weekend
MR says: I love that the Church is doing this. Wouldn't it be awesome if all members shared the videos this weekend on their own social media? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is planning to blitz the world of social media this weekend with a new media campaign aimed at helping "those not of...
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