Temple – Main Street Plaza

Joseph Smith as Peeping Tom

December 12, 2018 Faraday5

by “Faraday” This essay hopes to solve a great mystery: the origins of the naked part of the endowment. The mystery Most people know that the signs and tokens of the temple come from Freemasons. And the Adam and Eve part comes from the book of Genesis. But where do the washings and anointings come […]

Repurposing Temples

April 5, 2014April 5, 2014 profxm3

Maybe others have thought about this before and I’m late to the game, or maybe mind is just weird, but I saw this press release from LDS Inc. about their new temple in Fort Lauderdale and a thought struck me. Â Already in some areas, churches are being repurposed as more and more people are leaving […]

A two-minute primer on Mormon culture

August 16, 2012 chanson1

Seriously, if you want to know what Mormons are like, this little human-interest story sums it up a lot better than Kolob jokes and tales of the church’s corporate earnings: