The Cultural Hall Podcast Richie T Steadman
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Mormon/Latter Day Saint, Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All are welcome here. We are a weekly show willing to talk about everything from a believer standpoint. Helping you not feel alone. Helping to answer questions you may not even know you had. Temple, Garments, religious, cultural, general conference, prophet, all things to do with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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785 Holy (or Spy) Wednesday Andrew Skinner and Kerry Muhlestein
In this episode Andrew Skinner and Kerry Muhlestein discuss the events of Holy (or Spy) Wednesday. The talk about how we don’t know very much about what happened on this day, and explore the possibility that the Last Supper may have taken place on Wednesday, rather than Thursday.
Find Kerry Muhlestein’s other TCH interviews and books here:
Episode 407 & I Saw the Lord: Joseph’s First Vision Combined from Nine Accounts
Episode 490 & God Will Prevail: Ancient Covenants, Modern Blessings, and the Gathering of Israel
Episode 778 & The Easter Connection
Holy Week Episodes So Far:
Palm Sunday
Holy Monday
Holy Tuesday
Some of Kerry Muhlestein’s books below (click the covers).
Kerry Muhlestein is a Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU with a Ph.D. in Egyptology and Hebrew Language and Literature from UCLA. He is the Director of the BYU Egypt Excavation Project. He hosts the podcast The Scriptures Are Real.
He is also the author of many books, including Learning to Love Isaiah, which helps us understand Isaiah in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon.
He has also written extensively about the Abrahamic Covenant and the Book of Abraham. He has six children and one grandson.
Andrew C. Skinner was a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University when this was written. Born and raised in Colorado, he earned his BA degree in history from the University of Colorado. He then earned an MA degree from the Iliff School of Theology in Jewish studies and a ThM degree from Harvard in biblical Hebrew. He did graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He earned a PhD from the University of Denver in Near Eastern and European history specializing in Judaism.
Skinner taught for four years at Ricks College and has filled three assignments at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, where he served as a faculty member and taught Near Eastern studies. He has served as director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, dean of Religious Education, and chair of the Department of Ancient Scripture. He is the author or coauthor of over one hundred publications, including Jerusalem: The Eternal City; New Testament Apostles Testify of Christ; Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: The Unidentified Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 (an analysis of all the unidentified Hebrew and Aramaic Dead Sea Scroll texts); Scriptural Parables for the Latter Days; and Gethsemane.
The Scriptures are Real YouTube
The Scriptures are Real Podcast
Out of the Dust
*This post contained Amazon affiliate links.
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784 Holy Tuesday Andrew Skinner and Kerry Muhlestein
In this episode Andrew Skinner and Kerry Muhlestein discuss the events of Holy Tuesday. They talk about finding the fig tree withered, and more of the Savior’s teachings at the temple, including His lament over the temple and how that led to His great prophecy about its destruction and the Last Days.
Find Kerry Muhlestein’s other TCH interviews and books here:
Episode 407 & I Saw the Lord: Joseph’s First Vision Combined from Nine Accounts
Episode 490 & God Will Prevail: Ancient Covenants, Modern Blessings, and the Gathering of Israel
Episode 778 & The Easter Connection
Holy Week Episodes So Far:
Palm Sunday
Holy Monday
Some of Kerry Muhlestein’s books below (click the covers).
Kerry Muhlestein is a Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU with a Ph.D. in Egyptology and Hebrew Language and Literature from UCLA. He is the Director of the BYU Egypt Excavation Project. He hosts the podcast The Scriptures Are Real.
He is also the author of many books, including Learning to Love Isaiah, which helps us understand Isaiah in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon.
He has also written extensively about the Abrahamic Covenant and the Book of Abraham. He has six children and one grandson.
Andrew C. Skinner was a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University when this was written. Born and raised in Colorado, he earned his BA degree in history from the University of Colorado. He then earned an MA degree from the Iliff School of Theology in Jewish studies and a ThM degree from Harvard in biblical Hebrew. He did graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He earned a PhD from the University of Denver in Near Eastern and European history specializing in Judaism.
Skinner taught for four years at Ricks College and has filled three assignments at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, where he served as a faculty member and taught Near Eastern studies. He has served as director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, dean of Religious Education, and chair of the Department of Ancient Scripture. He is the author or coauthor of over one hundred publications, including Jerusalem: The Eternal City; New Testament Apostles Testify of Christ; Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: The Unidentified Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 (an analysis of all the unidentified Hebrew and Aramaic Dead Sea Scroll texts); Scriptural Parables for the Latter Days; and Gethsemane.
The Scriptures are Real YouTube
The Scriptures are Real Podcast
Out of the Dust
*This post contained Amazon affiliate links.
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783 Holy Monday Andrew Skinner and Kerry Muhlestein
In this episode Andrew Skinner and Kerry Muhlestein discuss the events of Holy Monday. They talk about the cursing of the fig tree and the Savior’s teachings in the temple, including teachings about hypocrisy.
Find Kerry Muhlestein’s other TCH interviews and books here:
Episode 407 & I Saw the Lord: Joseph’s First Vision Combined from Nine Accounts
Episode 490 & God Will Prevail: Ancient Covenants, Modern Blessings, and the Gathering of Israel
Episode 778 & The Easter Connection
Holy Week Episodes:
Palm Sunday
Some of Kerry Muhlestein’s books below (click the covers).
Kerry Muhlestein is a Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU with a Ph.D. in Egyptology and Hebrew Language and Literature from UCLA. He is the Director of the BYU Egypt Excavation Project. He hosts the podcast The Scriptures Are Real.
He is also the author of many books, including Learning to Love Isaiah, which helps us understand Isaiah in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon.
He has also written extensively about the Abrahamic Covenant and the Book of Abraham. He has six children and one grandson.
Andrew C. Skinner was a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University when this was written. Born and raised in Colorado, he earned his BA degree in history from the University of Colorado. He then earned an MA degree from the Iliff School of Theology in Jewish studies and a ThM degree from Harvard in biblical Hebrew. He did graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He earned a PhD from the University of Denver in Near Eastern and European history specializing in Judaism.
Skinner taught for four years at Ricks College and has filled three assignments at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, where he served as a faculty member and taught Near Eastern studies. He has served as director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, dean of Religious Education, and chair of the Department of Ancient Scripture. He is the author or coauthor of over one hundred publications, including Jerusalem: The Eternal City; New Testament Apostles Testify of Christ; Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: The Unidentified Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 (an analysis of all the unidentified Hebrew and Aramaic Dead Sea Scroll texts); Scriptural Parables for the Latter Days; and Gethsemane.
The Scriptures are Real YouTube
The Scriptures are Real Podcast
Out of the Dust
*This post contained Amazon affiliate links.
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782 Palm Sunday
In this episode, Kerry Muhlestein and Andrew Skinner discuss what the Holy Week is, and why it is important, and why we should commemorate it. They talk about the traditions of other faiths and how it can and should be meaningful for Latter-day Saints. They then explore the meaning, and power of Palm Sunday, and how it can affect us today.
Find Kerry Muhlestein’s other TCH interviews:
Episode 407 & I Saw the Lord: Joseph’s First Vision Combined from Nine Accounts
Episode 490 & God Will Prevail: Ancient Covenants, Modern Blessings, and the Gathering of Israel
Episode 778 & The Easter Connection
Some of Kerry Muhlestein’s books below (click the covers).
Kerry Muhlestein is a Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU with a Ph.D. in Egyptology and Hebrew Language and Literature from UCLA. He is the Director of the BYU Egypt Excavation Project. He hosts the podcast The Scriptures Are Real.
He is also the author of many books, including Learning to Love Isaiah, which helps us understand Isaiah in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon.
He has also written extensively about the Abrahamic Covenant and the Book of Abraham. He has six children and one grandson.
Andrew C. Skinner was a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University when this was written. Born and raised in Colorado, he earned his BA degree in history from the University of Colorado. He then earned an MA degree from the Iliff School of Theology in Jewish studies and a ThM degree from Harvard in biblical Hebrew. He did graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He earned a PhD from the University of Denver in Near Eastern and European history specializing in Judaism.
Skinner taught for four years at Ricks College and has filled three assignments at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, where he served as a faculty member and taught Near Eastern studies. He has served as director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, dean of Religious Education, and chair of the Department of Ancient Scripture. He is the author or coauthor of over one hundred publications, including Jerusalem: The Eternal City; New Testament Apostles Testify of Christ; Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: The Unidentified Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 (an analysis of all the unidentified Hebrew and Aramaic Dead Sea Scroll texts); Scriptural Parables for the Latter Days; and Gethsemane.
The Scriptures are Real YouTube
The Scriptures are Real Podcast
Out of the Dust
*This post contained Amazon affiliate links. -
781 Spring ’24 #GenConf Temple Predictions
Temple Open House Begins
Manti Utah Temple
Media day on March 11th
Open House through April 5th
(Long lines on the weekends)
Because of the Staircases between the ordinance rooms, wheelchairs can’t be accommodated in these rooms.
It appears that the temple in Ephraim will primarily serve those patrons
Interior Photos
New curtains and Film screens with hanging projectors added to the ordinance rooms
Cushions added to the old benches
Large television screens added to the Terrestrial Room.
Rooms
Chapel with a 1906 a copy of Benard Plockhorst’s Jesus Blessing the Children – Baby Jesus with a man face
Hallway – Isaac Morely framed green apron.
Baptistry: Robert Shepard
Scenes from Baptism of Jesus, Oliver and Joseph, and the waters of Mormon
Dove painted on the ceiling above the font.
Scriptural verses from:
Matthew 3: 13-15
III Nephi 19:12-14
Pearl of Great Price 56:70
Not the first edition
Creation Room: C.C.A Christensen mural from 1886
Danish Convert in 1850 who studied at the Royal Art Institute of Copenhagen
Murals preserved despite being painted onto plaster. Layers of dirt, grime and plaster were removed.
Attempted to visualize the creation accounts in Genesis
Dinosaurs in creation murals
Copied out of the book: The world before the deluge
Garden Room: Robert Shepherd mural from 1944
Features many animals and the trees from the garden of eden
World Room Murals: Minerva Tiechert mural from 1947 – painted on canvas
First woman to be commissioned to paint a temple mural
Intimidated by the 60 ft long room, 24 ft high.
Contracted for $4000, including cost of the paint
Being only 5’2, 117 lbs, she found it exhausting to climb scaffolding all day.
She fell off and had to miss a few hours to see a doctor for her arm, but returned after a few hours.
She set a self imposed deadline of a month to finish, even though the church officials expected it to take a year.
They had to take breaks when an endowment session moved through the room.
With the help of some assistants, they finished the 120 figures and 4000 square feet in 23 working days.
She returned on some trips during the following year ot make touchups.
Back Wall: Tower of Babel
South Wall (Windows) – Biblical history in four parts
Abraham in Cannon
Joseph in Egypt
Moses, golden calf, and tablets
Pilgrims sailing
North Wall – Large Scene of the Gentiles
Easu
The Orient
Crusaders
Columbus
Shadowy figures
Front Wall – Both sides entering into the American Continent
“Indian Brave” with arms outstretched
Zion in the Nexus – grid of Manti City -
780 Sean Donnelly – LDS Church Growth in Africa
Sean Donnelly is an Area Relations Manager based in SLC. He supports the teams in all aspects of public relations, government relations and communication efforts. He chairs the Africa government relations sub-committee in the USA. He is the managing editor of Africa Newsroom.
Sean has lived and worked in 9 countries, and in prior life worked for a US listed company for 9 years in the UK office as a senior manager of large departments.
He also spent 20 years in management consulting in diverse industries across Europe and Africa, focused mainly on executive development and organizational effectiveness, marketing and strategy and was running his own company.
He served with his wife as mission leaders in Madagascar and interim mission leaders in the Congo. He is a fluent French speaker. He was a sought-after motivational speaker and later
author of a top-selling personal effectiveness book in South Africa. He combines years of corporate experience with a strong academic understanding, he has an MBA from Bond
University Australia. His outstanding competence is people leadership and organizational effectiveness in emerging market economies. He now has vast experience working in
international areas and at headquarters for the Church.
He joined The Church in 1983 and went on mission 11 months later to Switzerland, Geneva. He served as a Bishop at age 29, Stake Presidency, Mission President twice, Stake Audit
Chairman etc. He has travelled to most of the countries in Africa many times, he understands intimately the socio-economic and political context, and most important how to
work with the people and politics in Africa.
He is married to Dianne, and together they enjoy nature conservation, wildlife photography, outdoors and life.