temple Archive

  • Ride to the Ecuador Guayaquil Temple

    Posted on November 3, 2013 | 2 Comments
    Today’s post comes to us from Synneve, a veteran Ride to Church submitter (see here and here): I spent two weeks this summer in Cuenca, Ecuador volunteering at orphanages with Orphanage Support Services Organization (OSSO), which is based in Rexburg, Idaho. This was my second […]

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  • Ride/Walk to the Tokyo Temple

    Posted on August 4, 2013 | 1 Comment
    Okay, so I’m a bit behind on this ride/walk to church that I’ve been meaning to do since we got back from Tokyo in March.   Nonetheless, here it is: On the second day we were in Tokyo, Marin and Stuart went to school with […]

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  • Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: Sacred Artifacts and Rituals

    Posted on August 17, 2012 | 4 Comments
    I'm a faithful skeptic, a doubting believer; this is why these spiritual experiences were so unexpected.

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  • Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: An Object Lesson

    Posted on August 14, 2012 | 11 Comments
    I have felt those same feelings in and around mosques, synagogues, and churches of many different Christian denominations. Let's add mountaintops and porch swings, too.

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  • Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: The New and Everlasting Covenant

    Posted on August 7, 2012 | 14 Comments
    The three of us met in a park one night and I basically gave them permission to date. It was weird, but at the same time, I felt like God was somehow preparing us to be the pioneers of polygamy IN the church at this period of time.

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  • Ride to the Sensoji Temple

    Posted on August 5, 2012 | 4 Comments
    Today’s Ride to “Church” (=Sensoji Temple) comes to us from Emily: In May of this year, I had the opportunity to take a group of five 8th grade students on a trip to our sister school in Kagoshima, Japan.   I couldn’t help but make […]

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  • Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: And Have Joy Therein

    Posted on July 27, 2012 | 22 Comments
    Even then I knew my dream of open, inclusive temple worship was idealistic, unlikely to be realized. For now, however, everything was right. Somehow the experience had turned out perfectly.

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  • Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

    Posted on May 9, 2011 | 6 Comments
    As we approached the wide junction of Avinguda  Diagonal and the street on which our hotel was located, I saw the spires of Sagrada Familia for the first time. The four spires that faced us towered among cranes, with words circling up to heaven in […]

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  • Ren’s (former) Ride to the Winter Quarters, Nebraska Temple

    Posted on April 24, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Today’s Ride to Church post comes from Ren (who now lives in Minnesota): I used to live in Omaha, Nebraska and this is my former ride to the Winter Quarters Temple. I took these photos on a recent visit back.   I like Omaha because […]

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