Web links for celebrating Passover and interacting with Mormon friends

#1 · April 18, 2008, 12:16 pm

Quote from Forum Archives on April 18, 2008, 12:16 pm
Posted by: hopechestnews <hopechestnews@...>
Dear Hope Chest friends,

I have a few web links to share with you! As a reminder, you can also visit (and subscribe to) my blog at www.VirginiaKnowles.blogspot.com.

First, Passover starts tomorrow night, and The Old Schoolhouse Magazine just sent out a link for free instructions on celebrating a Passover Haggadah. http://www.its-time.info/books/haggadah/

Second, most of you know that I flew out to Utah in January for my grandmother's funeral. She was buried next to her second husband, Dr. Howard R. Driggs, who was born into a polygamous Mormon family there in 1873.  If you would like to reread what I wrote about Utah and my Driggs relatives, you can find it on-line at www.VirginiaKnowles.com/OverUtahInJanuary. Our step-relatives were very gracious in their hospitality to us, and we have had the opportunity to interact with some of them by e-mail since then. In the process, I have come across some interesting web links that might be helpful to evangelicals in relating to folks in the Latter-Day Saints (LDS) church. I can't vouch for the contents of all of them, but here they are:

Evangelical web sites reaching out to Mormons

For Mormon Faith and Research: www.4Mormon.org

Mormons in Transition (sponsored by the Institute for Religious Research) www.irr.org/mit/

Mormonism Research Ministry www.MRM.org

H.I.S. Ministries International www.hismin.com

Article on a neo-orthodox movement with the LDS church: www.probe.org/content/view/1059/65

Video on The Bible vs. the Book of Mormon http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/video/bible-vs-book-mormon

And, in light of the current news on the polygamous community in Texas, a video called Lifting the Veil of Polygamy (not for young children!)  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7940067916847716536

Finally, I just received an invitation in the mail from Southern Utah University for the May 2 naming ceremony of the Howard R. Driggs library room which houses his very extensive collection of Old West historical memorabilia and educational materials.   (I won't be able to go -- it's the same day Mary graduates from UCF and a week before her wedding!) You can see a register of the print collection on-line at http://archive.li.suu.edu:8080/archive/search?s=16748627&t=d and you can see actual historical photographs at http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/driggs.html. I don't know if or when the actual images of the print collection will be available for viewing on-line, but I will let you know if that happens. It is a veritable treasure trove, I assure you, with everything from text books to correspondence with presidents.   At home, I have a hardback copy his Live Language Lesssons English text book that I miraculously found in an antique store many years ago, as well as some of his historical books that have been passed down to me by my parents.   For your educational edification, here is a brief excerpt frm Live Language Lessons Book I that I included in my own book Common Sense Excellence:

Guidelines for Language Arts Teachers in 1913

Constructive and creative work is made the basis of the course.

All composition work is made real, is given motive, is socialized.

All grammar exercises are functioned, vitalized by practical application.

Language is made the center of the curriculum -- the expression side of all the subjects. It is closely correlated with them.

A constant effort is made to create in the pupil the spirit of authorship.

A definite working program is outlined for each pupil in the class.

Composition work, to be vital, must be individual.

A series of definite exercises is given to build up the working, the live vocabulary.

Formal exercises and corrective drills are closely blended with the constructive work.

Oral work is strongly emphasized; the path to the written work leads always through oral expression.

Blessings,

Virginia Knowles www.VirginiaKnowles.blogspot.com and www.VirginiaKnowles.com
-- To subscribe, send ANY message to: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: [email protected] Visit my web site at www.VirginiaKnowles.com  

Posted by: hopechestnews <hopechestnews@...>

Dear Hope Chest friends,

I have a few web links to share with you! As a reminder, you can also visit (and subscribe to) my blog at http://www.VirginiaKnowles.blogspot.com.

First, Passover starts tomorrow night, and The Old Schoolhouse Magazine just sent out a link for free instructions on celebrating a Passover Haggadah. http://www.its-time.info/books/haggadah/

Second, most of you know that I flew out to Utah in January for my grandmother's funeral. She was buried next to her second husband, Dr. Howard R. Driggs, who was born into a polygamous Mormon family there in 1873. If you would like to reread what I wrote about Utah and my Driggs relatives, you can find it on-line at http://www.VirginiaKnowles.com/OverUtahInJanuary. Our step-relatives were very gracious in their hospitality to us, and we have had the opportunity to interact with some of them by e-mail since then. In the process, I have come across some interesting web links that might be helpful to evangelicals in relating to folks in the Latter-Day Saints (LDS) church. I can't vouch for the contents of all of them, but here they are:

Evangelical web sites reaching out to Mormons

For Mormon Faith and Research: http://www.4Mormon.org

Mormons in Transition (sponsored by the Institute for Religious Research) http://www.irr.org/mit/

Mormonism Research Ministry http://www.MRM.org

H.I.S. Ministries International http://www.hismin.com

Article on a neo-orthodox movement with the LDS church: http://www.probe.org/content/view/1059/65

Video on The Bible vs. the Book of Mormon http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/video/bible-vs-book-mormon

And, in light of the current news on the polygamous community in Texas, a video called Lifting the Veil of Polygamy (not for young children!) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7940067916847716536

Finally, I just received an invitation in the mail from Southern Utah University for the May 2 naming ceremony of the Howard R. Driggs library room which houses his very extensive collection of Old West historical memorabilia and educational materials. (I won't be able to go -- it's the same day Mary graduates from UCF and a week before her wedding!) You can see a register of the print collection on-line at http://archive.li.suu.edu:8080/archive/search?s=16748627&t=d and you can see actual historical photographs at http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/driggs.html. I don't know if or when the actual images of the print collection will be available for viewing on-line, but I will let you know if that happens. It is a veritable treasure trove, I assure you, with everything from text books to correspondence with presidents. At home, I have a hardback copy his Live Language Lesssons English text book that I miraculously found in an antique store many years ago, as well as some of his historical books that have been passed down to me by my parents. For your educational edification, here is a brief excerpt frm Live Language Lessons Book I that I included in my own book Common Sense Excellence:

Guidelines for Language Arts Teachers in 1913

Constructive and creative work is made the basis of the course.

All composition work is made real, is given motive, is socialized.

All grammar exercises are functioned, vitalized by practical application.

Language is made the center of the curriculum -- the expression side of all the subjects. It is closely correlated with them.

A constant effort is made to create in the pupil the spirit of authorship.

A definite working program is outlined for each pupil in the class.

Composition work, to be vital, must be individual.

A series of definite exercises is given to build up the working, the live vocabulary.

Formal exercises and corrective drills are closely blended with the constructive work.

Oral work is strongly emphasized; the path to the written work leads always through oral expression.

Blessings,

Virginia Knowles http://www.VirginiaKnowles.blogspot.com and http://www.VirginiaKnowles.com

-- To subscribe, send ANY message to: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: [email protected] Visit my web site at www.VirginiaKnowles.com