<i>Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 29–44</i><br>Smith considers “why would any self–aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”
[…] a week the teenage girl from across the hall, always heavily made up and in a low -cut v–neck t–shirt, knocked at our door. To practice her English, she’d tell us coyly, snapping a […]
[…] likely an earthly term, derived from the word priest, which came into existence at some point in human history to describe those called to represent God. If we accept the biblical account, this office […]
In April 1992, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that “three hours before . . . the Relief Society’s sesquicentennial was to open at the LDS Museum of Church History and Art, three quotes were […]
[…] service, performing moral duties out of love for God and his laws, or out of recognition of human fundamental rights, and it was often used in that way in political discourse. Given Joseph Smith’s […]
[…] was a demon. The bishop knew it immediately. The demon’s color was unearthly and its demeanor, while human, was distorted and cruel. The wicked spirit’s fingers were long and the apparition had a wretched […]
[…] of the other person was beside the point. Understanding and rapport were not the goals of the human encounter. Conversion was. This description is surely a caricature of many dedicated Mormons, but it does, […]