[…] Despite some serious challenges to the chronology of the official account, Mormons have firmly defended its histori city, even though several of the non-canonized versions do not suffer from these perceived historical inaccuracies. Neither […]
[…] of revealing our potential. We are like people who have never seen the Milky Way because the city lights tower above us. These lights make us think we know the way. They show us […]
[…] father, other than my mother?” “No, sir.” “Did you ever meet, in social gatherings anywhere in the city of Nauvoo at any time in company with my father, introduced by him or others as […]
[…] Minnie and asked her to mail it or take it from Gunnison to Emma in Salt Lake City. He added, “I hope you can see your way to do this in the spirit of […]
[…] room for independence. In 1953 Short Creek was still essentially a frontier community. Homes had no electri city or central heating, often no plumbing. The sheer physical labor required of women to care for […]
[…] in an assignment frustrated by their enemies. That revelation exempted the Church from building a temple in Missouri because they had done all they could; continued striving in the face of great opposition was […]
[…] What concerns me is that, despite early Saints being subjected to racially motivated and state-sanctioned violence in Missouri, I see today a disturbing number of Saints who are apathetic or hostile toward racial minorities […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 193–200
After taking a genelogy DNA test, Houston finds some African ancestory. “Where to begin in answering all those questions? But at the most basic level, I simply liked that I was from Africa. The percentage was small but the jolt large and wondrous. In the nineteenth century, the United States had the one-drop rule about race: if you had one drop of African blood you were considered to be Black.”
[…] police officer then employed by the Ferguson Police Department, shot Michael Brown, a Black eighteen-year-old from Ferguson, Missouri. When asked about the incident, Wilson stated that at one point, Michael Brown appeared to him […]
[…] Chester Hawkins, a black librarian from northern Virginia; Ronald Singer, a Navajo who lives in Salt Lake City; Annoulone Viphon sanareth, a Laotian immigrant to Washington, D.C., and a BYU student; Robert Lang and […]