[…] pursued the sacred and hope to pursue mercy and justice have themselves contributed—if unknowingly—to white supremacy” (p. 3). The use of the word “unknowingly” is a key that will clue the reader in to […]
[…] are enabled by white women. The LDS Church is a conservative, top-down leadership consisting entirely of men, over 90 percent white and less than 2.5 percent Black. The expectations are that Blacks subscribe to […]
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[…] priesthood. I was initiated. Your family was my first ordained tribe. Still, the anchor and chain slung over my back are your lessons, to me, about the meaning of Zion: memories of your collectivism. […]
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[…] my dad never has to go. When Grandma has the willies, if one of us girls goes over to her house Grandma calms down. The eleven-year-old me inwardly whines, “Why doesn’t Mama go herself?” […]
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[…] or why I was excommunicated in 1986, current Church policy is such that if I were a member, my bishop would have grounds for excommunicating me now, and I cannot currently be reinstated into membership.
[…] revealed. It’s been eleven years since I got that request from my stake president. Eleven years and over a million words of fiction written, rewritten, submitted—and but for ten thousand of them, all unpublished. […]