[…] activities such as dances, parties, and outings—boy- or girl-watching and innocent crushes are kindly joked about. Although dating early is discouraged, lessons and talks focus on future pairing. A young couple can hold hands […]
[…] those revelations. “Each church believes it has the correct map of the world,” Patterson observes (4). The Community of Christ owns the most land, including the site of its only temple. The Church of […]
[…] The official announcement of the temple, on August 16th, 1998, created a stir in the Dutch LDS community and generated the setting up of a national temple committee and an enlarged PR committee. Dutch […]
[…] I was a minority at the school. I couldn’t help but notice when I was the only black person in almost all of my classes—including those with more than 100 students. I would say […]
[…] hair in their youth and medium brown skin, but exposure to the elements often turns them as black as the Negroid peoples as they mature. The Fiji islanders have some characteristics which anthropologists have […]
My friend Junie and I were Utah Mormons. We knew no blacks till we were teenagers. The summer I was sixteen and she eighteen, the Peace Corps hired Dad to train volunteers. It was […]
[…] individually and institutionally because of it. This reminded me of meeting Darius Gray this summer at the Black, White, and Mormon conference at University of Utah. How when he told his story of mistreatment […]
[…] of encouragement), and following a few minor modifications, Talmage’s talk was printed in the November 1931 Deseret News, as well as in a separate church pamphlet at about the same time (the “pamphlet” was […]
[…] specification (the chapter numbers were added later, sometimes months later). The RLDS church (now known as the Community of Christ) has maintained these original chapters in their editions and has added versification. The LDS […]
[…] a feminist perspective have found themselves facing reprisals: Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery were “ blacklisted” and prevented from speaking at LDS church affiliated events after the publication of their biography Mormon […]