[…] Saint and a leading contender for national office, became the target of intense criticism in the national news media. Of equal concern were naysayers within the Church, who offered pointed criticisms of Mormon racial […]
[…] is changing and it is changing in a major way. On 9 December 1987 an official Church news release described the belief in the superiority of one race or color over another as “abhorrent […]
For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither…
[…] when all I did was marry a man, one man, not multiples, and without shedding blood or breaking the Sabbath or any of the many things men in the scriptures did when the Lord […]
[…] settling distillations of treesong He saw under the surface of things the other world that was always breaking through into this one The glistening ways the colors of God shone through in the voices […]
[…] book to make this jump, it’s the only one I could find published by Eerdmans. A brief search of their catalog reveals only one other Mormon-authored book, Craig Harline’s 2021 mission memoir Way Below […]
I am not Black, but my ancestors are. Had I been of age before 1978, I would not have received the priesthood. I think about this as I consider the history of racism in Brazil.…
“So how does the priesthood ban make you feel?” At the time I didn’t have the right tools to answer my freshman year religious studies professor at Brigham Young University, so I muttered something about…
In giving my remarks a title, I have quite promiscuously mixed two statements from the New Testament that come from different speakers, at different times, addressing different audiences for different reasons. I even supplied my…
[…] Smith (then President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) had published an article in the Church News about this matter and in the process had essentially contradicted one of his assumptions in his […]