[…] white understandings of Blackness in Mormon theology. A study by writer-researcher Jana Riess of the Religion News Service found that 70 percent of Black Latter-day Saints believe the Mormon racial folklore of themselves as […]
[…] (this last one on 28 July 1989). The following comes from “Jane Doe Kingston,” information submitted in writing on 25 Apr. 1989, and my interview with “George Mason” on 26 Jan. 1990. Hilton, “Plural […]
[…] Luther King Jr. gave a sermon in which he said, “The church also has the responsibility of getting to the ideational roots of racial prejudice. Racial prejudice is always derived from or based on […]
[…] Section 101 in the first printing of the Doctrine and Covenants, a collection of Joseph Smith’s revelatory writings and statements. Verse 4 states, “Inasmuch as this church of Christ has been reproached with the […]
[…] may serve as a chronicle of the issues dominating American life for twenty-five years (1930-1955), hundreds of reviews and articles on an astonishing range of topics, a monthly column for more than twenty years […]
Dialogue 35.3 (Fall 2003):9a–128
I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies […]
[…] care to explain more about that? I was excommunicated for heresy—and I was a heretic—and specifically for writing the book. My husband was teaching at Yale at the time and we were living in […]
[…] and Grooming Standards, but I have been unable to determine the date they were first prohibited in writing. Church leaders also appealed to a sense of attractiveness. For the Strength of Youth, 1965, 2, […]
For much of its history, the Relief Society has been primarily concerned with educating and providing compassionate service to its own members, carrying out instructions passed on from priesthood leaders, keeping its own organization […]
[…] successful. Of those who participated, 80 percent felt that the action was successful. After Pants, a letter- writing campaign called Let Women Pray sought to address the lack of women praying at General Conference, […]