[…] University of Southern California Center for International Studies, 2000). Spanish Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Caritas di Roma (Rome, 1998), 4. Withol de Wenden, “Do We Have to?” Watts, “Passport to Unity.” European […]
[…] Wise; Director: Wetzel O. Whitaker; Assistant Director: Dave Jacobs, For example, the preacher’s reference to Satan having black skin was omitted in recent years; compare Witte and Fraser c1980, 23 with Sackett 1982, 38. […]
[…] Joseph Smith put this into religious practice by authorizing the ordination of Elijah Abel, the only “free Black” male at LDS headquarters, to the priesthood and office of elder in March 1836. The Prophet […]
[…] and the Morning. Most of the Mormon outrage in this novel is reserved for its heroine, Kate Black Alexander, modeled on Sorensen’s maternal grandmother Geraldine Alice Alexander Blackett, who was, like Kate in the […]
[…] corn and willows. David saw two fires flickering deep in the willows and trees, which were already black in the fading light. He hesitated; he knew it wasn’t the big hobo jungle he was […]
[…] of sister missionaries in the work of the Lord. But this did not happen. As I began dating, my sisterhating became more sophisticated and turned into a valuable tool. Missionary experiences were a common […]
[…] lineage of Cain “virtually prevented proselyting altogether until 1978” when through revelation Kimball lifted the ban on Black participation in the priesthood (p. 274). Ironically, the change in this case came about after “longsuffering […]
[…] until 113 years later that the LDS church changed its policy to acceptance of the ordination of black men. The fact that we made little polemical use of this difference until the civil rights […]
[…] War II ended. He was a clerk/typist in the provost marshal’s section. Their cities mostly destroyed, the black market the only viable economy, the Germans were starving and freezing and filled with cynicism and […]
[…] the most exciting and thought-provoking point in our week. The denial of LDS priesthood ordination to worthy black members was naturally among the issues that came up around our table. President Spencer W. Kimball’s […]