[…] United States. The first is antagonistic, based on a strong dualism, “with good located in the Mormon community and evil in the outside world.” The second is appreciation of other cultures and a spirit […]
[…] Reconciliation: Reflections on the Fortieth Anniversary of the LDS Church’s Lifting the Priesthood and Temple Restrictions for Black Mormons of African Descent” in the summer 2023 issue of Dialogue (56, no. 2). My biography […]
The brussels sprouts were good, the falafel was good, and the fries were better than good, but what Farmer and the Seahorse did spectacularly were its bathroom stalls. They were narrow and wood-walled with thick…
[…] for Me? (ca. 1880–1894),”in Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon, online ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199338665.003.0008. Quincy D. Newell, “Jane Elizabeth Manning […]
[…] about what my sexual identity is. Most of the time, I just identify as straight because I’m dating a trans guy, but I sometimes ask myself, am I pan? Or maybe bi?” While Sarah’s […]
[…] Mormon Doctrine? Were we supposed to simply discard it because it contains outdated doctrinal errors, especially about Black men and the priesthood, which continues to be such a politically controversial topic? And yet, if […]
[…] first things I look for in any work addressing any facet of white supremacy by a non- Black author is for the author to name their positionality. While it is true that white supremacy […]
[…] 4: International Turn Mark L. Grover, “Religious Accommodation in the Land of Racial Democracy: Mormon Priesthood and Black Brazilians,” Fall 1984. Mark L. Grover, “The Mormon Priesthood Revelation and the São Paulo, Brazil Temple,” […]
[…] said apologetically. “You run into girls like that once in a while.” For various reasons, Bode kept dating Iris. For one thing, a couple of his former steadies—girls he could count on for a […]
[…] a he, comfortable with this bit of patriarchy, despite what that probably said about me. A young black woman with a baby stroller walked over to the 48 sign as well. And a middle-aged […]