[…] her personal belief in the scripture or the prophet himself. But this is not necessarily an all-or-nothing, black-or-white proposition. While the revelations came initially from God, they were changed to fit the situation by […]
[…] when relatively young (Figure 7). Half of LDS women have a child before their twenty-third birthday. While black religious groups tend to begin having children at a lower age than do Mormons, they are […]
[…] Christ of Latter-day Saints. Specifically, among the scholarly research that facilitated this study were Susan Ward Easton Black, Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848, vols. 1-50, (Provo, UT: Research Study […]
[…] unsteady against the force of the wind. She thought she could see the shape of one long black boot hesitating at the foot rest, another touching the ground, a tall man standing in the […]
[…] It springs from tales harbored in the common fund which may then effect a re-shaping of a community’s sense of itself. Joseph Smith had truly ushered in an age of miracles and wonder. Every […]
[…] three of the Pearl of Great Price, was white, and Joseph Smith himself ordained Elijah Abel, a black man, to the priesthood and sent him on missions. Nonetheless, a prevalent cultural belief at that […]
[…] all who stand in his path. Other riders appear to his right, mounted on red, white, and black horses. These riders appear to be assisting in the destruction, slaughtering their victims with a sword. […]
[…] . . and seems to be able to get almost anything he wants to out of these black guards.” A week later Rich reported that Florence and Bossard “do not seem to have the […]
[…] dressed all in white, but the brightness shone more from her ivory teeth, brilliant eyes, and radiantly black skin. The daughter, for her part, was present only out of respect, because of the undeniable […]
[…] love this family, one legacy my sons say they feel blessed to have. I’m the only “ black sheep,” in more than one offense. Since on my side of the family I was the […]