[…] how, against all expectation, the Lord in 1978 had revealed to the prophet Spencer W. Kimball that black males should no longer be denied ordination on account of their race. Now, I don’t believe […]
[…] it was in Sunday School, seminary, or Young Women, I had a lesson on chastity, modesty, or dating at least once a month. With all the lessons about modesty, dating, and pornography, it felt […]
[…] Greenwood Press, 2004), 9; Stephen C. Harper, “On the Eve of the First Vision,” in Susan Easton Black and Andrew C. Skinner, eds., Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet (Salt Lake […]
[…] Mormons to join with others in civil rights actions and to build bridges and respond positively to black aspirations will bring special kinds of misunderstanding and pain and will sometimes make the cross harder […]
[…] “commonsense” changes; (3) interpretive additions (often signaled by the phrase “or in other words”); (4) harmonizations; (5) di verse changes that resist categorization; and (6) grammatical improvements, technical clarifications, and modernization of terms. Where […]
[…] Darius Gray, speaking at the Mormon History Association annual meeting in 2003, said that “the number of black Saints in Africa now exceeds 154,000. He did not say how he had derived this figure. […]
I reflect upon a work of art by Marlena Wilding, a Black female artist with ties to Utah and Mormonism. Her artwork is a stark representation of the complex nature of living while Black […]
[…] voices of “the laity” (what Blythe refers to via Primiano as “vernacular religion”), discussions of race (the Black priesthood and temple ban, relations with American Indians, Hawaiian immigration, etc.), and the complicated gender power […]
[…] Century,” BYU Studies 38, no. 2 (1999): 7. Ibid. Ibid., 22–26. Robert T. Barrett and Susan Easton Black, “Setting a Standard in LDS Art: Four Illustrators of the Mid-Twentieth Century,” BYU Studies 44, no. […]
[…] accurately identified the circumstances in the Mexican colonies that led to this 1897 commission despite his erroneously dating it as having occurred in 1895 before his father went to the colonies. Joseph H. Dean, […]