[…] split open the challenge single adults face in navigating their understanding of healthy and faithful practices in dating and sexuality for single adults. Dr. Finlayson-Fife shared numerous testimonials from single adults, and it was […]
In “LDS blacks, scholars cheer church’s essay on priesthood” at the Deseret News, Lester Bush’s famous Dialogue piece is referenced:
[…] or a Church consultant had intervened and pushed her to create real people rather than this stereotypical community. As Adichie warns, “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that […]
[…] concept requires that we go beyond the immediately provable action to the more subtle attitude. Tell a black man he’s free, but deny him access to certain jobs or residential areas – then read James […]
[…] come to believe that laissez faire means the same thing as “free agency,” an important L.D.S. concept dating from Jacksonian days, which emphasizes the eternally redemptive value of individual freedom of choice. They tell […]
[…] not expecting the Corporation of the President to be as progressive as Pope Francis, or even the Community of Christ. I’m not holding my breath for a frameable document called “The Kindred: A Proclamation […]
[…] the Disinherited. Among Thurman’s key insights is his concept of the inward sea, or soul. As a Black man growing up in the segregated American South, Thurman is no stranger to oppression and race-based […]
[…] below to see the special one year anniversary issue in Summer 1979): Fall 1984: Mormon Priesthood and Black Brazilians by Mark L. Grover Fall 1990: Separate but Equal? Black Branches, Genesis Groups, or Integrated […]
[…] the Goddess, Anne Baring and Jules Cashford emphasize the important correspondence between the goddess Sophia and the Black Madonna in late medieval tradition: “Black is the colour that is associated with Wisdom, as the […]
[…] of the content bordered on Illuminati/Heyerdahl-level speculation, especially the chapter on the Tunguska event titled “Did a Black Hole Hit Siberia?” complete with a nightmare-inducing illustration. But all sensationalism aside, these were my first […]