[…] was an elderly woman in a previous ward I was in who, whenever the 1978 revelation about black members was mentioned in class, she would always comment about how happy she and her neighbors […]
[…] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902), 4:607 “Minutes of the Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Society,” Nauvoo Relief Society […]
[…] individuals. In late February 2020 it was announced that the long-standing ban on same-sex romantic behavior ( dating, kissing, hand-holding) was being eliminated.58 The campus reacted in a mostly positive manner with some LGBTQ […]
[…] George Reynolds, an LDS General Authority from the late nineteenth century, wrote for LDS periodicals, believed that black skin was a curse from God, and associated whiteness with godliness. He probably spoke for many […]
[…] or intellectual pride. I had prayed to know my responsibility in the Vietnam War, about priesthood for blacks, about the IWY conference and the Equal Rights Amendment. In each case, I received a clear […]
[…] this enduring image of the ceremony: We had invited a long list of government representatives, Communists who did not believe in God, who did not pray. . . . President Monson told them that […]
[…] Jr. had located “some very remarkable and valuable treasures,” and asked to use one of his “ black sheep” for a blood sacrifice. Stafford, who was not present at the dig, said nothing about […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] its first For the Strength of Youth pamphlet, which provided LDS youth with guidelines concerning dress, manners, dating, dancing, and clean living. Of-ficers of the MIA, representatives from BYU and the Church Edu-cational System, […]
[…] Mormon” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 52 No. 3 (2019):209–217. A sermon wrestling with the curse of blackness in the Book of Mormon. 2019: James C. Jones, “Racism,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol […]