[…] an assignment from a priesthood leader is exercising priesthood authority) is also undermined by the status of black male members of the Church before 1978. Some of them served faithfully in their wards and […]
[…] Sometimes they have made unfavorable comparisons between RLDS policy and that of their cousins in Utah who denied holy orders to black men and women until last year when half of the restriction was lifted.
[…] encouraged miscegenation and resulted in a society with a small white minority and a majority that was black, mulatto, and mestizo. Important European and Asian migrations between 1884 and 1957 altered the racial picture […]
[…] wife who told us the news, weeping: “El prof eta ha recibido una revelation! Todos los hombres di gnos pueden recibir el sacerdocio—ni importa el color de piel. Todos! Incluso los negros!” The prophet had […]
[…] both accounts are describing the same revival, Mormon writers have already credited Cowdery with an error in dating, but have been quite willing to accept the other details given in this earlier account and […]
[…] first free Negro convert to the Church, as is suggested. At least one other, known variously as Black Pete and Black Tom, had joined in Kirtland within a year of the organization of the […]
[…] family farm, Joseph discovered another stone, which his wife Emma described as “a small stone, not exactly black, but was rather a dark color.” Another report described it as “almost black with light colored […]
[…] B.Y.U., for example, has no admission policies which preclude people from entering the University because they are black. The Church’s doctrine was often distorted in various ways. Outrageous misrepresentations were made by some. It […]
[…] has not seen since the renunciation of polygamy in 1890 or the extension of the priesthood to black male members in 1978. Senior Church leaders have called this “the most remarkable era in the […]
Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 105–143
Richard Sleegers contrasts 19th century Protestant teachings about salvations to what Joseph Smith taught about life after death.