[…] in racist Latter-day Saint congregations. As a young man, I harbored deep racist sentiments and attitudes toward Black people (as well as other racial minorities). I thought of that childhood recently when a friend […]
[…] met. He was the head of admissions at Harvard. He actually hired David Evans, who was the Black brother from Arkansas with a degree from Princeton, Tennessee State. They together fundamentally transformed the multicultural […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] having its own web address, this publishing company is part of Card’s well-known and much visited on-line community, “Nauvoo.” There, in a model of how the electronic environment can really service literary interests, one […]
[…] were not necessarily connected to the gathering in preparation for the millennial reign of Christ. For example, black Africans were widely understood as descendants of both Ham and Cain, and Asians of various kinds […]
[…] to the apostleship, and that son to preside without the action of the church, his ordination ante dating that of the man chosen and acted upon by the church? The speaker said, to his […]
[…] law of thermodynamics) is to consider snowflakes. Bentley and Humphrey’s book Snow Crystals includes over 2000 high-resolution black-and-white photos of real snowflakes, many with intricate yet highly regular patterns. What are the chances that […]
Eldridge Cleaver, one-time Black Panther, author of the critically acclaimed best-selling memoir Soul on Ice, and notorious fugitive from justice, was the most famous African American to join the Church of Jesus Christ of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]