To Be Native American—And Mormon
August 13, 2021[…] in that school year of 1964 fall semester was a pre-announced talk by our bishop on interracial dating. It seemed to be an issue for him. A number of us showed up with non-Indian […]
[…] in that school year of 1964 fall semester was a pre-announced talk by our bishop on interracial dating. It seemed to be an issue for him. A number of us showed up with non-Indian […]
[…] and Mel met in 1969, when Mel was a University of Wyoming football player–one of fourteen removed from the team after wearing black arm bands to protest BYU and the LDS Church’s priesthood/temple restrictions.
[…] each day the prince thought of the distant world and he drank. He drank, and he retched black vomit, and he lost all the hair on his head, his face, his chest, his arms, […]
[…] in the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Division, email message to author, Oct. 4, 2017. George F. Black, Ethiopica & Amharica: A List of Works in the New York Public Library (New York: New […]
[…] both unnecessary and avoidable. As he puts it, “There is reason to believe that much individual and community suffering would have been avoided had the federal government allowed ‘the corrective force of advancing civilization’ […]
[…] come in the back door and get those. That very year Richard Wright published his moving autobiography, Black Boy, in which he describes how he sneaked books from the Memphis Library, pretending they were […]
[…] they walk in. She had spent many hours as a child taking in games on a small black-and-white television or via AM radio in the car or, sometimes, watching in person at Candle stick, […]
Helaman 1-6; August 23: Daniel Becerra Daniel Becerra is an assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University and a scholar of early Christianity. He holds secondary specialties in New Testament and in Greco-Roman philosophy. He…
[…] heard about them in their own home towns. 1970: Stanley Kimball, “A Footnote to the Problem of Dating the First Vision.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 5 No. 4 (1970): 121–122. Stanley […]
Dialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 99–107
Elder Oaks clarified that priesthood is the authority and power of God. By extension, that must also be the authority and power of our Heavenly Mother. I decided to give it a name. Not the Order of Aaron, that great Old Testament wingman to Moses, or the Order of Melchizedek, mentor and life coach to Abraham, but the Order of Eve, a matriarchal priesthood, in honor of the mother of all living.