[…] smile when she calls me hermana, her “sister.” Her reference to me signifies a dual meaning: I am not only like a family member to her, but additionally, the term hermana is used among […]
[…] fur. Normally the sun was a nuisance—casting shadows, flashing warning signals off of rings and belt buckles—but today Jack would have welcomed a little color. Red and gold flowers were scattered about, but there […]
[…] get through graduate school without such an awakening, especially when many of those writers seem so bland today that I wonder along with Sam Taylor “if most of them weren’t mainly victims of bad […]
[…] throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected Egyptiana since 1848 (the close of the Mormon era in Nauvoo) and to suggest how and where more of these antiquities might be found.
[…] officially denounce such anti-Black teachings in church-sponsored venues, specifically General Conference, the Ensign magazine, or the Church News.” It is worth noting that for such a profound change in Church policy there was scarcely […]
[…] A Documentary History (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005), 415. Ibid., 459. Danny L. Jorgensen, “The Old Fox: Alpheus Cutler, Priestly Keys to the Kingdom, and the Early Church of Jesus Christ” in Differing […]
[…] early recognized my tendency to question, to disagree, to refuse to take many of the Old Test ament stories at face value. I could not admire Jacob’s ethics in stealing his brother’s birthright; I […]
[…] size-medium” src=”https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Dark-Watch-200×300.jpg” alt=”dark-watch” width=”200″ height=”300″ /> Mormonism from Varied Fictional Perspectives William Morris. Dark Watch and Other Mormon-American Stories. A Motley Vision, 2015. 124 pp. E-book: $2.99. Reviewed by Jonathan Langford Short story collections are […]
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Given the inadequate tools to police racial boundaries, LDS Church leaders like Joseph Fielding Smith struggled to define precisely where Black and light-skinned Latter-day Saints fit into the Church’s conception of soteriology.
[…] Riess, “Forty Years On, Most US Mormons Still Believe the Racist Priesthood/Temple Ban Was God’s Will,” Religion News, June 11, 2018, https://religionnews.com/2018/06/11/40-years-later-most-mormons-still-believe-the-racist-priesthood-temple-ban-was-gods-will/. Howard A. Christy, “Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, […]