Early Mormon Prophet Led the Church Astray
The Mormon Church very recently posted a new statement on “Race and the Priesthood” at LDS.org in which the blame for the Church’s historic racism is laid squarely at the feet of Brigham Young....
View ArticleAre Racist LDS Scriptures Still Deemed “Utterly Reliable” and “Pure Truth”?...
In the recently released statement on lds.org on Race and the Priesthood, the modern Mormon Church disavows “that blacks or people of any other race or ethnicity are inferior in any way to anyone...
View ArticleAre Racist LDS Scriptures Still Deemed “Utterly Reliable” and “Pure Truth”?...
What do LDS Church leaders have to say about the reliability and accuracy of their own scriptures?According to LDS leaders, Mormon scriptures are “utterly reliable” and “pure truth.” The current...
View ArticleJoseph Smith Founder of LDS Racist Scriptures and Teachings: Part 1
[In honor of Black History Month 2014, each Monday in February Mormon Coffee's blog post will address a topic related to racism in Mormon history. Today guest blogger Lynn Wilder kicks off the...
View ArticleJoseph Smith Founder of LDS Racist Scriptures and Teachings: Part 2
[In honor of Black History Month 2014, each Monday in February Mormon Coffee's blog post will address a topic related to racism in Mormon history. Today guest blogger Lynn Wilder presents Part 2 of the...
View ArticleIf the Foundation is Rotten, All that Joseph Smith Built Tumbles
[In honor of Black History Month 2014, each Monday in February Mormon Coffee's blog post will address a topic related to racism in Mormon history. Today guest blogger Lynn Wilder presents Part 3, the...
View ArticlePassing the Torch of Mormonism’s Historical Racisim
[In honor of Black History Month 2014, each Monday in February Mormon Coffee's blog post has addressed a topic related to racism in Mormon history. Today is the final post in the...
View ArticleHow “official” is the Mormon First Presidency?
In 1973, five years before the Mormon Church lifted its ban on Blacks holding the LDS priesthood and participating in Mormon temple ordinances, Wendell J. Ashton, the Mormon Church’s director of Public...
View ArticleMormon Church Essay on Priesthood Ban Banned From Church Classroom
An interesting thing happened to Mormon Sunday school teacher Brian Dawson. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that a student in Mr. Dawson’s youth Sunday school class asked him why his Nigerian wife joined...
View ArticleMormonism hurts.
The topic of the Mormon Church and race has been in the news again this summer. The June anniversary of the Church’s 1978 lifting of the priesthood ban passed mostly unnoticed, but a week and a half...
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