Mormon blogger David Knowlton voices his disagreement with LDS spokesman Mark...
Mormon blogger David Knowlton voices his disagreement with LDS spokesman Mark Tuttle over whether racial teachings were never put forth as doctrine
View ArticleHow would John Taylor vote in tomorrow’s election?
Last Friday, in honor of John Taylor’s 200th birthday, Mormon Coffee published several quotes from Mormonism’s 3rd prophet and president. Today, the day before an important and historic election in...
View ArticleMormonism’s First-Ever Black African General Authority
History was made at the April 2009 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During this conference, the LDS Church appointed its first black African as a General...
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George P. Lee dies
On Wednesday, July 28, former LDS Seventy George P. Lee, a Navajo, died at the age of 67 due to health problems. Lee was best known for being the first Native American LDS General Authority, being...
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Did the Mormon Church ever discriminate against black people?
Jason Horowitz of The Washington Post explored “The Genesis of a church’s stand on race” on Tuesday (2/28/12). Looking at the long-standing Mormon Church’s “ban on blacks in the priesthood,” which came...
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A Vision of Mormonism’s Premortality
Did you know that no women chose the side of Lucifer in Mormonism’s premortal War in Heaven? Of course, this is not official LDS Church doctrine, but according to a vision received by Mosiah Hancock in...
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Sobered by their demise — they went contrary to the teachings of the Prophet...
Delbert L. StapleyEarly in 1964 Mormon Apostle Delbert L. Stapley wrote a letter to his friend, Michigan Governor George W. Romney. Mr. Stapley wrote the letter due to concerns he had after hearing a...
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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....
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Are 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...
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Are 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...
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Joseph 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...
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Joseph 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...
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If 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...
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Passing 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...
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Mormon 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...
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Mormonism 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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