At a meeting this week with leadership from the NAACP, President Nelson said “We are impressed to call on […] the entire world to demonstrate greater civility, racial and ethnic harmony and mutual respect.”...
“The first step toward healing is the realization that the problem exists, even among some of us in the Church,” says Darius Gray, a founding member and former president of Genesis, a group established by...
In this episode of the Religious Feminism interview series, Max Perry Mueller, author of Race and the Making of the Mormon People and an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses the...
With the recent events in Charlottesville, a church member brought up the issue that racism is still present in the church. I remember being shocked when I learned as a teenager that blacks didn’t...
Guest post by Molly Hogan Years ago, I attended an after church choir practice. Our choir conductor, Cathy Stokes, was attempting to teach a small group of multigenerational white Mormons the proper way to...
The title of my post comes from a line in The Family: A Proclamation to the World. The full sentence reads, “Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness,...
In a Sacrament meeting talk about opposition and the war in heaven, I recently heard the features of Satan’s plan enumerated: he wanted to take away our agency, he wanted God’s glory for himself, there...
Last month, my family was in Nauvoo for a family reunion. One night we watched the Nauvoo pageant. As Joseph Smith is headed to Carthage, we are told that he goes there on “trumped up” and...
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