Struggling with the History of Race and the Priesthood

The behind-the-scenes battles to lift Mormonism's racial priesthood ...

The ban, not rescinded until 1978, defined much of the 20th-century history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Because Harris ...

Everything You Thought You Knew about the Priesthood and ...

In Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality, Matthew Harris takes us on a journey to show how Black Americans and ...

4.2 Brigham Young articulates a racial priesthood restriction ...

Brigham Young gives his most forceful articulation of a racial priesthood restriction in relationship to the election bill, February 5, 1852.

Race and the Priesthood: Analysis of the New Mormon Statement

In 2013 the LDS Church published a new article on its website on "Race and the Priesthood," disavowing its past racist doctrines but ...

Blacks and the Priesthood - Paul Reeve, Pt 1 | By Saints Unscripted

That's the only articulation that Brigham Young Era gives for the racial restriction. People of black African ascend are cursed descendants of ...

Let's Talk about Race and Priesthood - The Book Barn

Paul Reeve offers vital historical context and insight on the origins of the restrictions, race relations both within and outside of the Church, the effects of ...

Toward a New History of Race and Mormonism | Semantic Scholar

Introduction: Beyond “Race and the Priesthood”— Toward a New History of Race and Mormonism · M. Mueller · Published in Journal of MORMON HISTORY 1 July 2015 ...

Latter-Day Saints Come To Terms With The 126-Year Racial Barrier

That's the word for “Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial ... The church ordinarily bestows the Aaronic Priesthood upon ...

The Real Story of the Priesthood-Temple Ban - YouTube

In this episode, Terryl Givens and Paul Reeve explore the history of the Church's priesthood-temple ban that ... Race and the Mormon ...

Late But Welcome: “Race and Priesthood” Essay - Sunstone Magazine

The essay's competent and realistic recognition of the origins of the traditional race policy in the fully human historical process leaves ...

Black people and Mormonism - Wikipedia

The temple and priesthood racial restrictions were lifted by church leaders in 1978. In 2013, the LDS Church disavowed its previous teachings on race for the ...

Whether the temple and priesthood restriction was mistaken

Some have suggested that despite all of this this, there appears to be historical precedent for excluding an entire race, group, or genealogical ...

Black Saints and the Priesthood (1895–1978) - Mormonr

It is true that Brother Abel was ordained a Seventy and sent to preach the gospel of repentance to his own race. but he was not authorized to confer upon them ...

Second-Class Saints - Matthew L. Harris - Oxford University Press

... Race And The Mormon Struggle For Whiteness ... "This painstakingly researched book tells the heart-rending history of Mormonism's race-based Priesthood and temple ...

Q&R! Tough Questions with Paul Reeve

W. Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness. Century of Black Mormons. W. Paul Reeve, Let's ...

Let's Talk About Race and Priesthood by W. Paul Reeve | Goodreads

Paul Reeve offers vital historical context and insight on the origins of the restrictions, race relations both within and outside of the Church, the effects of ...

Overview of Race in the Scriptures of Mormonism - LDS Discussions

One of the biggest myths of church history is that the priesthood ban was lifted through a revelation from God. From the church's essay on Race and the ...

EQ lesson on Race and Priesthood - Rational Faiths | Mormon Blog

I think actually with this race and the priesthood issue there is an interesting reversal of that. The essay goes through how in the broader ...

Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood - MormonThink

In many cases, statements were grounded in scripture. Taken together, critics maintain the historical record reveals a systematic, intentional, deeply ...

Mormons confront a history of Church racism - The Conversation

In 1852 Smith's immediate successor Brigham Young announced that black men could not hold the priesthood. In the following decades, both black ...