African Americans are joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called “the Mormon church”) in greater numbers. A recent article in the North County Times examines the increase of blacks in congregations in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and San Antonio. Excerpts follow: “I was approached by two younger African-American Mormon missionaries, and […]
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A recent MormonTimes.com article highlights Nobody Knows, the new documentary about the history of blacks in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: “It’s an interesting piece … in that it’s not a church-proselyting piece, it is not a church-bashing piece,” said Darius Aidan Gray, co-producer of the film. “We have attempted to be
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article on the 30th anniversary of the revelation on the priesthood. Excerpts follow: For more than a century, such scriptures were interpreted by Mormon leaders as a rationale to ban people of African descent from holding the priesthood. With each generation, the teaching became more ingrained. But by the
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