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Blacks Receive LDS Priesthood Pressure Forces Mormon President to Issue New “Revelation”
Salt Lake City Messenger MODERN MICROFILM COMPANY Issue No. 39 PO BOX 1884, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84110 July 1978 Blacks Receive LDS Priesthood Pressure Forces Mormon President to Issue New “Revelation” Bruce R. McConkie, who now serves as an Apostle in the Mormon Church, made these remarks concerning blacks in his book Mormon Doctrine: Negroes in this life are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty. (Abra. 1:20-27.) The gospel message of salvation is not carried President Spencer W. Kimball affirmatively to them . negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow therefrom, but this inequality is not of man’s origin. It is the Lord’s doing, is based on his eternal laws of justice, and grows out of the lack of Spiritual valiance of those concerned in their first estate. (Mormon Doctrine, 1966, pages 527-528) However, in a broad general sense, caste systems have their root and origin in the gospel itself, and when they operate according to the absolutely nothing to do with Abraham or his religion. Since the Book of divine decree, the resultant restrictions and segregation are right and Abraham was the real source of the Church’s teaching that blacks could proper and have the approval of the Lord. To illustrate: Cain, Ham, and not hold the priesthood, we called upon the Mormon leaders to “repudiate the whole negro race have been cursed with a black skin, the mark the Book of Abraham and renounce the anti-Negro doctrine contained in its of Cain, so they can be identified as a caste apart, a people with whom the other descendants of Adam should not intermarry. -
Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood
BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 47 Issue 2 Article 1 4-1-2008 Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood Edward L. Kimball Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Recommended Citation Kimball, Edward L. (2008) "Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 47 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol47/iss2/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Kimball: Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood President Spencer W. Kimball spent many hours alone, pondering and praying, as he sought revelation on the priesthood question. Courtesy Church History Library. © Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008 1 BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 47, Iss. 2 [2008], Art. 1 Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood Edward L. Kimball o doubt the most dramatic moment of the Spencer W. Kimball N administration and probably the highlight of Church history in the twentieth century occurred in June 1978, when the First Presidency announced a revelation allowing worthy men of all races to be ordained to the priesthood and allowing worthy men and women access to all temple ordinances. The history of this issue reaches back to the early years of the Church. Without understanding the background, one cannot appreciate the magnitude of the 1978 revelation. When the Church was very young a few black men were ordained to the priesthood. -
120 Salt Lake City Messenger, What's Hidden in the New Headings?
salt lake city messenger May 2013 Editor: Sandra Tanner Issue 120 Utah Lighthouse Ministry 1358 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 www.utlm.org What’s Hidden in the New Headings? Changes in the LDS Scriptures t the end of February, 2013, the Deseret News “the Book of Abraham”—a Mormon text that Smith featured an amazing article: “LDS Church said was based on Egyptian papyri he obtained—and AAnnounces New Scripture Edition.”1 Utah polygamy, which the church abandoned in 1890.2 was buzzing with people trying to determine what had Some of the alterations to the been changed and why. The article introductory material in the 2013 noted that the changes included edition of LDS scriptures seem to “revisions to study aids, new photos, be aimed at lessening the tension on updated maps,” “making historical these problem areas. and contextual adjustments to the In the following material we will section headings of 76 sections of examine some of the major changes the Doctrine and Covenants,” and in the 2013 edition of LDS scriptures “adding introductory headings to both and discuss their significance. official declarations at the end of the Doctrine and Covenants.” Book of Abraham According to the same article the LDS Church began working on this In 1835 Joseph Smith arranged project in 2004. Currently the new for the LDS Church to purchase edition is only available on the LDS a collection of ancient Egyptian web site, and the print version will be papyri for $2,400 (equivalent to available in August 2013. about $65,000 in 2012). -
Lorenzo Snow's Couplet
JETS 49/3 (September 2006) 549–68 LORENZO SNOW’S COUPLET: “AS MAN NOW IS, GOD ONCE WAS; AS GOD NOW IS, MAN MAY BE”: “NO FUNCTIONING PLACE IN PRESENT-DAY MORMON DOCTRINE?” A RESPONSE TO RICHARD MOUW ronald v. huggins* Man may become as God himself! Let those who disagree howl as they may! Robert L. Millet and Joseph Fielding McConkie1 i. richard mouw’s tabernacle apology During his appearance with Ravi Zacharias in the Mormon Tabernacle on November 14, 2004, Fuller Seminary President Richard Mouw apologized on behalf of evangelicals for “bearing false witness” against Mormons. When challenged about his remarks, Mouw sent out an e-mail identifying places where he felt evangelicals had misrepresented Mormon teaching. Among these was the claim that “Mormonism teaches that God was once a human being like us, and we can become gods just like God is now,”2 a belief, Mouw goes on to assure us, that has “no functioning place in present-day Mormon doctrine.” As anyone familiar with Mormonism will immediately recognize, Mouw’s words allude to the famous couplet coined by the fifth LDS Church President Lorenzo Snow: As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be.3 Is Mouw correct in saying that the teaching contained in this couplet no longer has any functioning place in present-day Mormonism? In trying to answer this question, we must begin by looking at where Snow’s couplet came from and why it caught on as an important summary of the Mormon doctrinal system. * Ronald Huggins is associate professor of historical and theological studies at Salt Lake Theo- logical Seminary, P.O. -
LDS Ethnic Groups Oral History Project
Speaking for Themselves: LDS Ethnic Groups Oral History Project Jessie L. Embry Spanish translations by Kevin Krogh IN 1985 THE Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University had just completed almost ten years of looking at the experiences of Mormon families —polygamous and monogamous — around the turn of the century. I was in the process of writing Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle, and I was looking for a new oral history topic. Nothing really caught my interest until my friend Alan Cherry, an African-American who joined the Church in 1969, reminded me that because of scanty records, Church members know very little about the diverse experiences of Mormon Afro-Americans. I began some preliminary research and found that he was right; while several articles have been written about Jane Manning James, a black who lived in Nauvoo and then followed Brigham Young west, all of them were based on James's short autobiography. Cherry pointed out then unless something was done to preserve the history of current black American Mormons, their stories would be lost. Everyone would think that Alan Cherry, Mary Frances Sturlaugson, Joseph Freeman, and Romona Gibbons, blacks who have written books about their experiences in the Church, were typical LDS Afro-Americans. They are not. Out of that conversation with Alan Cherry, the LDS Afro-American Oral History Project was born. At first financial limitations restricted the project to Utah. But grants from the BYU College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences along with donations from the Silver Foun- dation and from individual Church members allowed the project to expand throughout the United States. -
Full Journal
Involving Readers in the Latter-day Saint Academic Experience STUDIES BYUVol. 47 • No. 2 • 2008 ARTICLES Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood 4 Edward L. Kimball The Nature of the Pen and Pencil Markings in the New Testament of Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible 87 Paul W. Lambert and Thomas A. Wayment “A Picturesque and Dramatic History”: George Reynolds’s Story of the Book of Mormon 115 Noel A. Carmack ESSAYS Thirty Years after the “Long-Promised Day”: Reflections and Expectations 79 Marcus H. Martins We Who Owe Everything to a Name 107 Lynda Mackey Wilson POETRY Tunica Doloris 56 Christopher Lund Fifth-Floor Walkup 94 Randy Astle REVIEWS The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong Reviewed by Eric D. Huntsman 142 Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism by Howard Schwartz Reviewed by Roger G. Baker 148 From Persecutor to Apostle: A Biography of Paul by Thomas A. Wayment Reviewed by Kathryn H. Shirts 152 Wounds Not Healed by Time by Solomon Schimmel Reviewed by Ronald E. Bartholomew 156 History May Be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion by Sherman L. Fleek Reviewed by Stephen B. Sorensen 161 The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark A. Noll Reviewed by Mary Stovall Richards 166 Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris by Melissa Lambert Milewski Reviewed by Cherry B. Silver 170 The J. Golden Kimball Stories by Eric A. Eliason Reviewed by Elliott Oring 175 Hooligan, a Mormon Boyhood by Douglas Thayer Reviewed by Richard H. -
Appendix I: a Letter on John Reed's 'The Colorado War'
Appendix I: A Letter on John Reed's 'The Colorado War' Boulder, Colorado. December 5 1915 My dear Mr Sinclair:- I have your letter of Ist inst. I do not think the reporter always got me quite right, or as fully as he might have got me. I did, however, think at the time I testified that Reed's paper in The Metropolitan contained some exaggerations. I did not intend to say that he intentionally told any untruths, and doubtless he had investigated carefully and could produce witnesses to substantiate what he said. Some things are matters of opinion. Some others are almost incapable ofproof. The greater part of Reed's paper is true. But for example, p. 14 1st column July (1914) Metropolitan: 'And orders were that the Ludlow colony must be wiped out. It stood in the way ofMr. Rockefeller's profits.' I believe that a few brutes like Linderfelt probably did intend to wipe this colony out, but that orders were given to this effect by any responsible person either civil or military - is incapable of proof. So the statement that 'only seventeen of them [strikers] had guns', I believe from what Mrs Hollearn [post-mistress] tells me is not quite correct. On p. 16 Reed says the strikers 'eagerly turned over their guns to be delivered to the militia' - Now it is pretty clear from what happened later that many guns were retained: on Dec. 31 st I was at Ludlow when some 50 or so rifles - some new, some old - were found under the tents and there were more - not found. -
Life and Times of William Jordan FLAKE 1839-1932
1 Life and Times of William Jordan FLAKE 1839-1932 Ron Freeman, 2011 291 N. 2620 W. Hurricane, UT 84737 435-635-8011 [email protected] 2 Introduction For my 34th birthday, 15 Jan 1973, as a gift my father presented me with Osmer Flake's biography of William Jordan Flake.1 In his dedicatory to me, my father wrote: My dear son Ron: It's a pleasure to present you this record of a very small portion of your grandfather [error: great-grandfather] Flake's life and accomplishments. I was privileged to know him and the writer of this book.2 . how fortunate we would be if even such a sketchy record were available more frequently. As portrayed, he played a major role in the colonization of Utah and Arizona. May it afford you an even greater appreciation of your progenitors. xxx Your Father & Mother I was grateful for the present my father gave me on that occasion. As a young boy, I made the trek with my family to Snowflake from northern Utah annually, and I enjoyed staying in the old Freeman home and spending time with the Turley cousins. Since those days, I have read Osmer's biography of his father, and other historical accounts such as Lucy H. White Flake's journal, Roberta Flake's book on her mother, Joel Flake's autobiography, Al Levine's books on Snowflake, etc. Much of what we of the 4th, 5th, 6th generations know of William J. Flake has been gleaned from the book written by Osmer and the other by his sister, Roberta. -
118 PDF Version
salt lake city messenger April 2012 Issue 118 Editor: Sandra Tanner Utah Lighthouse Ministry 1358 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 www.utlm.org Blacks Cursed: Doctrine or Folklore? BYU Professor’s Racial Comments Stir National Controversy n June of 1978 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- the Book of Abraham [Pearl of Great Price, Abraham day Saints (also known as Mormons or LDS) 1:21-27] as suggesting that all of the descendants of announced the end of its priesthood restriction for Ham and Egyptus were thus black and barred from I the priesthood. 2 blacks, a practice that had been rigorously defended since the days of Brigham Young, Professor Bott defended the the second president of the LDS ban on the basis that blacks were Church. Even though a few blacks not mature enough at that time for had been ordained to the priesthood the responsibility: during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Bott compares blacks with a Church, this did not grant them young child prematurely asking for the access to the secret LDS temple keys to her father’s car, and explains rituals, thus barring them from the that similarly until 1978, the Lord determined that blacks were not yet Mormon goal of eternal marriage ready for the priesthood. and advancement to godhood.1 While it has been thirty-four years At another place in the article since the ban was lifted, the issue we read: is still coming back to haunt the LDS Church. This February, while “What is discrimination?” Bott writing a story on presidential asks. -
Mormons and Lineage: the Complicated History of Blacks and Patriarchal Blessings, 1830–2018
MORMONS AND LINEAGE: THE COMPLICATED HISTORY OF BLACKS AND PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS, 1830–2018 Matthew L. Harris Declaring the lineage of Black Latter-day Saints is a challenging problem for patriarchs in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mor- mons, like many Protestant Christians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, asserted that Black people were a cursed race. Mormons and Protestants believed that God placed a curse of dark sin on Black people as descendants of Cain, the biblical counterfigure who murdered his brother Abel, to distinguish them from God’s covenant people. The curse, carried on through the lineage of Noah’s son Ham, relegated Blacks to a lifetime of servitude and bondage to white people. The divine curse provided a rationale for early Americans to enslave millions of Africans and to impose harsh penalties on Blacks and whites who transgressed strict laws forbidding interracial intimacy, love, and sex.1 For Mormons, The author wishes to thank Darron T. Smith, Newell G. Bringhurst, H. Michael Marquardt, Stirling Adams, Gary Bergera, Boyd Jay Petersen, and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on this article. 1. Stephen R. Haynes, Noah’s Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002); Molly Oshatz, Slavery and Sin: The Fight against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Colin Kidd, The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge -
Three Will Be Ordained on June 1 DENVER Cathaic
TWO PRIESTS BETIIRNJKG FROM ROME FOR RSSIGNMENT W ork to Begin Three Will Be Ordained on June 1 On New Church Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Archdiocese of D enver Goins Content! Copyright by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1967—Permiesion to Reproduce, Except on Articles Otherwise Msrhed, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue In Grand Lake Four N ew Clergy This Spring $60,000 Plant D esigned DENVER CATHaiC To Help Alleviate S h o r t a g e To Accom m odate 260 The contract has been awarded for a new $60,000 Arehbisbop Urban J. Vehr will add three youu? men to the ranks church in St. Anne’s Parish. Grand Lake, the Rev. The of the Denver Arelidioccsan priests this Saturday, June 1, at 9:30 a.m. odore A. Haas, pastor o f Kremmling-Grand Lake, an nounced. Work will-begin within a week, and it is hoped when he ordains the Rev. Deacons Joseph J. Lievens, Emmanuel Gabel, the building will be completed by the summer of 1958. and John F. Slattery. The Very Rev. William J. Keimeally, C.M., rector VOL. U l. REGISTERNo. 42. THURSDAr, MAY 30, 1957 DENVER, COLORADO of St. Thomas’ Seminary, will be assistant priest for th^ Mass of Ordi The Leonard R. Bonsall Construction Company of Boulder wm awarded the con- nation, which will take place in the Cathedral. tract, with an actual low bid of S68,426. One Denver con Encouraging In the same rite, Archbishop Vehr will ordain to the priest ian Robert W iest Seminarians tractor and two Grand Lake T r e n d S e e n firms also submitted bids. -
Understanding Mormonism
UNDERSTANDING MORMONISM A search for truth The dominant narrative is not true; it can't be sustained. The Church has to absorb all this new information or it will be on very shaky grounds (and that's what it is trying to do) and it will be a strain for a lot of people. Richard Bushman, Faithful Mormon Historian and author of Rough Stone Rolling Dec 2019 – V14 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Mysticism and Artifacts of the early church ............................................................................................................................... 4 Doctrine ...........................................................................................................................................................................................20 Mormon History.............................................................................................................................................................................93 Sacred Texts ................................................................................................................................................................................. 102 Organization................................................................................................................................................................................