Even if it takes Black History Month to spur the conversation, we dive into racism in the Mormon church. We take a brief high-level overview of how non-white people have been treated throughout the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Even though the Priesthood ban was lifted in 1978, racism didn’t go anywhere. From overt examples of prophets advocating slavery, to covert and insidious racism pervading our everyday lives, if we don’t talk about it it’ll never stop being a problem. We wrap with talking about 12 Years a Slave and an initiative in New Orleans to curb homelessness in the wake of hurricane Katrina.
Links:
Racism in Mormon Scripture
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/racialstatements.htm
Book of Abraham 1:26-7
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/1?lang=eng
Green Flake
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/flake-green-1828-1903/
Five Time Mormons Changed Their Position on Slavery
https://gregkofford.com/blogs/news/five-times-mormons-changed-their-position-on-slavery
Slavery in Utah
https://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/slaveryinutah.html
Be One celebration
https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/be-one-celebration-optimism-overcoming-prejudice
Healing the Wounds of Racism by Darius Gray
https://www.lds.org/blog/healing-the-wounds-of-racism?lang=eng
MormonNewsRoom fake racism apology
https://www.apnews.com/8453dce99ccf46c2a938a4e65c5addc5
Light of Gazalem
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02/19/new-orleans-reducing-homeless-hurricane-katrina
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Braden did a thing! We start with an interview he had with Milo and Angela about their creative muse: healing after Mormonism. It’s alright to be you, everybody! After that we talk about An Honest Liar, a documentary about The Amazing James Randi, and we wrap up with a story about science winning in a world besieged by “alternative facts”.
Light of Gazalem:
Interview show notes:
Song: https://soundcloud.com/angela-soffe/alright-to-be-you/s-laqLD
Angela Soffe: https://angelasoffe.com/about
Miles Germer (Milocraft): http://milocraft.net/music/bio
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/angelasoffemilocraft
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REVELATION! Braden and I go through the history of Mormon Temple ceremonies. Remember folks, religion has ceremonies, cults have rituals… there’s totally a difference. We use history to provide context for the ceremony changes of 2019 and the move toward equality between sexes in the passion narrative. “Between” sexes, not “among”. After that, Braden tells us about Kumare and how private citizens are making due during the Government shutdown.
Temple changes
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/abwknz/summary_of_temple_changes_we_know_so_far_morning/
Summary of changes
http://www.ldsendowment.org/timeline.html
SL Trib article
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/01/02/lds-church-releases/
MORMON newsroom release
https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/temple-worship
Alonzo Gaskill post
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsHKYi1gwaK/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=10360gliwoswi
NewNameNoah Temple Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VrsFEiTpsQ&t=1765s
Media of Great Price:
Kumare (documentary)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar%C3%A9
Light of Gazaelem:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/national-parks-shutdown-clean-up.html
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Join us for the epic conclusion to our discussion about disunity in Mormon leadership and censorship of General Conference addresses. We pick up with a long segment about Boyd K. Packer and censoring his various talks, including his address from 2010. Then Joe and I draw some conclusions based on everything discussed in our conversation as a whole.
Links mentioned in the show:
To the One
https://archive.org/details/ToTheOne/page/n1
To Young Men Only
https://archive.org/details/ToYoungMenOnly
Harold Lee talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/harold-b-lee_ye-deceived/
Benson BYU talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson_safety-face-danger/
Rector talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hartman-jr-rector_roots-branches/
Henry Eyring talk
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring_family/
Quinn telling about his conflicts with Packer
http://signaturebookslibrary.org/on-being-a-mormon-historian/
Review of Packer's talk in FARMS
https://publications.mi.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1426&index=11
Packer provokes academics in Sunstone
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/issues/066.pdf
Lost Sermons
https://eadview.lds.org/findingaid/CR%20100%20912/?componentid=427210
Further Reading:
http://signaturebookslibrary.org/essential-james-e-talmage/
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V26N01_23.pdf
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/046-38-39.pdf
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/045-44-57.pdf
https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/015-43-46.pdf
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