Author: Lynn K. Wilder
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If the Foundation is Rotten, All that Joseph Smith Built Tumbles
[In honor of Black History Month 2014, each Monday in February Mormon Coffee’s blog post will address a topic related to racism in Mormon history. Today guest blogger Lynn Wilder presents Part 3, the final installment of the series she began on February 3rd.] The Bible invites people to “reason together,” (Isaiah 1:18) to “test…
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Joseph Smith Founder of LDS Racist Scriptures and Teachings: Part 2
[In honor of Black History Month 2014, each Monday in February Mormon Coffee’s blog post will address a topic related to racism in Mormon history. Today guest blogger Lynn Wilder presents Part 2 of the series she began last week.] LDS author Stephen Taggart (Negro Policy: Social and Historical Origins, 1970) writes that it was…
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Joseph Smith Founder of LDS Racist Scriptures and Teachings: Part 1
[In honor of Black History Month 2014, each Monday in February Mormon Coffee’s blog post will address a topic related to racism in Mormon history. Today guest blogger Lynn Wilder kicks off the series.] In January of 1964, LDS apostle Delbert L. Stapley wrote to LDS Michigan Governor George Romney urging him not to support…
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Are Racist LDS Scriptures Still Deemed “Utterly Reliable” and “Pure Truth”?
In the recently released statement on lds.org on Race and the Priesthood, the modern Mormon Church disavows “that blacks or people of any other race or ethnicity are inferior in any way to anyone else…” This unequivocal truth, that no race or ethnicity is superior to another, is something that Spain (1542), Quakers (1600s), Pennsylvania…