Forty-six years ago this month, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, under then-President Spencer W. Kimball, lifted its prohibition preventing Black men from entering the all-male ...
In this month's LDS youth magazine, one article tries to include young women in the exercise of priesthood, while the very next article excludes them. Guest blogger EmJen says we need better ways to ...
For more than 30 years (based on a revelation to then-Mormon leader Spencer Kimball) blacks have been admitted to the Mormon priesthood (a lay order open to young men and adults). At least one verse, ...
Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a black Mormon pioneer, was known to some Latter-day Saints historians in the latter part of the 20th century but was hardly a household name. Linda King Newell and ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a new president, former Utah Supreme Court justice Dallin H. Oaks. Oaks, ...
Russell M. Nelson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at 101. The Mormon Church is not expected to formally choose a successor until after the funeral.
If you happened to watch any of the news coverage last week of Mormon women trying to crash the all-male Priesthood Meeting at the Conference Center, you may have caught a glimpse of an elderly ...
Before he announced last month that he would run as a Republican candidate in Michigan’s 1962 gubernatorial race. George Romney fasted and prayed for 24 hours for divine guidance. His act of faith ...