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May 18, 2024 · In this episode, Terryl Givens and Paul Reeve explore the history of the Church’s priesthood-temple ban that concluded in 1978. Paul is the Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies at the University of Utah.
May 16, 2024 · As we approach next month’s 46th anniversary of the 1978 end of the priesthood/temple ban against Black members, let’s look at how Latter-day Saints view that now-discarded policy. Do they,...
2 days ago · The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), colloquially known as the Mormon Church, is a restorationist Christian denomination that emerged in the United States during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. From its humble origins with just six original members in 1830, the LDS Church has grown to become a global ...
May 16, 2024 · As we approach next month’s 46th anniversary of the 1978 end of the priesthood/temple ban against Black members, let’s look at how Latter-day Saints view that now-discarded policy. Do they, for instance, see that nearly 130-year-long prohibition as rooted in revelation or racism?
6 days ago · Priesthood keys authorize men on earth to act and speak in the name of God.”. This month — May 15 — marks the 195th anniversary of the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood. Later that year, the Melchizedek Priesthood was also restored. These keys gave Joseph Smith authority to organize the Church in 1830. “One of the things I have ...
4 days ago · “The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ levelled to every understanding and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticisms of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from its indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to ...
For a period of time (~ when the Saints got to Utah to 1978), men of African American descent were not allowed to be ordained to the priesthood. This was dramatically ended in 1978 via revelation from God that is canonized as scripture in D&C. More info: Race and the Priesthood (churchofjesuschrist.org)
