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Volume 51, No. 3

Fall 2018

The Fall issue commemorates the lifting of the priesthood ban and in true Dialogue style, scholars discuss and dissect it’s implications. Lester Bush starts the issues by “Looking Back, Looking Forward” while Joanna Brooks examines “Possessive Investment in Rightness.” Robert Greenwell looks at “One Devout Mormon Family’s Struggle With Racism.” Matthew Harris includes a groundbreaking study on “Mormons and Lineage: The Complicated History of Blacks and Patriarchal Blessings, 1830-2018.” And Dialoguing around the Roundtable is the voices of Alice Faulkner Burch, Janan Graham-Russell, Gail Turley Houston, Melodie Jackson and Cameron McCoy. And Darron Smith discusses “Negotiating Black Self-Hate Within the LDS Church.” And so much more!

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  • race, priesthood, temple, ban

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Articles/Essays

Looking Back, Looking Forward: “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine” 45 Years Later



2018: Lester Bush, “Looking Back, Looking Forward: “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine” 45 Years Later” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):1–28. It has been forty-five years since Dialogue published Bush’s essay entitled “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview”2 and forty years since Official Declaration 2 ended the priesthood/temple ban. It...

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Negotiating Black Self-Hate within the LDS Church



2018: Darron T. Smith, “Negotiating Black Self-Hate within the LDS Church” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):29–44. Smith considers “why would any self-aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”

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Martin Luther King Jr. and Mormonism: Dialogue, Race, and Pluralism



2018: Roy Whitaker, “MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND MORMONISM: DIALOGUE, RACE, AND PLURALISM” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):131–153. This essay provides an outline for how to have a more robust intrafaith dialogue about race among members of the LDS church. Using principles from Martin Luther King, Jr. about...

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One Devout Mormon Family’s Struggle with Racism



2018: Robert Greenwell, “One Devout Mormon Family’s Struggle with Racism” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):155–180. This article tells the impact of LDS racial teachings on a single family history, the Marshalls, from Alabama in the 19th c. to Filmore, Utah in the present.

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Interview

Interview: Father-Daughter Interview on Blacks and the Priesthood



2018: Egide Nzojibwami & Verlyne Christensen: Interviewed by Gregory A. Prince, “Interview: Father-Daughter Interview on Blacks and the Priesthood” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):213–136. A beautiful interview wherein Christensen said “If we look at an organization being a circle, there are a lot of people who are...

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Poetry

Reviews

Roundtable

Roundtable: The Preacher, the Labor Leader, the Homosexual, and the Jew: The Template for Achieving Great Goals



2018: Alice Faulkner Burch, “Roundtable: The Preacher, the Labor Leader, the Homosexual, and the Jew: The Template for Achieving Great Goals” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):181–185. Burch explains “Individually we can be strong and accomplish wonderful things. Together, united, we can be unstoppable and accomplish great things...

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Roundtable: When Did You Become Black?



2018: Gail Turley Houston, “Roundtable: When Did You Become Black?” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):193–200. After taking a genelogy DNA test, Houston finds some African ancestory. “Where to begin in answering all those questions? But at the most basic level, I simply liked that I was from...

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Roundtable: The Black Cain in White Garments



2018: Melodie Jackson, “Roundtable: The Black Cain in White Garments” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):209–211. Jackson explains “The Church refused to grant the Black body whole recognition and divinity. To Nephi, I was not fair and delightsome. To Joseph, I was a violator of the most sacred...

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Sermon

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