1910: Mormon Priesthood and Temple Ban: From Policy to “Doctrine” Ep. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Join with us today as we discuss the priesthood and temple ban with historian Matt Harris. Joseph F. Smith and Joseph Fielding Smith, both Mormon leaders, could not find any doctrinal bases for the priesthood and temple ban and yet it still remained for decades. Members of the church performed blackface and wrote racist poems published in church periodicals. Many of the Mormon leaders did not agree with the ban and some were even removed from their callings because of their different opinions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Mormon stories |
| 0:04.0 | podcast I'm your host John Deli and it's June 4th |
| 0:07.3 | 2024 and we are now in part two of this brand new exciting series that we're launching on what I believe and many believe |
| 0:19.3 | is a groundbreaking book on Mormon history. The book is entitled Second Class Saints Black Mormons and the |
| 0:26.3 | struggle for racial equality by Dr Matthew Harris. We just recorded episode one yesterday and what we're doing is like the LDS |
| 0:35.9 | discussion series we're planning on a hopefully a 10 to 20 episode series where we're going to be digging in depth into this book. |
| 0:46.2 | This book not only talks about the Mormon Church's priesthood and temple ban on black people, some black people for over 150 years. |
| 0:56.0 | It's also a really important insider look at how Mormon church leaders are influenced, how they make decisions, Mormon church leaders are influenced, |
| 1:03.0 | how they make decisions, the political intrigue, |
| 1:07.0 | and just kind of how the sausage gets made. |
| 1:11.0 | We believe this is a historic book, I've already said it's one of the maybe top |
| 1:16.1 | three most important books I've ever read about Mormonism. And really quickly just to remind you all, |
| 1:25.0 | this series continuing is dependent on your support. |
| 1:29.0 | We want to pay Matt generously for not only a scholarship but for his time that he's taking to dig in depth. |
| 1:36.4 | This is sort of a director's cut podcast to take you behind the scenes of this book because |
| 1:41.3 | this book, while it was three or four hundred pages long could have been much |
| 1:45.0 | much longer and had to be edited down and then there's so much that Matt knows that even wasn't |
| 1:50.5 | included in the early drafts so this is the director's cut |
| 1:53.4 | insider view of the inner workings of the Mormon church as it relates to race and we |
| 1:58.8 | need your financial support if you want to see this continue like the LDS discussion series. The way to do that is to go to |
| 2:05.2 | donorbox.org slash Matt Harris and become a monthly donor. And as long as, let's just just say 50 of you step up to donate 10 bucks a month, maybe a |
| 2:20.4 | hundred because we want to do multiple episodes a month. |
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