"Not One-Drop" of African Blood - Brigham Young’s Curse of Cain Doctrine | Ep. 1906
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Summary
In this new series on Mormon Leadership, historian Matt Harris discusses Mormonism's early racism, focusing on the priesthood and temple ban for Black members. He explores the church's opposition to civil rights, the experiences of Black Latter-day Saints like Jane Manning James and Elijah Abel, and the evolving theology around race. Harris challenges misconceptions about prophetic revelation and the origins of the ban, shedding light on this complex and painful history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. It is June 3rd, 2024 and I could not be more excited for a brand new |
| 0:11.0 | project slash podcast series that we are hoping to kick off today, you know, |
| 0:20.1 | depending on your your support and |
| 0:24.1 | listenership as viewers and listeners. |
| 0:27.0 | The impetus for today is this ground, |
| 0:29.9 | what I believe is a groundbreaking new book entitled Second Class Saints Black Mormons and the |
| 0:37.9 | struggle for racial equality by Dr. Matthew Harris. |
| 0:44.1 | Please pause your podcast right now. |
| 0:46.8 | Go to Amazon or Benchmark Books. |
| 0:48.7 | Buy this book. |
| 0:50.4 | Every single paragraph so far, I've highlighted something or put a big red star by it |
| 0:56.0 | because to me it's earth shattering and I've been reading Mormon history books for 20 to 30 years |
| 1:00.8 | depending on how you start counting. |
| 1:05.6 | But those of you who follow Mormon Stories |
| 1:08.5 | Podcast will know that we just recently have been, |
| 1:16.2 | you know, 50 episodes into an independent podcast series on Mormon stories that's part of Mormon stories but it's also |
| 1:21.5 | its own project and that's the LDS discussion series that has |
| 1:26.4 | been highly, highly successful both on Mormon stories and is its own |
| 1:30.1 | podcast and we are excited to announce the soft launch, the draft launch, the beta |
| 1:36.8 | launch of a new possible podcast series with Dr Matthew Harris. Now you will if those of you have been |
| 1:45.7 | following Mormon Stories podcast for years will remember Matt Harris. We had him on to talk about Esertab Benson and his role in the Mormon |
| 1:57.5 | Church in the 20th century and we've also had him on to talk about the Gospel |
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