Professor Confronts Mormon Leaders on Racism - Lowry Nelson | Ep. 1913

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

Join us today as we discuss Mormon the priesthood and temple ban with historian Matt Harris. We will be talking about missionary work in South Africa, patriarchal blessings for black individuals, the removal of church leaders because of their ancestry, and the notes from the top secret meeting that came to be known as the Bennion report. Nate Byrd of the Black Menaces is joining us today to share his perspective.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host
0:04.8	John Delinn. It is June 6, 2024. We are here for part three of our amazing epic groundbreaking series on this book, Second Class Saints, Black
0:18.4	Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Dr Matthew Harris. As those of you know, we're doing a deep dive into the Mormon
0:29.3	Church's priesthood and temple ban on black people that lasted for over 150 years.
0:35.0	And this is not only integrated into the Mormon Stories Podcast feed, but it's also
0:41.0	its own standalone podcast on Spotify and on Apple
0:44.7	Podcast wherever you get your podcast. Today we're going to be covering one of the
0:49.2	most important heroes in 20th century Mormonism or maybe in all of Mormonism and his name is
0:59.6	Larry Nelson Dr. Larry Nelson I assume he was a PhD,
1:03.5	will, I'm pretty sure he was.
1:05.7	But this is a man who stood up for,
1:12.1	you know, black members of the church stood even spoke out against the
1:17.2	priesthood ban in the 40s, 1940s and 50s, and had not only a public debate with another BYU professor in a national magazine,
1:28.8	but also had several exchanges with the Mormon Church First Presidency and eventually this led to kind of
1:38.8	forced the hand of the Mormon Church First Presidency which led to one of the first, if not the first, sort of
1:46.7	of a doctrinal affirmations of the priesthood ban, which later gets reinterpreted as the opinions of church leaders, not necessarily
1:57.5	doctrine, just policy.
1:59.5	Anyway, this is a really important episode and I am joined today again by my colleague in all good things.
2:11.0	Horato Somano.
2:12.0	Hey Harardo. Hi John. Hey, Harardo.
2:13.0	Hi, John.
2:14.0	Thanks for joining me.
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