A new Deseret Book publication doesn’t sugarcoat the challenges Black Latter-day Saints face, sometimes from those with whom they share a pew.
“I liked the candor and the vulnerability that permeates the stories and hope for more of this in the future.”Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness,They “tend to speak of growing up with God, of being spiritually aware, of having a love for Jesus and then bringing that love with them into the [church],” Reeve writes.
Many white Latter-day Saints and other Americans seem to think “I don’t see color” is a progressive way of thinking, but it seems to contradict basic Christian theology. Does Jesus see color? she wonders. “Every time I approach the scriptures, I feel Jesus looking at this body of color in fullness and through all things.”This April 3, 1968, file photo shows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., second from right, standing with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place. From left are Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, King, and Ralph Abernathy.
Earl Joseph Hunter Jr. joined the Utah-based faith in 1980, and now, in his 70s, that means he has spent decades as a member, serving in a variety of church assignments in his Virginia congregation. Fulfilling those commitments, he writes, “is very important to me.”
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