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Blogger Says Gender Gaps in LDS Youth Program Could Hurt Retention

A By Common Consent blogger, like church President Dallin Oaks, sees “more to do” to enhance gender equity in the global faith of The Church of Jesus Christ...

Black Latter-day Saints still would like an apology, LDS theologian says

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a fraught history on race. For more than a century, members of African descent were barred from the priesthood...

Author Matthew Harris traces how the LDS church ended its ban on Black members holding the priesthood and entering the temple in 1978

For 126 years, Black men in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were barred from holding the priesthood, and Black women and men were not allowed...

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