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June 13, 1978 edition of BYU student newspaper The Universe about the end of the Latter-day Saint ban on Black male ordination. The 1978 Declaration on Priesthood was an announcement by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) that reversed a long-standing policy excluding men of Black African descent from ordination to the denomination's priesthood and both ...
A Las Vegas jury determined in 1978 that the will, leaving Dummar $156 million, was a forgery. [4] Dummar's story was later adapted into Jonathan Demme's film Melvin and Howard in 1980, in which he was portrayed by actor Paul Le Mat. A 2005 reinvestigation of the circumstances surrounding the so-called Dummar Will yielded new evidence not ...
This article is a list of rulers in the Book of Mormon, including kings and chief judges among the Lamanites, Nephites, and Jaredites. [1] Dates cited below generally accord with those found in the Latter-day Saint scripture index. [2]
Top church leaders (called general authorities) used LDS scriptures to justify their explanations, including the Book of Moses (7:8), which teaches that the descendants of Canaan had 'a blackness come upon them' and Pharaoh could not have the priesthood because of his lineage (Abraham 1:27). In 1978, it was declared that the restriction was ...
This chronology outlines the major events in the history of the Book of Mormon, according to the text. Dates given correspond to dates in the footnotes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) edition of the Book of Mormon and to a Jaredite timeline proposed by Latter-Day Saint scholar John L. Sorenson. [1] [2]
Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the rock band Imagine Dragons, opened up about why he chose to leave Mormonism. Speaking with People in an interview published on Sunday, July 7, Reynolds, 36, was ...
Joseph Freeman Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is the first man of black African descent to receive the Melchizedek priesthood [1] and be ordained an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) after the announcement of the 1978 Revelation on Priesthood, which allowed "all worthy male members of the Church" to "be ordained to the priesthood without regard for race or color."
Josh Gad, who released his memoir “In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some” on Jan. 14, says his “Love & Other Drugs” co-star Jake Gyllenhaal warned him not to pursue a role in “The Book of Mormon ...