Interessante, muito bom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23owsv-R0fs&t=3686

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Here's a podcast about her if you are interested

https://www.projectzionpodcast.org/podcast/603-cuppa-joe-women-of-the-restoration-ruth-smith/

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i got the opinion of 2 Black members of #CommunityofChrist

all 3 of us believe that Coc Doctrine and Covenants116 should not he moved to an index.

i feel strongly about this bc i believe that God communicated with the Prophet to inspire him to write that revelation. not only that but it a revelation that shows an attempt at the value of persons we proffess. worth of all persons

i will collect more opinions & testimonies from Black Saints in #CofChrist and compile them

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continuing my reading of Invisible Saints: A History of Black Americans in the Reorganized Church.

The book was published in 1988 so it's interesting to see how some of the aspirations for racial justice have fruits i see in 2022.

some of the same issues are still present in the church as well, of course. it's very interesting to read from the future.

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now going through a presentation on Race and the Priesthood in #CommunityOfChrist specifically.

there was never a ban but i know there were challenges. it seems the prompting of the revelation confiming Black priesthood was the end of the Civil War. There weren't many Black people involved in the early Reorganization, but i think my next book will give more context.

Joseph Smith and "The" "First" "Vision"

Was the first vision a “vision”? Was it the “first” one? Which one is “The” first vision?

The Different Accounts Do Not Tell a Consistent Story as the church claims...

Continue reading: https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-and-the-first-vision/

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