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Lifting the priesthood ban
Lifting the Priesthood ban
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- Gospel Topics: "Church leaders pondered promises made by prophets such as Brigham Young that black members would one day receive priesthood and temple blessings"
- Question: How does the revelatory process work in the case of something like the lifting of the priesthood ban?
- Question: What social and cultural obstacles stood in the way of ending the priesthood ban?
- Question: What circumstances preceded the 1978 revelation which ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: Were there witnesses to the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: What testimonies were offered regarding the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
Lifting the Priesthood ban
Jump to details:
- Gospel Topics: "Church leaders pondered promises made by prophets such as Brigham Young that black members would one day receive priesthood and temple blessings"
- Question: How does the revelatory process work in the case of something like the lifting of the priesthood ban?
- Question: What social and cultural obstacles stood in the way of ending the priesthood ban?
- Question: What circumstances preceded the 1978 revelation which ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: Were there witnesses to the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: What testimonies were offered regarding the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
Lifting the Priesthood ban
Jump to details:
- Gospel Topics: "Church leaders pondered promises made by prophets such as Brigham Young that black members would one day receive priesthood and temple blessings"
- Question: How does the revelatory process work in the case of something like the lifting of the priesthood ban?
- Question: What social and cultural obstacles stood in the way of ending the priesthood ban?
- Question: What circumstances preceded the 1978 revelation which ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: Were there witnesses to the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: What testimonies were offered regarding the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
Lifting the Priesthood ban
Jump to details:
- Gospel Topics: "Church leaders pondered promises made by prophets such as Brigham Young that black members would one day receive priesthood and temple blessings"
- Question: How does the revelatory process work in the case of something like the lifting of the priesthood ban?
- Question: What social and cultural obstacles stood in the way of ending the priesthood ban?
- Question: What circumstances preceded the 1978 revelation which ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: Were there witnesses to the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: What testimonies were offered regarding the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
Lifting the Priesthood ban
Jump to details:
- Gospel Topics: "Church leaders pondered promises made by prophets such as Brigham Young that black members would one day receive priesthood and temple blessings"
- Question: How does the revelatory process work in the case of something like the lifting of the priesthood ban?
- Question: What social and cultural obstacles stood in the way of ending the priesthood ban?
- Question: What circumstances preceded the 1978 revelation which ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: Were there witnesses to the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: What testimonies were offered regarding the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
Lifting the Priesthood ban
Jump to details:
- Gospel Topics: "Church leaders pondered promises made by prophets such as Brigham Young that black members would one day receive priesthood and temple blessings"
- Question: How does the revelatory process work in the case of something like the lifting of the priesthood ban?
- Question: What social and cultural obstacles stood in the way of ending the priesthood ban?
- Question: What circumstances preceded the 1978 revelation which ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: Were there witnesses to the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: What testimonies were offered regarding the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
Lifting the Priesthood ban
Jump to details:
- Gospel Topics: "Church leaders pondered promises made by prophets such as Brigham Young that black members would one day receive priesthood and temple blessings"
- Question: How does the revelatory process work in the case of something like the lifting of the priesthood ban?
- Question: What social and cultural obstacles stood in the way of ending the priesthood ban?
- Question: What circumstances preceded the 1978 revelation which ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: Were there witnesses to the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
- Question: What testimonies were offered regarding the revelation that ended the priesthood ban?
Further Reading
Additional information about the end of the priesthood restriction is available in the following resources:
- "Race and the Priesthood," Gospel Topics Essay, Gospel Library
- Edward L. Kimball, "Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood," BYU Studies 47, no. 2 (Spring 2008)
- “The Priesthood Organization,” episode 5 of The Priesthood Restored: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast
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