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Faculty Demographics at BYU
A couple weeks ago, President Nelson issued a joint statement with the NAACP condemning racial injustice. Toward the end of that statement, they said: We likewise call on government, business, and...
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No More Disposition to Speak Evil: A Lesson Plan to Address Racism in the Church
Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash Here is a lesson plan for BCC readers who need a Sunday School or Relief Society/Elder’s Quorum lesson to address white nationalism. I welcome...
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Accomplishing God’s Work of Leading Out Against Prejudice
I wish the Church would tackle racism and nationalism with the same energy it devotes to sex. It’s not difficult to envision. Just take every resource the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
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Yesterday morning, my wife came upstairs and told me that NPR had a story about taxes. She also mentioned that it would probably annoy me. (She gets me.) But I decided to turn it on just to see who...
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“Severe, Pervasive, and Objectively Offensive Race-Based Harassment”
Photo by Rolande PG on Unsplash Yesterday the Salt Lake Tribune reported on the end of a Department of Justice investigation into the Davis School District in Utah. And frankly, its findings were...
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“Lead Out in Abandoning Attitudes and Actions of Prejudice”
Note: between when I drafted this post and when I scheduled it to go live, Bro. Wilcox apologized for his statement. And it’s a real-deal kind of apology, not a squishy avoiding-blame one; in fact,...
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Living Our Values: FTSOY and Tucker Carlson
When I was a teenager, I, like so many of my cohort, had a copy of the church’s 1990 pamphlet For the Strength of Youth. The pamphlet has a section entitled “Media: Movies, Television, Radio,...
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Yearning and Trane
Yesterday I watched Chasing Trane, a documentary on jazz luminary John Coltrane. (I mentioned Coltrane my introduction to Coltrane in my tribute to Dr. Ray Smith.) The documentary is a perfectly...
View ArticleAnti-Racism, the Bystander Effect, and BYU
Friday night, a racist BYU fan harassed a Black women’s volleyball player playing for Duke. Among other things, he threatened her and called her a racial slur that is arguably the most offensive word...
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The LDS Church Supports the Respect for Marriage Act
You may have heard that yesterday the church came out in support of the Respect for Marriage Act. For reasons I’ll describe in a minute, this support is, in my humble opinion, a big deal. But before...
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