To President Spencer W. Kimball came the burden of teaching a practice that was bound to be seen in retrospect by many as racist. He, and the brethren of the day following him, taught that inter-racial marriage was not a good idea–not that it was sinful, but that it should be discouraged. I just got done reading Franz Fanon’s Black Skin: White Masks, and several of his points have convinced me that only a mix of our Jane Austin inspired notion of romance’s primacy and current political expediency have brought so many to see this as an issue of racism. (more…)

After a hiatus of not being well connected, I was recently called to serve in a bishopric. I was amazed. After all, it had been less than 5 years since my last stint, but boy had things changed. I was familiar with PEC (priesthood executive committee), but there were new phenomena designated by letters with which I was not so familiar. (more…)