(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Black Menaces, shown in April, have been filming TikTok videos addressing racism at BYU in Provo. It doesn’t hurt, Bushman adds in the podcast, to accept church callings as well. “Purge out any desire to tweak the church, to sort of correct the church,” he says, “and just desire to really say what you believe is true.” The key to staying true to the scholarship and to the faith when addressing sensitive topics, says Bushman, an emeritus history professor at Columbia University, is to “keep your heart pure, and let your mind run free.” It’s just very hard to do in Utah, because there’s such a presence.” You’ve got to write what you think is true.
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“You can’t write to please the general authorities. You can’t do that,” Bushman tells Wheat & Tares blogger Rick Bennett in a “ Gospel Tangents” podcast. “The trouble is, if you live in Utah, you write, aware of general authorities looking over your shoulder. Richard Bushman, author of “ Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling” and the dean of Mormon historians, says it may be easier for Latter-day Saint scholars who don’t live in the Beehive State to write about the church.
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(Photo courtesy of Richard Bushman) Latter-day Saint scholar Richard Bushman says it may be easier for historians to write about Mormon history from outside of Utah. That way, gun owners would internalize the costs of gun ownership and society would be reimbursed for (some of) the costs they suffered.” “.Tax dollars would be earmarked specifically to reimburse victims of gun violence for their costs. “Guns are too cheap,” argued Brunson, a tax law professor at Loyola University Chicago. In that vein, By Common Consent blogger Sam Brunson offered a starting point for reining in the prevalence of firearms and gun violence in U.S. “I have a firm belief that praying for those in need is pleasing to God,” he wrote recently on Instagram, adding that people also should ask what they can do to “minister, lift, love and support those in need” in bringing about much good in the world. Plenty of political, civic and religious leaders have been offering their “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of the Texas tragedy. The current General Handbook continues that prohibition, stating that “firearms and other lethal weapons are not allowed on church property.” In 2019, the church reinforced its ban on “guns” - unless carried by law enforcement officers - in its meetinghouses and temples.
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Holland touched on the topic in the April 2020 General Conference, soon after the COVID-19 pandemic struck, when he urged members to commit to building a better world. To be clear, the Utah-based faith has taken no public position on gun control legislation - nor did Nelson’s remarks spell out a specific stance on any measures.Ī couple of years later, apostle Jeffrey R. “Well, God allows us to have our agency, and men have passed laws that allow guns to go to people who shouldn’t have them.” “How could God allow things like that to happen?” he told a congregation of Latter-day Saint millennials in Las Vegas. laws - or the lack thereof - governing guns. Nelson said soon after the deadly attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.īarely a month after taking the church’s helm in early 2018, Nelson lamented U.S. In the aftermath of this week’s horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, we look back at what President Russell M.
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