Natalie Brown: Maybe LDS leaders can make big changes without big revelations

The 1978 lifting of the priesthood/temple ban shows how discussion, debate and consensus in the revelatory process could lead to reforms on, say, women and gender.

(The Salt Lake Tribune) Spencer W. Kimball, right, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with counselor Marion G. Romney, presides over a session of General Conference in October 1978, when members approved Kimball's lifting of the priesthood/temple ban.

Natalie Brown: Maybe LDS leaders can make big changes without big revelations

The 1978 lifting of the priesthood/temple ban shows how discussion, debate and consensus in the revelatory process could lead to reforms on, say, women and gender.

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