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Here is a link to a book that some of you may be interested in. Margaret Olsen Hemming and Fatimah Salleh wrote a commentary for the Book of Mormon.

"Across our differences--black, white, brown, indigenous, bond, free, male, female, gay, straight, living the principle, attending and tithing, or seeking another way altogether--what bonds LDS/Mormon people together is our relationship to the Book of Mormon.......In this powerful new contribution to LDS scriptural study, Dr. Fatimah S. Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming have wrestled with the Book of Mormon in a whole new way: as a text that addresses inequality, trauma, dysfunction, and catastrophe and offers insights essential to achieving that dimension of Zion we call social justice."--Joanna Brooks

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Mormon-Least-These-ebook/dp/B083H9BCZ5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=for+the+least+of+these+book+of+mormon&qid=1578340256&s=books&sr=1-1

This social justice commentary of the Book of Mormon empowers readers to understand the text as a book that speaks to issues of racism, sexism, immigration, refugees, and socioeconomic inequality. The Book of Mormon For the Least of These offers an unflinching examination of some of the difficult...

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The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Volume 1

This social justice commentary of the Book of Mormon empowers readers to understand the text as a book that speaks to issues of racism, sexism, immigration, refugees, and socioeconomic inequality. The Book of Mormon For the Least of These offers an unflinching examination of some of the difficult...

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  Sharman Hunter Wilson Just ordered it and can't wait to read it as we start this year's study! I am convinced that the ways scripture comes to us is more complicated than we like to think.It may be more like the telephone game we play as kids where a simple phrase gets whispered down a line of not-exactly-focused kids and comes out almost unrecognizable at the other end. It might be helpful to remember that God's voice has to be filtered through all those neural connections firing inside the particular limited mind of a relatively ignorant human being living in a particular finite place at a particular fixed time in a particular imperfect language. Add to that the notion that God respects our agency and doesn't fix all our mistakes, even when we are trying to do godly work. Why is that? It might be because wrestling with our own and others' human weaknesses is the point of life. I get uncomfortable when I see pride, racism and sexism in the B of M, but then I turn the page and find beautiful words of comfort and universalism that envelop "black and white, bond and free, male and female" in God's love. I have to wrestle with the complications and it (hopefully) makes me stronger.