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- ↑ "Religion Book Review: BLACK AND MORMON by Newell G. Bringhurst, Editor, Darron T. Smith, Editor". Publishers Weekly . November 2004. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
- ↑ McIntyre, Stephen (2011). "Inside the "Loyal Opposition"" (PDF). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought . University of Illinois Press. 44 (4): 212–221. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- ↑ Fielding Anderson, Lavina (Spring 1993). "The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology" (PDF). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 26: 7–66.
- ↑ Peggy Fletcher Stack (5 September 2019). "Writer excommunicated during 'September Six' purge loses her bid to rejoin the LDS Church". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- ↑ "Mormons Penalize Dissident Members". The New York Times. 19 September 1993. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 11 April 2020.
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