Sixty years ago, the Mormon church was in danger of losing viability when it insisted on denying the priesthood to African-Americans and other racial groups. When I was in my teens, that was the most damaging issue among thinking Mormons. We talked about it. We struggled with it, and many lost faith over it. Highly respected members of the church wrote about it. A few years later, I wrote my first (and only) novel about it. It may not have been a good novel, but it was a novel based on deep and sincere concern. The LDS Church changed its attitudes and practices in 1978. Recently, the church offered additional justification for those changes by admitting that the practice was never doctrinal.