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[…] I would restate the title of our panel and instead of saying “Go Ye Into All the World: To Convert or To Serve?” I would say “Go Ye Into All the World: To Serve […]
[…] her grandmothers—powerful matriarchs—were town midwives for many years and helped bring most of her contemporaries into the world. Her mother seems pale and invisible before her maternal grandmother but was still a woman with […]
[…] his basic isolation from larger social currents. School provided the main connection with the rest of the world for those children. In fact, most of the school dis trict’s confrontations with Linda’s father were […]
[…] is a conflict (Quinn 1985b). His splendid essay on authorized post-Manifesto marriages documents in painful detail the breaking of one truth against another (Quinn 1985a). I think of Nephi and his rebellious brothers—Nephi who […]
[…] a movement without direction, the results are remarkably similar. Classes always include scripture and Church history, maybe world affairs, some crafts, household efficiency, fitness (a pseudonym for losing weight), family life, and, ubiquitously, self-esteem […]
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[…] that similar circumstances do not determine similar results. There are so many challenges to living in today’s world that we must put our feet firmly in the present and not over reference ourselves to […]
[…] career in higher education as we hoped to prepare young Americans for a role in reshaping the world. After marriage, we moved to Washington State University where Ross began a Ph.D. program in American […]
[…] corner of a room that Vermeer painted again and again, as if he might understand the whole world through one place seen completely. Then I hurried down the long hall, past the antique pianofortes, […]