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[…] separating church and state becomes a truly troublesome and frustrating task. Where do loyalty and duty lie, for example, when your Stake President asks you as president of a Mormon Elders’ Quorum to have […]
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[…] (the good guys) are engaged in a deathly struggle with the Market Place (the bad guy). Un fortunately, art and religion have not seen, in Professor Clark’s world, the need to unify and are […]
[…] significant literary historians: Bernard DeVoto, Vardis Fisher, and Wallace Stegner. DeVoto, perhaps best remembered as a crusader for public causes rather than as an historian, wrote so voluminously that simply to list his works […]
[…] fit into contemporary theater? Or does he fit? Or should he? These were no mere academic questions for me. I was returning to my career as a professional actor and playwright at a resident […]
[…] culture, its triumphs, and its challenges. My personal wrestle with the Divine and life with scrupulosity in forms my spiritual lens and creative expression. My art explores the Divine, the personal, the community, and […]
[…] here. The new young Bishop Fredning had not asked Vernie to prepare and narrate the Christmas program. For the first time in twenty-seven years, the bishop of the West Bench Ward had not called […]
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[…] realizes at church Sunday morning that still, after all these years, she does not have fond feelings for the chapel. She doesn’t want to hold on to any grudges against it—she doesn’t take it […]