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		<title>Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 23, 1980. I am in labor. A midwife attends me at my home. The pain is greater than anything I could have imagined. “Is it close?” I ask. The midwife nods. She’s a Mormon hippie, and she’s smiling. “Hurry,” I moan. “Oh no,” says the midwife. “There’s nothing to hurry.” “Please.” “I think it’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=32758&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to a Lost One from Long Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this letter while looking for something else. Does it matter when I wrote it? I don&#8217;t think so. Does it matter whether I wrote it to one of my children or just in a fit of maternal imagination? I don&#8217;t think it does. If you are the parent of a struggling child, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=29015&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Is No Respecter of Persons&#8211;How&#8217;s That Workin&#8217; For Ya?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have now had lesson #30 in Gospel Doctrine: &#8220;God is No Respecter of Persons.&#8221; The young man I team-teach with taught it three weeks ago, and I watched, mostly in silence. MOSTLY. My students know what I do, so the question came up, directed to me: &#8220;Why was there a priesthood restriction?&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=28173&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: Elder Marion Duff Hanks</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/08/08/in-memoriam-elder-marion-d-hanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, I woke my son with the words, &#8220;Elder Hanks has died.&#8221; He responded, &#8220;Duffy? He died?&#8221; I always called him Elder Hanks, and got upset when some of the aides in the center where he spent his last years called him Duff and handled him like a child. I wanted to yell, &#8220;Do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=27943&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctified Memory</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/07/30/sanctifiedmemory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, I attended the funeral of a long-time English department colleague, Richard G. Ellsworth, who was also in the Provo ward of my childhood: Oak Hills II. Richard was our enthusiastic chorister, the kind of conductor who invested his body and his hair (it was long enough to react to his arms&#8217; energetic movements&#8211;and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=27782&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All God&#8217;s Critters: Some Thoughts on the Priesthood Restriction and Differing Opinions &#8211; Part III</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/07/24/all-gods-critters-some-thoughts-on-the-priesthood-restriction-and-differing-opinions-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part III Prejudice, which President Kimball called “thou ugly,” mattered deeply to President Gordon B. Hinckley. He was troubled to hear about anyone being mistreated—and particularly when the excuse for mistreatment was race-based. Darius Gray was similarly concerned as he received countless calls from men and women all over the United States who were still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=12696&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All God&#8217;s Critters: Some Thoughts on the Priesthood Restriction and Differing Opinions, Part II</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/07/23/all-gods-critters-some-thoughts-on-the-priesthood-restriction-and-differing-opinions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PART II As I state in the poem quoted in Part I of this series, I do believe that what we call “race” is a gift, but certainly not one which must include extra pain for those with extra melanin. Because humans will always find excuses for division, race offers a ready pretext and also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=27694&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All God’s Critters: Some Thoughts on the Priesthood Restriction and Differing Opinions</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/07/22/all-god%e2%80%99s-critters-some-thoughts-on-the-priesthood-restriction-and-differing-opinions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I In the current cover story of LDS Living Magazine, Keith Hamilton tells about his journey as a Black Latter-day Saint—which has been remarkable. The article is based on Keith’s new book, Eleventh Hour Laborer. I enjoyed his book (in fact, I did a blurb for his back cover), though I differ strongly with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=27681&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/05/08/faith-and-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 04:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have taught some unimaginably good writers—though I’ll probably have to revise that modifier (&#8220;unimaginably&#8221;) at the end of this essay. I have taught poets who had far greater gifts than I, essayists who invited me into new paradigms or experiences, and fiction writers who took me on unanticipated journeys. This past semester, I taught [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=26519&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sufjan Stevens and a Few Thoughts on Mormon Art</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2010/11/06/sujfan-stevens-and-a-few-thoughts-on-mormon-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Blair Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Cross posted on www.aml-online.org) We should have known that anyone who could write a melodic, lyrical ballad about a serial killer (John Wayne Gacy) still had some secrets and mysteries to explore. In fact, he announced just that in the final lines of the John Wayne Gacy song: And in my best behavior I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=21895&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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