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2025-03-31T17:34:24-07:00

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My Independent Wish List for LDS Missionaries

Last updated on: March 31, 2025 at 5:34 pm By Margaret Blair Young

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I have no authority to do anything I’ll list below. I hope that some people who do have authority will discuss any of these ideas which look feasible. My biggest concern for African missionaries is that presently they finish their missions and often can’t find work. If they learned certain skills during their missionary service, they would be better prepared for the future. Missionaries – Goal: Train all for post-mission service. The LDS Church has a lot of money and... Read more

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2025-03-26T17:13:35-07:00

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“Woke” as a shibboleth

Last updated on: March 26, 2025 at 5:13 pm By Margaret Blair Young

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We all learned more than we wanted to about political signals over the past while. Kamala Harris had several, my favorite being: “We’re not going Back.” Trump replayed his “Make America Great Again!” slogan, and obviously, it worked. Kamala’s slogan suggests that we are a better nation now than we were in the 1950s, when birth control was restricted and racial segregation was a fact of life. Kamala was “woke”–a word which has perhaps exhausted its usefulness. The “woke” among... Read more

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2025-01-17T16:12:52-07:00

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Questions for Any LDS Utah Judge (including Bishops)

Last updated on: January 17, 2025 at 4:12 pm By Margaret Blair Young

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The most transformative experiences during my years of researching and writing about Black LDS pioneers and their descendants happened as I became friends with the Black LDS population in Utah and elsewhere. Both Darius Gray (my co-author) and I experienced miracles as we told the stories of Jane Manning James, Green Flake, and Elijah Abel. It was clear that we had divine help. But it was also clear that the racial divide hadn’t gotten much better since these pioneers were... Read more

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2025-01-17T15:06:29-07:00

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The Judge – How It Ended, Part 2

Last updated on: January 17, 2025 at 3:06 pm By Margaret Blair Young

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I thought the story of my friend, Maye, was finished when I submitted my last Patheos blog in “The Judge” series. Fortunately, it did not end when I thought it had ended. Maye[s case actually ended on November 16, 2022, when the decision from the Utah Board of Pardons came down. (For background information, see my series starting with Part 1): Maye was given a unanimous and unconditional pardon by the state of Utah, and all of the charges against... Read more

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2024-11-27T14:30:27-07:00

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Giving Machines: Easy as Buying a Candy Bar

Last updated on: November 27, 2024 at 2:30 pm By Margaret Blair Young

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In 2006, my youngest children were ages 14 and 16. I had become concerned by the ways external media was nudging their world views into concern with self. Ads showed ridiculously skinny models, ridiculously big houses, and all things glittery. It all felt like propaganda from Vanity Fair. My children were not getting a sense of how most of the world lived. They were spoiled by their privilege and unaware that for many, having a working toilet was an extravagance. I... Read more

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2024-06-01T11:38:08-07:00

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Failed Coup in the DR-C, part 3

Last updated on: June 1, 2024 at 11:38 am By Margaret Blair Young

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On Instagram, coup participant Marcel Malanga had a screenshot of these verses in Deuteronomy 28, from LDS scriptures (so identified because of the footnotes): “The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou... Read more

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2024-06-03T10:54:01-07:00

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Coup Failure in the DR-Congo, Part 2

Last updated on: June 3, 2024 at 10:54 am By Margaret Blair Young

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My first contact with Joseph Malanga, Christian Malanga’s father, was in October, 2014. He heard that we were making a film in the DR-Congo and sent me a note: “I want to be involved.” Joseph was a refugee from the Congo and the president of the African Help Line Society, which no longer exists. He sought financing from various grant makers and emphasized the great poverty and corruption in the DRC, as shown in this youtube which he liked to... Read more

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2024-06-03T10:45:18-07:00

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Failed Coup in the DR-Congo – Part I

Last updated on: June 3, 2024 at 10:45 am By Margaret Blair Young

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I looked at my text messages on Sunday morning, May 19, 2024. I had one from a number I didn’t recognize. It was a Facebook Live video. I pushed the arrow to see it. There was Christian Malanga, a resident of Salt Lake City who is a Congolese national, dressed in Congolese military fatigues, a red beret on his head, camouflage pants. My first thought was, “Christian, where did you get those clothes? And why are you wearing them?” I... Read more

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2024-04-08T12:42:04-07:00

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Endangered Albinos in the DR-Congo

Last updated on: April 8, 2024 at 12:42 pm By Margaret Blair Young

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When my husband and I were missionaries in Mbuji Mayi, DR-Congo, we noticed that there were many albino people. When we traveled to Ngandajika, we met some doctors from Spain who were there to treat Albino children, many of whom had tumors. That was two years ago. Today, we are finishing a film which features several albino actors, and we are working to support doctors in the area (Kasai province). These doctors remove tumors and otherwise treat skin conditions endemic... Read more

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2023-11-25T17:12:59-07:00

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The New Lumumba Film: It’s time!

Last updated on: November 25, 2023 at 5:12 pm By Margaret Blair Young

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Patrice Lumumba Film: Why NOW is the moment. Starting in July, 2023, events from the 1960s have drawn unusual attention. The film Oppenheimer (July 2023) was an unmitigated success. Though the atomic bomb was created in the 1940s, Christopher Nolan’s film is framed with Oppenheimer’s status in the 1960s, when his alleged “Communist” alliances brought him into the anti-Communist fear mongering. The decision of Lewis Strauss to refuse Oppenheimer a security clearance is particularly important, inasmuch as Senator John F.... Read more

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