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2013-05-17T08:13:32-07:00

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Wedding Rehearsal Revisited

Last updated on: May 17, 2013 at 8:13 am By Margaret Blair Young

My husband and I celebrate twenty-eight years of marriage today, May 17th. Bruce, as most of my friends know, was my professor before he was my husband. I got free tuition when I married him. He was thirty-four and insecure. I was twenty-nine and damaged. On one of our early dates, we went to the temple. I quietly prayed that we would be able to do sealings after the endowment session–a rather odd request, I know, but it seemed terribly... Read more

2013-05-11T08:01:30-07:00

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I Think I’m In The Wrong Room

Last updated on: May 11, 2013 at 8:01 am By Margaret Blair Young

I prepared my conference paper with a particular audience in mind—the one I know: Mormons, specifically academic Mormons. The conference was the American Academy of Religion, Seattle, and I (so I thought) would be part of the Mormon contingent. I went to my session with Blair Hodges, who was also set to present. As my readers would expect, I had prepared a presentation on race and Mormonism—specifically what we mean by the recent Church statement, “We condemn racism, including any... Read more

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Judgment at Nuremberg

2013-04-29T16:00:37-07:00

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Letter to a Struggling RM

Last updated on: April 29, 2013 at 4:00 pm By Margaret Blair Young

He could be anyone. I might have made him up. Or this might be the template letter I sent to every missionary I wrote to after they returned. Someone once told me that we need a post-mission MTC–the RMTC. The struggles missionaries encounter upon their return when they are suddenly without a companion, back in the “real world,” and in culture shock when they enter their own bedrooms deserves some special treatment. So here is my letter: Dear R.M. I... Read more

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2020-06-17T11:39:23-07:00

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Darius Gray and a Wish List for BYU

Last updated on: June 17, 2020 at 11:39 am By Margaret Blair Young

I wrote some of this in 2013, but it has additional relevance today, so I have brought it up again and revised it. Not much revision. I retired from BYU two years ago. I don’t know if there’s an African American Studies major, though I know African Studies exists. I would love more information. DARIUS: In 1965 when Darius Gray came to BYU, he was called in to the Dean of Students’ office. “We’ve had complaints,” the dean... Read more

2013-04-23T07:59:23-07:00

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For My Friend, Who’s Going through the Temple for the First Time

Last updated on: April 23, 2013 at 7:59 am By Margaret Blair Young

Dear Ms. C: I received this in an email from a Congolese friend, Aime Mbuyi, two years ago: Long before I went into the Ghana temple as a missionary, I knew that it was the House of God. Two years earlier, my cousin had come to me and told me that he had had a discussion with some people who had just been in the USA. He said that these people had told him bad things about the Church and... Read more

2013-04-17T17:09:34-07:00

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We Are All Your Children

Last updated on: April 17, 2013 at 5:09 pm By Margaret Blair Young

If you don’t want to get involved with a charity to help a poverty-stricken child, then don’t ask for “more information” when these organizations advertise. They will send you a picture and ask if you’d like to sponsor this particular child. You will do it. You cannot look into a child’s eyes and say, “No. I don’t want to help you.” This is our human response to what philosopher Emmanuel Levinas terms “the face of the other.” He suggests that... Read more

2013-04-15T12:01:43-07:00

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Len Hope–in his own words

Last updated on: April 15, 2013 at 12:01 pm By Margaret Blair Young

This is the story of Len and Mary Hope, black converts to Mormonism. Len was baptized just before WWI near Magnolia, Alabama, and Mary later on in Cincinnati. When they first attended church, they were asked not to return. Their response was, “Can we still pay our tithing?” Len and Mary became dear friends with Elder Marion D. Hanks, one of the missionaries who went to their home monthly and served them the sacrament. After the sacrament the Hope family... Read more

2013-04-12T11:35:56-07:00

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Bruce Loves Margaret (and visa versa)

Last updated on: April 12, 2013 at 11:35 am By Margaret Blair Young

Our courtship is slightly famous. Bruce gives his students copies of the essay he wrote about it, and I have my students read it as well. And then, to boldly move it into the public blogosphere, Rosalynde Welch wrote about it here. The truth is, Bruce had been assigned by his friend Phil Barlow to write the essay for a book, but he hadn’t finished it by the 1984 deadline. Actually, he hadn’t started it–though he had good ideas. He thought he’d... Read more

2013-04-01T18:01:24-07:00

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A Public Confession to my Bishop

Last updated on: April 1, 2013 at 6:01 pm By Margaret Blair Young

Dear Bishop: I just did a bad thing. I didn’t mean for it to get to out of hand. I underestimated my passion, and the passion of…well, you know how it happens. It started out so innocently. First of all, it was April Fools’ Day, and I did what felt right. I wrote a lie on Facebook. I included you, Bishop, in the lie. I said: Seriously, I’m surprised. I have no idea who inspired this (Gladys Knight?), but my... Read more

2013-03-27T14:26:33-07:00

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I Broke Down at the Veil

Last updated on: March 27, 2013 at 2:26 pm By Margaret Blair Young

In this post, I’m going to include something I wrote for By Common Consent in November, when my father made his last trip to the temple to be with my niece, Amber, his granddaughter, who was being endowed. It was miraculous that Dad was able to attend. Another niece of mine, Kristen, will be endowed on Friday, but we will not get the miracle this time. Dad is not up to it. We talked last night, Dad and I, for a... Read more

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