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Sabbath Devotional :: More Than One Story and Our Part In It
This weekend we honor and commemorate Pioneer Day in our church and for some, in our state. And for many, this commemoration can be much more complex than we sometimes make it. Pioneer Day seems to predominately celebrate those in the mid-1800s who migrated westward from the eastern United States or Europe to Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, and other states. We honor those who often saved and sold nearly everything they had to follow a prophet’s call to come build Zion and then to come west by handcart or wagon. Recently, the church has made great effort to acknowledge other types of pioneers — the pioneers of today who still…
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Are You Aware? The Consideration of the Ongoing Colonizing Project of Education
This is part V in our “Nation to Nation” Awareness Wednesday series. Read the other posts in the series here. “They steal, then they take your memory of the theft.” — Shad (2018) I sit here, in my living room, by my window overlooking the intersection in downtown Provo, Utah (if there is such a place). On the four corners are the Provo City Center Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the county health department, an auto body shop, and the apartment building where I live — Church, state, commerce, and home. Cars buzz by. So do the clouds. The sky is blue. And today is Pioneer…
