This episode was part of the 2012 Salt Lake City Mormon Stories Conference.

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And thanks for listening.

As wonderful as all of the speakers are and all of the musicians and everything that we

have at the conference, I think one of the things that makes this conference so great

is all of you.

And so special thanks to everybody who is here and who makes this conference a wonderful

place and a comforting and loving place.

I came across a quote by Tim McGraw, which is funny, so not really a big country music fan,

but he said, we all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take

a little, a little of each other everywhere.

And that's how I feel about this Mormon Stories community.

Today we're going to start this session with a musical number by Tia and Keith Callister.

And this is an original work of music that they have put together for us.

And then we are so honored and thrilled to have Claudia Bushman.

And I'll go ahead and introduce Claudia now.

And then she can just come up after the musical number.

Tia Bushman is one of Mormonism's most prominent intellectuals and feminists.

An American historian, writer, teacher, editor, activist, mother of six, and thinker.

She holds degrees from Wellesley, Brigham Young University, and Boston University.

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