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The Kindly Light of Myth in Circling Glue

The Kindly Light of Myth in Circling Glue

Leigh Thou Me on the Nightest Dark and I am far from home.

Alright everyone, welcome back to part 4 of our interview with Nadine McCombs Hansen. It's January 24th, 2017. This is John Dillin.

And we have had a great, fascinating conversation about Nadine, about her upbringing in the church, about her feminist and intellectual awakenings in the church.

And her time sort of budding as a participant dialogue in Sunstone, etc.

And her going back to law school as a mother or four.

And all sorts of really cool things including some analysis on the proclamation of the family and a brush with church discipline.

So if you haven't listened to parts 1 through 3, they're very much worth checking out.

And now Nadine, I think it's time to talk about retiring to Utah.

Is that right?

And what came next?

Yes. So in 1998, my husband retired from Lockheed and where he worked it for all of his career.

And we moved to Cedar City, Utah.

And that was in the spring of 1998.

And so we had to adjust to a little bit different lifestyle and different church environment.

Yeah, Cedar City is different than Northern California, it turns out.

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