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Mormon author says “we just can’t shame women” for not following the wife-and-mother script

By Jana Riess — August 11, 2015
Many Mormon women “have this ideal of who they’re supposed to be in order to be good and to be loved," says author Jamie Zvirzdin. But what happens when they go off script? Enter the new book "Fresh Courage Take."

NPR at the MTC: Mormon missionaries’ impressive foreign language skills

By Jana Riess — June 9, 2014
An optimistic estimate is that only one in four Americans speaks a foreign language competently. But because of Mormons' missionary work, far higher percentages of Mormons are fluent in other languages. What can this teach us?
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