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English
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Present at the Beginning : One Woman's Journey
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2003
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36
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no.3
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65-69
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Higdon recounts her years of work in the Community of Christ church, formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), in the 1970's-90's. One of the first women to be ordained in the church, Higdon describes the personal and cultural importance of the church's acceptance of women in ordained roles with the adoption of Section 156 of the RLDS Doctrine and Covenants in 1984.