Item Detail
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29837
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English
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Engaging Students in the Church's Foyer
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Sunstone
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May 1988
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65
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5
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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5-5
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"Last May the Mormon History
Association annual meeting the hallway groups
buzzed about "the graying of MHA" -prompted
by the very visible fact that there were almost
no people in attendance who were in their
twenties and few in their thirties. "Aren’t today’s
students interested in the thoughtful discussion
of their history and faith?"
people asked. "Are we losing the younger generation
to Church Correlation?" a
sociologist pondered.
Others blamed the
materialistic, intellectually
apathetic, career-minded
eighties college student,
which Garry Trudeau frequently lampoons.
The concern is not
limited to historians. Low
college-age participation
has been noticed at other conferences and is
being addressed by other organizations. Leaders
of LDS women’s organizations and retreats have
noted similar trends. The board of editors of
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought recently
discussed the importance of recruiting thoughtful young LDS authors" [From Author]