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At the same time, many of the come-outers brought with them a fear of religion from their painful growing-up days in more dogmatic churches, so ministers had to work with that fear, reframing conventional theological language so these folks could feel safe to explore new forms of spirituality.
Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011
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At the same time, many of the come-outers brought with them a fear of religion from their painful growing-up days in more dogmatic churches, so ministers had to work with that fear, reframing conventional theological language so these folks could feel safe to explore new forms of spirituality.
Marilyn Sewell: Why Unitarians and Universalists Belong Together: A Fifty-Year Recollection Marilyn Sewell 2011
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And to Mattel & Nick: If you're going to let Dora grow up and get all sexy, I have a few suggestions on appropriate growing-up Dora sets:
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Fame celebrates the growing-up process of honing talent, confronting realities, finding love, living life.
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And to Mattel & Nick: If you're going to let Dora grow up and get all sexy, I have a few suggestions on appropriate growing-up Dora sets:
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Not much has changed on the mountainsides or in the forest in the canyon where I lived all my growing-up summers as a tomboy with my brothers and cousins, so many now in parentheses.
Emma Lou Thayne: Prayers Of Longing And Thanks Emma Lou Thayne 2011
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These are values I've long espoused, but not qualities I developed in my growing-up family, nor in a long marriage.
Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: (R)evolution Rachael Freed 2011
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These are values I've long espoused, but not qualities I developed in my growing-up family, nor in a long marriage.
Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: (R)evolution Rachael Freed 2011
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Not much has changed on the mountainsides or in the forest in the canyon where I lived all my growing-up summers as a tomboy with my brothers and cousins, so many now in parentheses.
Emma Lou Thayne: Prayers Of Longing And Thanks Emma Lou Thayne 2011
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I spent a lot of growing-up years hanging around the church next to our house in Trenton.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011
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