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EP 140: The SECRET to the Success You Crave -- in every area of life!
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Get Your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit": https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/ Success is such a broad term. It means so many things to so many people. Yet, we all seem to know when we don't have it. What is it, really? Why is it so illusive? And is there ONE key principle that would help us achieve success in ALL our endeavors--personal, home, AN…
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EP 139: Parenting with Principles - A Simple Example
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Get Your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit": https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/ What began as a simple family planning session, turned first into complaining, then arguing, then ALMOST a mom lecture session with accompanying frustration and resentment. What saved us?! Principles! Luckily, after decades of learning and trying to live by the natural …
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EP 138: How Benjamin Franklin's DISASTROUS friendships almost ruined him--and what this can teach our TEENS
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Get your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit": https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/ Benjamin Franklin's teenage and young adult years were riddled with one stupid decision after another. Arrogant and headstrong, he was certain he had it all figured out. But, eventually stranded in London and surrounded by terrible friends, Franklin began to see that he…
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EP 137: Why were her books LOST? The Mission Driven Story of Bess Aldrich
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I can't believe I'd never heard of this author before now! She was as popular as Pearl S. Buck, Stephen Crane and Edith Wharton, at times even outselling them! Every one of her novels made it onto the bestsellers lists across the nation and received raving reviews from critics. YET, after 20+ years of hunting good books, I just recently learned of …
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EP 136: Watch Out! This is coming to a town near you...
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Get the "TRUTH SEEKERS STARTER KIT" for FREE: https://audreyrindlisbacher.com/ American’s are predominantly unaware of the strange program that’s rapidly growing in Canada. It’s legal, government funded and run euthanasia on a grander and grander scale each year. With forms of it already passed in 11 states, 8 of which have adopted a law within the…
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EP 135: What went wrong? The true stories of Lewis and Nietzsche...
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This presentation is one of dozens included in the Mission Driven Mom Academy Level 1: Love of God and Self. Learn More and Purchase the Mission Driven Mom Academy: https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/mission-driven-mom-academy These two men, with VERY similar backgrounds, life experiences, educations, and careers, began as atheists and ended up at…
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Get your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit": https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/ Have you heard any of the following statements lately: "I have to figure out what I believe." "I don't believe that." "I can't ask someone to act contrary to their beliefs." WHAT IF THEY WERE ALL WRONG? Join me in this podcast we explore what it means to "believe," why …
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EP 133: How about some PATRIOTISM this 4th of July!
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What were America's founders REALLY like?! Were they really misogynistic jerks who cared for no one but themselves? OR have we maybe gotten the story wrong? What if they were GOOD men and women, doing their best, striving to live the truth they had and make a better world for coming generations? What if modern history classes are DISTORTING the tru…
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Ep 132: How Values and Victimhood TRANSFORMED her Marriage!
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Get Your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit" here: https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/ In this brief interview, Carolyn shares how the principles of the MDM Academy transformed her life, her marriage, and her relationships. She discusses why the program appealed to her, the rich friendships she developed through the academy, and how principles are im…
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EP 131: Is Science Destroying Femininity?
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In the modern age of DISBELIEF, Andrew Klavan offers wisdom and insights on the 3 MODERN PROBLEMS of: Unbelief, Science, and Radical Politics. Join me, Lindsey, and Kim as we discuss his profound work The Truth and Beauty, looking especially at theme of FEMININITY and its connection to modern loss of faith. Check out other videos on book club tips …
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Ep 130: A Brief History of the Sexual Revolution and What It Means For Our Children
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Here's an image of the Spiral of Silence for reference with this podcast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_spiral_model.jpg Get your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit" here: https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/ The more I learned about the history of the sexual revolution, the more I asked myself the question: "WHY?!" I get that people want to …
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EP 129: Something you NEVER thought would help you love better!
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Get your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit": https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/ When God had to whittle down all His commandments to 10, it seems crazy that the Sabbath made it on the list. Scripture tells us He "rested" on the 7th day--but what did He actually do? What does that even mean? And if God is love, how do the Sabbath, and rest, and reve…
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Get your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit": https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/ When a woman sent in the question, "What can I do if my husband thinks that pornography isn't hurting him or me?" I knew my husband -- with a Marriage and Family Therapy degree, years of working with addicts, and himself a pornography addict--was the best one to answer!…
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EP 127: What Is Real? How Plato and Aristotle help us reach our potential
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Get your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit: https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/ In a world that is arguing about "what is real", going back to our roots and looking at what Plato, Aristotle and other early philosophers taught can be incredibly enlightening. Their perspective on the physical and the metaphysical and how they fit together, can help us…
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EP 126: How Can We Help Our Teens Take Responsibility For Themselves?
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Alli Deeble has been teaching The Mission Driven Teen Academy for 3 years. All 58 youth she has taught have grown in significant ways, learned life-changing principles, are meeting their needs better, are inspired to move toward life mission, and have a strong sense of who they really are! In this podcast, she shares her experiences about how the p…
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EP 125: How We Saved Our Marriage (and you can too)
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Having just celebrated our 30th anniversary, it seemed appropriate to talk about what is probably the single most important thing that kept us married--through addiction, loss, betrayal, financial and health challenges and more. If you listen carefully, and take to heart what I share here, your life will never be the same. REMEMBER: you have the po…
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EP 124: It's "Not Bad" - Morality In Our Everyday Lives
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In studying forgiveness as a moral action, I dug deeper into the idea of morals and morality itself. What I often call "natural law" can also be called the "natural moral law" so I wanted to better understand the moral component of the natural law. I had some huge insights -- things I'd never thought of before that make my own inner battles with my…
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EP 123: Is Sameness Another Word for Equality? Group Discussion of Emotional Coddling and Other Relevant Themes from The Giver
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February Book Club pick is The Giver! This novel is rich with themes that are incredibly relevant today: sameness vs equality safety vs freedom wisdom and suffering moral law vs civil law constrained vs unconstrained visions Join us as we discuss these and other themes that help us make sense of the cultural unraveling we are watching right before …
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EP 122: How Values Can Heal Our Nation (and You)
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What holds any organization together, whether it's a family, business, or nation? SHARE VALUES. And the nature of those values, how they're taught and promoted, and whether or not people are held accountable to them, is the fabric that makes individual lives and organizes work, or fall apart. That is precisely what is happening to our culture today…
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EP 121: Seeing "Your" Truth and "The" Truth
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Through ideologies like "wokeness," LGBTQ+, postmodernism and others, we are fed a constant diet of the "your truth, my truth" paradigm. Although there is some truth to the idea that you and I see things very differently, we don't have to choose between the concept of "your" truth and "the" truth--when we properly understand what they really mean, …
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EP 120: What Comes Before the Natural Law
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Awakened one morning with quotes in my mind, I spent the day researching and making connections until I saw the central problem we face--what comes before the natural law. If we want to present God's laws and principles as the solution to today's problems, we need to first show others that there actually is a problem to solve. With beginning insigh…
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EP 119: The Seeds of Feminism- The Impact of A Doll's House Discussed
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, first published in 1879 was, at one point, the most frequently performed play in the world and has continued to be performed regularly throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. In addition to its popularity with the public, many scholars list Ibsen right after Shakespeare as the greatest playwright in history. I…
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I'm sorry I haven't been more clear about what the truth is and how it can set you free! This is a RESET for 2024, and from now on I'll be bringing you all the insights from my study of truth and natural law as I write another book that will demonstrate HOW the truth can truly set you free! Get the "TRUTH SEEKERS Starter Kit" for FREE: https://audr…
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EP 117: Charles Dickens' "Ghostly IDEA" discussed!
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Join me, Lindsey and Kim for an enriching and inspiring discussion of my December Book Club pick A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens--you'll love it! For further discussion, and to access the principles list, study skills, and other tools, join my library: https://www.audreyrindlisbacher.com/store Get your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit": https:/…
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EP 116: How to Choose the BEST Books for Your Book Club (and You)
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With literally THOUSANDS of new books being published every day, how in the world can we choose things to read and discuss that are WORTHY of our time and life energy?! Here I outline 3 RULES for choosing readings that are enriching, insightful, and full of discussion points and true principles! Get your FREE "Truth Seekers Starter Kit": https://ww…
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EP 115: 3 Key Principles to Kickstart Your Personal Growth
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What do Benjamin Franklin, Louis L'Amour, and Mortimer Adler have in common?! Along with thousands of other great influencers throughout history, they saw the power of reading, writing, and discussing classics as the KEY personal development. This is something YOU can do right now to kickstart your own personal growth! Join My Book Club and discuss…
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EP 114: How to make sense of Woke, Trans, and other modern Ideologies - answers from Thomas Sowell
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It seems like things are changing so fast that our culture is becoming almost unrecognizable. Thomas Sowell in his book A Conflict of Visions, provides a framework for understanding the world that once you've learned, you WON'T be able to unsee it! The current conflict of visions in Western society is driving ideologies like wokeness, post-modernis…
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EP 113: Why Self-Help Doesn't Help and What To Do Instead
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For many years I thought I was the problem, and that was why EVERYTHING I tried didn’t seem to work! Then, through a series of experiences and deep study, I realized that I was NOT the problem (and neither are you), SELF-HELP is the problem! In this podcast I reveal WHY self-help is not helping you and show you how the TRUTH is what will truly set …
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The Quickest Shortcut to Principle Centered Living You’re Ever Going To Get!
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“Our culture is moving further and further away from principles and truth. What we really ultimately hope to give you, and to build and create, is a community that has the power to shift the culture. We do that by beginning with shifting the culture in our homes and raising principle-centered children. But we also do that by reaching out into our c…
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"I feel the sustaining presence of the Savior and a deep sense of calm." ~Sharidean Flint One year ago, my sister was healthy and happy —as a wife, mother, grandmother, sister, friend, neighbor, and community leader. If you were part of our community then you probably watched or listened to an interview I did with her about her childhood, motherhoo…
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“There is an exhilaration in knowing who you are.” ~Audrey Rindlisbacher The first time I learned about "The Hero's Journey" by Joseph Campbell, I was blown away. It was everywhere! The idea that there was a form for the way the best stories are told - across time and culture - spoke to how similar we really are as humans. But for me, it was much b…
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Principles of Government Part 2: Rights of Life, Liberty, Property, and Conscience
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“Whatever is at the center of a person's life forms the fabric of his conscience. The conscience must be educated from divine sources in order for it to be keen and sharp, responsive and sensitive to God. ” ~Stephen Covey The rights of life, liberty, and property seem pretty straight-forward and self-explanatory, but the right of conscience?! What …
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“MDM has quenched a thirst to really be consistent in applying principles. It has broken open the doors of empowerment, freedom, and joy by helping me apply principles daily.” ~Leanna Irving "Understanding principles fundamentally changes you." ~Lindsey Wright “Permanent change is hard but living principles is the road to permanent change.” ~Audrey…
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The Virtues Series Pt. 1: Introduction to the 3 Types of Virtues
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“Moral philosophy is the science of virtue and vice and therefore the true doctrine of the Laws of Nature is the true moral philosophy.” ~Thomas Hobbes After sharing a difficult situation we are facing with a friend, and coming to the conclusion that there's nothing more we can do but wait, one of us will often finish the conversation with, "Well..…
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Mission Driven Stories: Gene Stratton-Porter
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“What is the difference between my books and those of other writers, is that I prefer to describe and perpetuate the best I have known in life." ~Gene Stratton-Porter As a young girl growing up on a farm in Indiana, Gene had the idyllic life. The youngest of 12 children, Gene was given free-range of her large farm to fall in love with nature - her …
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Principles of Government Part 1: Natural Law, Rights, and Duties
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“It is the lack of knowledge of natural law and principles over the last century that has gotten us to where we are now.” ~Audrey Rindlisbacher In this time of great civil unrest, do you know the principles of government that can save us? Do you have a clear understanding of the natural laws and fundamental ideas that shaped the first American docu…
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“Telling myself the truth was my guiding light." ~Heidi Mathews At The Mission Driven Mom, we make a big deal about principles. We know that principles are timeless, absolute truths that can guide us through hard times, show us how to change for the better, and make our way in life a little bit smoother. We work hard to make the concepts of natural…
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At the end of a tough Covid-19 year, we have all struggled with things that feel out of our control. Societal issues like quarantines, riots, illness, contentious debates, and even fraud have caused even the best of us frustration and heartache. Often these were compounded by personal challenges such as job loss, struggling children, and lack of co…
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“I'm 100% certain that Becky is called to Africa. And I am called to her.” ~Tom Rogers Meet Becky Rogers, mother of 10, music major, and violin teacher. Although she used to live a typical American family life, through her vigilance in the 7 Laws of Life Mission, she prepared herself and eventually heard the call to become a passionate advocate for…
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By the time Audrey Rindlisbacher was 19 years old, her father and two close friends had passed away unexpectedly. Through these trials Audrey learned for herself that life is very fragile. She knew that we have to make the most of the day we are in, because we never know when it might be the last day for us or someone we love. "Many people live as …
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Mission Driven Stories: Jacques Lusseyran
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"That is what you had to do to live in the camp: be engaged, not live for yourself alone. The self-centered life has no place in the world of the deported. You must go beyond it. Lay hold on something outside yourself.”~Jacques Lusseyran Born to loving, devoted, faithful parents, Jacques Lusseyran had a very happy childhood. Even the accident that …
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“All you have to give is what you’ve been given to give.” ~Max LucadoYears ago a trusted mentor challenged Audrey when she was ready to give up her studies. With four small children and many demands on her time, Audrey felt it might be best to put off her online courses and focus more on her family. But this mentor knew how long and hard Audrey had…
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Mission Driven Moms: Marlene Peterson
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“If all you do is give your kids a desire to keep learning you have done your job.”~Marlene PetersonMeet Marlene Peterson, the founder of Libraries of Hope and finder of the Well-Educated Heart pattern for learning. She and her husband Brent have raised eight daughters and one son and are thoroughly enjoying the grand-parenting stage of their lives…
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“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one.” ~M. Scott PeckSo often in life we face problems that bring feelings of overwhelm, confusion, frustration or anger. What do we choose to do when we feel these uncomfortable emotio…
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Intro to Worldviews, Pt. 2: 10 Areas of Reference
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“Every worldview requires a healthy amount of faith to believe it, because no one has all the evidence yet.” ~Audrey RindlisbacherNow that you have been introduced to what worldviews are and why they matter (Intro to Worldviews, pt. 1), it's time to learn how to begin evaluating them. In this podcast Audrey shares 10 areas where all worldviews atte…
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Mission Driven Stories: William Wilberforce
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"William Wilberforce knew if he discovered a truth to his satisfaction he would have no choice but to embrace it and act upon it.” ~Eric MetaxasWilliam Wilberforce began life as the son of wealthy merchants. Attractive, charming, funny and sweet, he was the favorite of all who knew him. As a youth he experienced a short conversion and attempted to …
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"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” ~The Holy Bible, James 1:6-8When Audrey found herself struggling with deep self-doubts, she assumed that…
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“Leadership is a gift. You can’t buy it, you can’t sell it, you can’t trade it. You either have it or you don’t. It is the most valuable commodity on the planet, and it is the rarest commodity we have. But it’s not just any type of leadership, it’s leadership without ego. It’s servant-leadership.” ~Bob DavidsAs moms, we often practice principles of…
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What We Learned in the ‘Mothers of Vision’ Content
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“Where there is no vision, the people perish...” Proverbs 29:18, Holy BibleAs mentors for the upcoming 'Mothers of Vision' MDM Celebration event, Audrey, Tresta, and Julie discuss their insights and favorite takeaways. Listen as they share how the principles that will be taught are changing the way they think, feel and live! And if you haven't sign…
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“It always comes back to the family.” ~Gayle RuzickaAs a young girl, Gayle's parents forced her to go to church, even though they didn't attend themselves. This caused her to look inward--to forge her own relationship with God and determine the belief system that would guide her through life. She clung to Christianity, and its moral principles beca…
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