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March 01, 2010

Read it here: Quiche, Haiti and Suffering

I brought a quiche today to a friend who is suffering.

A few years ago, I would have balked at the value of such an obvious display of charity. An act like that smells so much more of the pity sort of charity than the love sort, and who wants to be pitied? Plus, I would have been disenchanted by the thought of looking like one of those posed church pictures where one white suburban woman stands smiling on the doorstep of another white suburban woman's home holding out something delicious in a casserole dish. Read more...

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I love this!

Posted by: Andrea Holley | March 14, 2010 at 09:31 PM

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neylan

Neylan McBaine grew up a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) in New York City and attended Yale University. She has been published in Newsweek, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Segullah, Meridian Magazine and BustedHalo.com. She is the author of a collection of personal essays — How to Be a Twenty-First Century Pioneer Woman (2008) — and writes regular columns for Patheos.com, a premier religious information portal, and PowerofMoms.com.
Neylan is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Mormon Women Project, a continuously expanding library of interviews with LDS women found at www.mormonwomen.com. She is also a creative director at Bonneville Communications, responsible for the female portraits in the national media campaign found at Mormon.org.
She lives with her husband and three young daughters.