| Notes |
n 1995 and again in 1997, when Hill was just a boy, heavy rains brought devastating January flooding to Sacramento, near his northern California home. His family was a civic-minded Mormon crew, committed to community service, so it was no surprise that they were drawn to the flooded areas where people had gathered to help.
What did surprise Hill was that that turned out to be the only thing most people did — gather.
Hill said his father’s purpose was to show his children the breadth of human cultures and the common humanity that binds them all. To deepen and enrich their Mormon faith, he’d have the family spend evenings with African visitors and Vietnamese refugees, view the protests of those he called “oppressed people,” and visit other religions’ sites of worship. |