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Nancy Huddleston Packer

Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment

Autumn/ November 1968

Conversion and After

By Nancy Huddleston Packer

My father’s favorite joke symbolized our family’s attitude toward religion. A little boy told his Sunday School teacher that another little boy had said there wasn’t a God. When the […]

Fiction

Winter 1961

Night Guard

By Nancy Huddleston Packer

“‘Man’s age-old melancholy, the coming of autumn,'” said Mr. Fisher, looking around the table at his daughter Charlotte and her two children. “That’s Whitman, I think.” He knew he had […]