177: Carol Lynn Pearson Pt. 5 - Celebrating the Divine Feminine, and Final Thoughts on Faith

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 August 2010

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Carol Lynn Pearson is one of the most successful Mormon authors, poets, and playwrights of all time. Her book"Goodbye, I Love You" about the death of her gay husband from AIDS took the world by storm in 1986. Her musical"My Turn on Earth" is one of the most successful Mormon musicals of all time. Carol Lynn has spent all her years since"Goodbye, I Love You" as an advocate for both women and gays within Mormonism.

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0:29.0	So in typical fashion, we've covered blacks, we've covered gays, and of course the group
0:39.8	that's always last to be covered, whether it's in civil rights or in Mormonism is women.
0:47.2	Oh, that's okay.
0:48.2	We don't need anything anyway.
0:51.2	Door mats.
0:52.2	What was it?
0:53.2	Oh, never mind.
0:54.2	I don't want to think about it.
0:56.0	You could do five hours on women.
0:59.3	Oh, I could do weeks.
1:01.3	Pick up that book right there.
1:03.3	Well, yeah.
1:04.3	See, I was born into women's issues and then I married into gay issues.
1:09.1	And these are step sisters, you know.
1:12.1	I mean, true sisters.
1:15.7	So, yes, much of my, well, all of my work has had a running theme of empowering women.
1:26.3	And here's a poem that I really, here's two poems that I really like.
1:35.5	No, I'll just share one of them.
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