Hi, Latter Day struggles, friends and fans.

We know that navigating a faith crisis can feel overwhelming, especially when it impacts our closest relationships, our parents, our partners, and our kids.

That's why Valerie has created two online self-paced classes to help.

The first is a couple's guide to faith crisis and expansion.

This class is here for a partner

or couple who want to navigate faith shifts with mutual respect and deeper connection. Next is

a family's guide to mixed faith parenting. This class offers tools to help parents develop

greater harmony and understanding when belief differences arise within our families. Both classes are

packed with helpful tools and perspectives that can

give you hope and a way forward. So if you're looking for a little guidance on this,

visit laddarday struggles.com to learn more Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie. I am pleased to be with you here today. I am by myself and excited to talk to you a little bit about gender politics. The reason why I chose to address this topic is because

there has been a bit of a buzz in the last couple of weeks about a recent incident that happened

in the San Francisco Bay area where I guess what had been going on for the last many years

up and down that region was that there were some presiding women,

probably stake leaders, that were invited to sit on the stand with the priesthood,

the male leaders. And evidently, some area authority 70s came in and asked for that

practice to be discontinued, and it caused a little bit of a stir.

And I wanted to address this topic for a variety of reasons. The first reason is because

recently on the Latter Day Struggles podcast, we have been addressing issues of institutionalized

patriarchy and the history of this very topic with

my good friend and colleague Maxine Hanks. And so it felt like a fortuitous opportunity for me to

address this from the perspective, from my psychological viewpoint, because I know a lot of you have given me a lot

...