35. The Priesthood Power of Women - Barbara Morgan Gardner

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🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Barbara Morgan Gardner, associate professor of church history and doctrine at BYU, has written a powerful and insightful book called The Priesthood Power of Women, published by Deseret Book. We highly recommend it as a stocking stuffer for the women (and men) in your life.

In the book, Dr. Gardner points out how our lack of understanding of Priesthood has limited its power in our lives.

She carefully lays out the difference between what she calls the “eternal familial priesthood” in which women and men are full partners, and the more temporary “hierarchical priesthood” concerned with church administration. She argues that our tendency to focus on the latter when talking about priesthood has been the cause of some confusion and has kept women from experiencing and realizing their own priesthood power and authority.

She points out how top church leaders have moved to clarify this in recent years, and have invited women to begin claiming their spiritual inheritance as priestesses of God.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Before we get started I just wanted to tell you about a new book from
0:04.4	Faith Matters Publishing. It's called Restoration by Patrick Mason. When we started the
0:08.8	Faith Matters Publishing project one of our goals was to explore what
0:11.9	restoration really means as the church moves into its third century
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0:24.4	church it's our mission to truly lead out in bringing wholeness and healing to the
0:28.2	marginalized and the vulnerable. This book absolutely lit a fire for me and it has
0:32.2	totally changed the way I view my own engagement with the church and with the world.
0:36.0	I really can't recommend this book strongly enough.
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0:48.3	Books. Okay that's it on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the
0:51.5	near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.
0:54.0	Welcome to the Faith Matters podcast.
0:58.0	This is Aubrey Chavez.
0:59.0	This episode is an audio recording of a private gathering sponsored by the Faith Matters Foundation
1:03.5	to talk about Barbara Morgan Gardner's wonderful and highly influential new book, The Priested
1:07.9	Power of Women, published by Desert Book. In this conversation, Barbara joins me,
1:12.3	Lindsay Broadbent, and Bill Turnbull from Faith Matters. We hope you enjoyed this episode.
1:17.0	All right tonight our guest is Barbara Morgan Gardner and she is the author of the Priest of Power of Women.
1:24.0	She is, correct me if I miss any of this,
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