421: Why No Mixed-Gender Sunday School Presidencies? A Gender Equality Slippery-Slope Speculation

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Mental Health

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! In this follow up episode on recent LDS news that women are now allowed to serve in Sunday School presidencies, Val & Nathan pivot to the peculiar part of the announcement prohibiting no "mixed-gender" presidencies and share the outcome of their exploration of this odd move. Upon deeper reflection, the move seems less about worries about slippery slopes towards sexual iniquity and possibly more about preserving another kind of slippery slope--the one that...

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0:51.9	Hey, everybody.
0:52.7	Welcome to Latter Day Struggles.
0:53.9	This is your host, Valerie, and I have Nathan with me. Hi, Nathan. Hello. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie, and I have Nathan with me. Hi, Nathan.
0:57.0	Hello. Hey, so as promised, I wanted to come over here for a second run at this news that recently came over about the, no, it's not Relief Society, about ready to say Relief Society, about the Sunday School and how
1:12.0	women are brand new, able to be in presidencies of the Ward Relief Society. And a lot of people
1:19.0	reached out and asked if I would comment on this, because I think there's a lot of mixed feelings,
1:22.9	as usual. I think in some ways it's like, yeah, any, any news is good news in the realm of, you know,
1:29.3	women and any kind of participation or increased participation in an institutional
1:34.8	patriarchy.
1:35.5	And also, of course, there's a little bit of, you know, itchiness, discomfort, frustration,
1:42.9	disappointment, you name it. There's a lot of feelings here. So I did
1:47.2	make a response, comment. I did an Instagram live a few days ago. And as I was studying it,
1:53.2	it occurred to me that there were two topics here, not just one. The one topic is the idea of
1:58.4	reform itself and the nature of reform and what it possibly could mean. And so I'd invite
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