54. Finding Mother God - Carol Lynn Pearson

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🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this episode, we got to speak with Carol Lynn Pearson about her new book, "Finding Mother God: Poems to Heal the World."

Carol Lynn has been a powerful and well-known voice in the Latter-day Saint community for many years. She’s perhaps most well known for her memoir "Goodbye, I Love You," about her marriage to and care for her husband Gerald, a gay man who died of AIDS in 1984. Her full catalog of works is too impressive to list here, but one other highlight is that she wrote one of our very favorite primary songs: "I’ll Walk with You," which has recently been published as a children’s book.

Carol Lynn’s new book of Poetry, "Finding Mother God," is incredibly moving — Carol Lynn found a way to somehow simultaneously mourn and celebrate the way we interact with Heavenly Mother, both personally and in community. We found ourselves both laughing, crying, and everything in between as we read — and we can’t recommend the book highly enough.

Carol Lynn was kind enough to read several of her poems and discuss them with us — we were only able to get through a few of our long list of favorites, but we think you’ll find her words and insights inspiring, and hope you pick up the book to find your own favorites.

Thanks so much to Carol Lynn for coming on, and we hope you enjoy this episode.

Finding Mother God: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423656687

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0:51.5	near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.
0:54.0	Hi everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.
1:00.0	In this episode we got to speak with Carolin Pearson about her new book Finding Mother God poems to heal the world
1:06.3	Carolyn has been a powerful and well-known voice in the Latter-day Saint community for many years
1:10.8	She's perhaps most well known for her memoir, Goodbye I Love You,
1:14.0	about her marriage to and care for her husband Gerald, a gay man who died of AIDS in 1984.
1:19.1	Her full catalog of works is too impressive to list here, but one other highlight I want to mention is that she wrote one of our very favorite primary songs, I'll Walk with you, which has recently been published as a children's book.
1:30.0	Carolyn's new book of poetry, Finding Mother God, is incredibly moving.
1:33.7	Carolyn found a way to somehow simultaneously mourn and celebrate the way we interact with
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