Episode 068: To Ordain or Not To Ordain? That Isn't the Only Question.

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps nothing has a greater impact on a woman's experience in our church organization than the fact that she does not and can not hold the Priesthood. Do Latter-day Saint women need ordination? Do they want it? While the answers to these questions may not be clear, what is clear is that many women feel little space to discuss their true feelings about the nebulous messaging we receive around power and authority, and our inability to hold and access Priesthood directly. In the Season 4 opener, Cynthia and Susan take a deep breath and wrestle the question of women's ordination.

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0:00.0	Welcome to At Last She Said It, a podcast where women of faith come together to
0:06.9	acknowledge that it's complicated and support each other while we figure it out. If that's what you saw modeled your entire life, if you only ever saw men in leadership roles in higher social status, you know, whatever we're going to call it,
0:27.0	then how does that not affect us as adult women?
0:30.0	How that has to have colored our perception of what a clergy person should be.
0:36.0	Absolutely.
0:38.0	And in our tradition that's male.
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to season four of at last she said it.
0:47.0	I'm your host Susan Hinckly and I'm here with my co-host Cynthia Wynward.
0:51.0	Hi Cynthia welcome back. Hello Susan thanks for coming back on
0:56.1	this journey with me today. It's exciting to be here when we started this we didn't
1:00.0	know how long we'd want to go. We didn't know when we'd run out of things to say, but it
1:04.7	feels like we're kind of just getting started.
1:07.1	It kind of feels that way and I sometimes feel like our subjects grow exponentially, actually. The list is getting longer.
1:14.0	Exactly. Things to talk about.
1:16.0	Exactly. I'm not sure what that means. We're not solving anything obviously if we keep
1:19.9	thinking of more things to say. And I'm excited to have a growing community coming along with us
1:25.1	on this journey.
1:25.8	So welcome back everyone.
1:27.6	We're absolutely delighted that you're here.
1:31.0	Today, we decided to take on a big topic to kick off a new season.
1:37.0	So the title of today's episode is To Ordain or not to ordain.
1:43.8	And that isn't the only question.
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