Episode 091: What Women Don't Get In Our Church

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

"If history shows that patriarchy is bad for women, and data shows that girls and women fare better when they can see themselves at every level of leadership in our churches, schools, and societies…why do LDS women and men continue to cling to old ideas that deny history and data?" On this episode, Cynthis poses this question and others in a discussion detailing the list of possible opportunities for service and representation from which women are excluded in our church.

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0:00.0	I see women double down again and again on the status quo in this church and I think it's because
0:09.2	many women, myself included, have sacrificed a lot of things in our decision-making process that we've
0:15.8	built our lives with, right?
0:17.7	I might have done some things differently.
0:20.1	Hi, I'm Susan Hinckley.
0:25.0	And I'm Cynthia Wynward.
0:27.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:29.0	We're women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:32.0	The title of our episode today is What Women Don't
0:35.6	Get in Our Church. Sorry about that title Susan. It's a good title, Cynthia.
0:45.0	It's a great title, and even better is the fact that today we're going to have the pleasure
0:50.0	of kicking off this episode by listening to Cynthia to And so buckle up kids this is really really good stuff.
1:05.8	So this essay I wrote I wrote it on our break.
1:09.1	It was actually kind of half written actually I wrote it a couple years ago. I thought maybe I would you know
1:14.5	post it on one of the blogger knackle sites or something and then I just kind of
1:19.3	sat on it for a while and resurrected it during our break. So I wrote it, I wasn't sure necessarily
1:26.4	what to do it, and I sent it to you and you were like, oh, well let's just record this as an
1:30.6	episode because you had plenty that you wanted to say to it so I'll go
1:35.5	ahead and read it and we'll come back in a second. Perfect. What women don't
1:41.2	get in our church?
1:43.0	As I sat in a restaurant having dinner with a friend,
1:46.0	I lamented to her how I wish women could have more leadership opportunities in the church.
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