Episode 094: Everyone Back to Church...Maybe?

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The pandemic that interrupted attendance for all members forced an unprecedented change in our personal church habits and activity. It blurred the distinction between work, education, church, and family lives. Many saw the shift to "home-based, church-supported" as a prophetic precursor to this change, and leaned into the opportunity presented by it. For some normal attendance has now resumed, while others are choosing to reengage differently in church activity going forward. For this episode, Cynthia and Susan asked women how the pandemic had affected their personal faith journey and relationship with the Church. What changed? What didn't? And what opportunities for personal and institutional growth might we find by examining our individual and collective experience?

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0:00.0	It was astonishing to me as I talked to different friends during the pandemic.
0:06.0	How many expressed the thought that they didn't miss church at all?
0:10.0	Like people I would never have expected to feel that way and they and I certainly wouldn't have expected them to say it out loud if they did feel that way
0:17.4	They were not shy about telling me I don't miss it at all and for for me, this glorious ray of sunlight in a dark place suddenly, like,
0:26.4	ah! I told, it told me that there are many people who actually do seem to want something different from our worship.
0:37.0	Yes.
0:38.0	Hi I'm Cynthia Wynward and And I'm Susan Hinckley.
0:44.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:46.0	We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things.
0:49.0	And the title of today's episode is
0:52.0	Everyone Back to Church. Maybe? today's episode is everyone back to church maybe emphasis on the maybe I think
0:56.7	emphasis on the maybe I know for myself my attendance hasn't been as perfect since the pandemic as it was before the
1:04.6	pandemic I don't know about you. Yeah I think I oh yeah I think so and I think you and I
1:09.6	will get into why that might be right Right, a lot of reasons.
1:13.6	It's complicated, Cynthia.
1:15.0	It's always complicated.
1:16.4	I know.
1:17.1	When we were beginning season five,
1:19.4	we were trying to revamp our intro,
1:21.8	and we were, oh, let's cut out the part about complicated and yet we
1:25.3	realized women over and over and over would say to us it's complicated it's
1:29.4	complicated so it's kind of become our our tagline and today's episode is no different because when it comes to going back to church after a worldwide pandemic, it doesn't get more complicated than this.
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