I feel like that's where we're where we were at in the early early church meaning like you know

Catholicism you know hundreds of thousands actually of years ago is that there was a choice

to be made and you could see that like one option

would reaffirm women and the other one would denigrate us and everything would fall apart and nothing would

ever be the same again and I feel like that's the door that was chosen.

Hi I'm Susan Hinckley.

And I am Cynthia Wynward.

And this is at last she said it.

We're Women of Faith discussing complicated things.

And the title of today's episode is Christ chose women.

So let's talk about some of the women, Cynthia.

Let's talk about them.

Lots of women.

I hope we get to all of them. We have extensive notes.

As always. But I want to get to all of them because women are so often cut out of

scriptural texts that when we do have them we got to talk about them.

Right. The way, well we've been talking about this episode about planning this

episode for a couple of months, but what kind of solidified it was recently, I woke up, I'm eating my bowl of oatmeal, I'm reading the newspaper, I'm reading the Salt Lake Tribune and there's an article about Elder Bennar speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

And of course he was asked by they had a little Q&A at the end and the reporters of course are

always going to ask about women in the church as they should as they should they should. Right. the

the reporter asked will you ever have a female profit

now first I just want to pause and say I love that she aimed really high like you and I you and I

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