Episode 108: What About Sealings?

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Disparity in the Church's sealing policies for men and women is something many members never think about until their life experience reveals it in some way. The truth is, a variety of complex real-life scenarios may change the idea of sealing from a joyful eternal prospect to a painful eternal sentence for some Latter-day Saint women. If you are widowed, divorced, remarried, or single, your sealing options as a woman are limited, and you have little to no power in the process of determining what's right for you. In this episode, ALSSI listeners share their personal experiences with the Church's sealing policies, and the complex emotions that arise as a result of living within these limitations.

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0:00.0	You need a church that you need a church that yeah problems for living people
0:06.0	yes we care more for the dead sometimes than we do about the living but it's the living
0:12.0	women who are suffering now and they don't deserve
0:16.8	to have to go through life feeling less than.
0:27.0	Hi, I am Cynthia Wynward, and I'm Susan Hinckley. And this is at last she said it.
0:29.0	We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things.
0:32.0	Today's title of our episode is faith discussing complicated things.
0:32.6	Today's title of our episode is,
0:35.0	what about ceilings?
0:37.5	Whoa, what about ceilings?
0:40.2	Well, we have a lot to say about these ceilings,
0:42.3	so that's why we're showing up today.
0:44.5	Yeah, well more importantly our listeners have a lot to say because you don't have, we don't have some of the
0:50.3	crazy experiences around ceilings that some people do.
0:55.0	So we thought it was a good time to call on women who do have messier situations and experiences
1:00.1	in their own lives or in their families that have caused them to have to engage in a wrestle.
1:06.8	Yeah, you and I not so much in our personal lives, but of course you and I have family members and
1:11.9	siblings and dear friends who have engaged in that wrestle
1:16.8	and the messiness surrounding their own ceilings so you know but I'm thinking that most people don't really think about the disparity in our
1:27.5	ceiling policies for men and women until their personal life bumps up
1:31.8	against it some way or someone that they care about.
1:34.5	Yeah. There's no reason that you spend your life reading the handbook and saying,
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