Episode 113: Revisiting the Mother Tree — A Conversation with Kathryn Knight Sonntag

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In her book, The Mother Tree: Discovering the Love and Wisdom of Our Divine Mother, author Kathryn Knight Sonntag wrote, "Further exploration of the Mother is part of the unfolding Restoration in our hearts." Today many women are feeling led to explore the divine feminine more deeply, or for the first time, in an effort to erase the separation that has existed between Latter-day Saints and our Heavenly Mother. In Episode 113, Kathryn shares insights and ideas gleaned from her personal research and experiences. It's a conversation about creating wholeness and healing the mother wound in our theology.

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0:00.0	looking at the ancient languages and things that had been changed and the ways in which the sacred feminine had been
0:07.0	purposefully erased from scripture and references changed,
0:13.0	that the worship of this mother,
0:15.0	especially with the ancient Israelites,
0:17.0	was central.
0:18.0	It wasn't a pagan practice.
0:21.0	It wasn't just a Canaanite version of you know the truth quote unquote it was a very
0:28.4	mainstream she was a mainstream Israelite goddess.
0:36.0	Hi, I am Cynthia Wynward.
0:38.0	And I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:40.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:42.0	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:45.0	Today's title of our episode is The Mother Tree Part 2.
0:51.0	And our first part,
0:53.0	Mother Tree, part one, was with Catherine Knight-Santag,
0:57.0	and so that's who we're having back this time
0:59.0	to talk about that beautiful subject again.
1:02.0	So welcome, Catherine. Thank you so much. We're so glad to have
1:06.7	you back. Your beautiful book is sitting right here next to me called the mother
1:11.9	tree and so I know Susan and I have been talking for months,
1:16.4	actually Susan, how excited we are to have Catherine on towards the end of our season
1:22.4	to speak about your book. So Catherine, why don't you go ahead and
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