Episode 120: Not Of the World? Not So Fast!

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Latter-day Saints talk a lot about the wicked world: how it’s getting more wicked, how it’s a sign of the last days, how we’re supposed to be in but not of it, how we should protect our families and fortify our homes against it. But what do we mean when we talk disparagingly about it? What are we gaining collectively from embracing a distrust of, or desire to disengage from, the world? And could there be unintended consequences from consistently highlighting a fearful view?

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0:00.0	And it's part of the human experience to finger point.
0:05.0	Like we...
0:06.0	Then and now, maybe that's part of it is we just like finger pointing and saying,
0:10.0	they are wicked.
0:12.0	They are immoral. They they are greedy they are jealous
0:15.4	instead of just saying boy it's sure hard being a human in this world in every
0:20.0	time yeah yeah and every time. Hi, I'm Susan Hinckley.
0:27.0	And I'm Cynthia Wynward.
0:31.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:33.8	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:37.3	And the title of today's episode is,
0:40.1	Not of the world?
0:41.6	Not so fast. I like it too because I am I don't know I have a lot of thoughts about this whole being in the world not of the world thing that we hear so
0:54.2	much about at church so I'm pretty excited to break this down actually I am too yeah
0:59.1	and it's good to be back in front of the mic. Yeah, we're season six, Susan? What?
1:06.0	season six. How have we not said everything out loud at last by now? How is it there still
1:10.6	more to say? We'll find out. I will find out how much more there is to say but I have a
1:15.1	feeling that I've still got a few thoughts anyway. Yeah, well it's funny because I
1:19.6	feel like we already have quite the list for season six and we do have already
1:23.9	filled our 20 episodes so I think it's safe to say there will be a season 7 if we've
1:28.8	already filled season six with all our crazy ideas so hopefully that's good news it feels like good news to me
1:37.2	all right Susan one of the things you and I have talked about that we want to add on
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