Episode 123: Reimagining Church

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

For some Latter-day Saints, our church services are feeling a little stale. Maybe even boring? If you got a seat on the Imagination Committee, what ideas would you bring for reimagining Sunday worship? How could we make the time we spend meeting together in our wards better? What would inspire and recharge you? What do you wish you might see, hear, sing, say, or do? Where’s your holy envy sitting on Sundays?

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0:00.0	Connecting our points of doctrine to other great thinking traditions in the world is a very specific way of building bridges to the world for our youth, for our members.
0:15.0	I mean, this is a way that it can happen and that it used to happen more in the church
0:19.6	than it does now because if you pull out an old manual from the 1950s, you're going to see something very
0:25.2	different.
0:27.2	You're going to see references to the great philosophers, writers, and thinkers of the world in those manuals.
0:33.7	So we just kind of drew a bit broader picture at that point.
0:37.7	Mm-hmm.
0:38.7	Hi, I am Cynthia Wynward. And I'm Susan Hinckley and this is at last she said it.
0:47.0	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:50.5	The title of today's episode is Reimagining Church.
0:56.0	Oh, I love this topic, Cynthia.
0:58.5	Me too.
0:59.0	I've been Reimagining Ways to Improve Church
1:01.0	for a long, long time.
1:03.0	I was going to say, yes, yeah.
1:07.3	Well, it's interesting because you and I have tossed that idea
1:10.8	back and forth about reimagining church or if I'm honest Susan you and I
1:16.0	I'm going to confess that you and I sometimes share text messages with each other about oh my gosh I'm so bored at church.
1:22.1	Yep.
1:23.0	Like I feel like you and I have made peace.
1:26.4	We've put in the work I think of being okay with church history and maybe setting good boundaries today for things that we wish were
1:35.0	different in the church today but we haven't settled or fixed the problem of
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