Episode 2: Women and Priesthood (Barbara Morgan Gardner)
Y Religion
BYU Religious Education
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Questions about Latter-day Saint women and priesthood have been swirling for years. In this episode, Dr. Barbara Morgan Gardner shares her research that provides insights into why Latter-day Saint women have priesthood, and why understanding differences between ecclesiastical, familial, and covenantal priesthood can help us grasp the divine power and authority available to us all.
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| 0:00.0 | In the last number of years, Latter-day Saints have asked fundamental questions about women's |
| 0:09.9 | connection to priested power. Church leaders have given landmark talks on the subject, such as |
| 0:16.2 | Dallin H. Oaks, Gene B. Bingham, M. Russell Ballard, Linda Burton, and recently President |
| 0:21.7 | Russell M. Nelson, who pled with the sisters of the church. |
| 0:25.8 | How I yearn for you to understand that the restoration of the priesthood is just as relevant |
| 0:31.1 | to you as a woman as it is to any man. |
| 0:36.2 | Something is stirring in the collective consciousness of the church |
| 0:40.3 | related to women and priesthood. |
| 0:42.3 | But questions yet remain. |
| 0:45.3 | Professor Barbara Morgan Gardner is seeking to address some of them. |
| 0:49.3 | There were so many questions and a lot of frustration about some of the topics and women's issues again. |
| 0:54.6 | And I knew, as we all do, that as President Packer is taught over and over again, true |
| 0:59.8 | doctrine understood, changes attitude and behavior. |
| 1:01.9 | And I recognize if there is confusion and people are upset, there's probably a doctrinal |
| 1:05.9 | issue that we're not understanding. |
| 1:08.0 | In this episode, Dr. Gardner explores some of the truths we can all better understand |
| 1:12.6 | regarding women and priested through her recent book, The Priested Power of Women in the |
| 1:18.6 | Temple, Church, and Family. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm your host, Professor Anthony Sweat, and this is why religion. |
| 1:34.2 | Each year, religion professors at Brigham Young University produce hundreds of publications on subjects related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 1:39.6 | This podcast brings this research into one place to enlighten the everyday seeker of truth. |
| 1:45.0 | Seek learning, even by study and also by faith. |
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