Episode 245 (Bonus): Re-Acknowledging the Elephant | A Conversation About Polygamy with The Faithful Feminists

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Every four years, D&C 132 comes around for study again. If you ask a Latter-day Saint woman what she keeps on her metaphorical faith "shelf," there's a good chance polygamy will be there. It's mostly ignored in contemporary church conversations and teachings, a murky doctrine wrapped in a historical wound that continues to fester, easier to ignore than to heal. Many friends and family members won't even share their true feelings about it with each other. But what are the consequences of our silence around polygamy? How long can we collectively carry this enormous weight we never allow ourselves to set down? Bonus Episode 245 is a rerun of Susan and Cynthia's original conversation about polygamy with Channing and Elise from The Faithful Feminists podcast, an honest exploration of where we've been, where we are, and where we might go next.

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0:00.0	Welcome to At Last She Said It, a podcast where women of faith come together to acknowledge that it's
0:07.3	complicated and support each other while we figure it out.
0:12.5	All right, Channing and Elise, I bet you know what's coming next. We're going to ask you,
0:17.1	what do you know? We would love to know what do you know today. Go ahead first,
0:21.8	Channing, if that's okay. Yeah, so today I know that mushrooms are magical. Oh, wow. Say more.
0:29.5	Say more about that. I've just been learning so much about them and learning about like just all of
0:36.9	the different fantastic ways that they show up in the world.
0:40.0	There's so many cool things about them.
0:41.9	Like, did you know that the roots of mushrooms can drill through rock?
0:46.5	Mushrooms have a symbiotic relationship with plants.
0:50.1	And this relationship between the mushroom and the plants is actually what gives most plants
0:56.4	its medicinal qualities.
0:58.5	Wow.
0:59.1	Really?
0:59.8	Yeah, it's fascinating.
1:01.0	And plants and trees in a forest talk to each other through the mushroom.
1:08.0	It's called the mycelium.
1:09.6	And so through this like root network of mushrooms,
1:12.2	trees and plants can talk and communicate to each other and kind of like give a health,
1:17.0	like a temperature check on the forest, like warn other trees and plants of like pests or infections.
1:23.6	And they can actually even share like resources and nutrients through the mycelium with other plants.
1:30.7	And so for me, I'm just like mushrooms are magical.
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