Episode 260: Big Ideas | Letting Go

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

"The spiritualities of all great world religions teach us letting go, or how to step aside," writes Richard Rohr. Letting go is an intentional process. We may let go of our emotional attachments, limiting beliefs, or past events. We may give up control, the need to be successful, or the need to be right. It's an ongoing process of surrendering to what is, and adjusting accordingly. In Episode 260, Susan and Cynthia take on this big idea, a central theme in spiritual practice.

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0:00.0	Who the heckety heck would ever use success in a religious context except like prosperity,
0:08.8	gospel type American Christians? I don't know. I just think that more and more lately I've been
0:16.6	asking myself how a religion of a God who is crucified, like a God who loses, how we morphed
0:24.7	into a gospel of success and winning.
0:27.2	Right.
0:27.5	That's the question I was asking early.
0:29.0	What happened between the gospel of apathia and where we are today?
0:34.0	I'm not totally sure how.
0:36.6	I'm not sure when or how that happened. It was probably
0:40.2	a series of a thousand small adaptations. Over a thousand years. Over a thousand years. Yeah,
0:46.9	exactly. Exactly. Hello, I'm Cynthia Winward.
0:54.7	And I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:56.4	And this is at last she said it.
0:58.3	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
1:01.2	And the title of today's episode is Big Ideas, Letting Go.
1:09.4	The biggest of all my big ideas.
1:12.8	That's why I'm laughing.
1:15.5	Right before you hit start on this recording, you said to me, you know, we're talking
1:20.3	about all the things that we're interested in.
1:21.9	Is anyone else going to be interested in any of this?
1:23.8	And I said, I don't care.
1:25.4	I don't know.
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