Kate Holbrook - Suffering and the Goodness of God

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Why do bad things happen to good people? Why does God allow suffering when he has all power? Francine Bennion explored these topics in her groundbreaking discourse in March 1986. Join hosts Shalyn Back and Katie Perez along with special guest Kate Holbrook, PhD as they explore how gaining an understanding of our theology can help make sense of suffering. Full discourse https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/at-the-pulpit/part-4/chapter-43 “What I’m passionate about,” said Francine Russell Bennion (b. 1935), “is human existence, and the relationships between people and God, and what works and what doesn’t.” In an interview, Bennion explained that when she taught a Relief Society or Gospel Doctrine lesson she never wanted to brush off reality and speak only of ideals. Instead, she tried to present fresh, useful, and reality-affirming perspectives that would lift and enhance human relationships.

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0:00.0	Have you ever sat through a release society lesson? Heard an inspirational story about a woman who was
0:05.5	born decades or even centuries before you, then wondered how in the world could her life
0:11.0	possibly be relevant to yours? Well, that's what this podcast is all about. You'll hear parts of some
0:17.0	prominent talks given by women throughout the history of the church. Hopefully, along the way, you'll be able to see how their experiences can apply to you.
0:25.9	Welcome to the Latter-day St. Women Podcast.
0:28.4	My name is Shailen Back, and I'm your host.
0:30.7	And today we have some very special guests.
0:33.0	We're here with Dr. Kate Holbrook, who's the manager of women's history in the church history department,
0:38.7	and Katie Perez. Hi, you two. Thank you for joining us. Hi. Thanks for inviting us.
0:43.8	Of course. These talks and addresses that we'll be discussing are from a book called At the Pulpit,
0:50.1	and it is a compilation of 185 years of discourses by Latter-day Saint-Women.
0:56.1	And Kate has been very instrumental in that.
0:59.2	And so, Kate, we would actually love for you to introduce the book a little bit before we
1:03.1	get started on our discussion.
1:04.7	Great.
1:05.4	Well, I was working with the woman who was retiring, whom I replaced, Dilma Vardur.
1:10.6	We overlapped for a little bit and we were
1:12.1	having a conversation and I remember leaving that conversation thinking, we need to have a
1:17.3	women's journal of discourses. And that conversation was then where that seed was born for the book
1:22.9	that became at the pulpit. It's the distillation of a lot of wisdom and scriptural analysis and good theological
1:29.9	thinking from women throughout the history of the church. So the first discourse in the book was given
1:34.9	in 1835 and the last one at a recent BYU women's conference. That's amazing. I think it's so
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