Lisa Olsen Tait - Today's Religious Crisis

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It can often feel as though religious rights and values are under attack in today’s world. You may be surprised that this view was shared by Elsie Talmage Brandley in 1934. Join hosts Shalyn Back and Katie Perez along with special guest Lisa Olsen Tait, PhD as they discuss how Sister Brandley’s insights can help us today. Full Discourse https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/at-the-pulpit/part-3/chapter-32 Sister Brandley’s service on the YLMIA general board spanned eleven years during the presidencies of Mattie Horne Tingey and Ruth May Fox. She joined the board in 1924 and, in addition to working on the magazines, helped to write manuals, plays, songs, programs, and other material. She was also a popular public speaker. E. E. Ericksen, with whom she collaborated on MIA committees, said that her idea of saving souls was to help all of their abilities—cultural, moral, and spiritual. “The human personality was sacred to her, and its development the great spiritual objective,” he said. She also championed young people in asking and finding answers to their own questions. “You are the ones whose responsibility it is to insure the faith and unwavering trust in the gospel which is your heritage,” she wrote.

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0:00.0	Have you ever sat through a Relief Society lesson?
0:04.3	Heard an inspirational story about a woman who was born decades or even centuries before you,
0:09.5	then wondered how in the world could her life possibly be relevant to yours?
0:14.3	Well, that's what this podcast is all about.
0:17.1	You'll hear parts of some prominent talks given by women throughout the history of the church.
0:21.3	Hopefully, along the way, you'll be able to see how their experiences can apply to you.
0:27.0	Welcome to the Latter-day St. Women Podcast.
0:29.4	I'm your host, Shailen Back, and today we have two special guests with us.
0:33.3	First is Lisa Tate, who's a historian, writer, and specialist in women's history.
0:38.3	Thanks for joining us, Lisa.
0:39.4	Thank you.
0:40.3	And we also have Katie Perez, who has studied this discourse and is ready to share her thoughts and perspectives about it.
0:47.7	So we're so glad to have you guys.
0:49.3	The discourse that we're talking about today, it's from the book at the pulpit, which is a compilation
0:55.2	of talks and addresses given by Latter-day St. Women throughout the history of the restoration.
1:01.1	And today's is the religious crisis of today. First of all, before we talk about this discourse,
1:05.6	we just want to know a little bit more about Elsie Talmadge Branley. Lisa, can you provide a
1:09.7	little bit more about her story for us?
1:12.0	She's one of my favorite people that I have come to know through the work that I've done on the
1:17.4	history of the young women. You may recognize the middle name, Talmage, her maiden name.
1:22.2	She was the daughter of Elder James E. Talmage and his wife, May. She was born in 1896, and she was just a brilliant,
1:32.3	brilliant person. She had a real gift with language and with writing, and she graduated with a degree from
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