MIConversations #3—Kate Holbrook with Terryl Givens, “Extraordinary Women in Mormon History”

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Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Maxwell Institute Conversations are special videocast episodes of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, hosted by Terryl Givens and created in collaboration with Faith Matters Foundation.

In this episode Terryl Givens sits down with Kate Holbrook to talk about extraordinary women in Latter-day Saint history.

About the Guest

Kate Holbrook is Managing Historian of Women’s History at the LDS Church History Department and co-editor of At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women and the award-winning The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. She also co-edited Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives and Global Values 101: A Short Course. For her dissertation work on religion and food, she received the first Eccles Fellowship in Mormon Studies at the University of Utah. Her current projects include a history of the LDS young women organization and a monograph on LDS foodways.

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0:00.0	To those acquainted with her, Kate Holbrook is the embodiment of gentle grace, courage and exceptional intellect.
0:05.8	As managing historian for women's history for the LDS Church, she recently co-edited an extraordinary volume titled At the Pulpit,
0:13.3	185 years of discourses Society and at the pulpit,
0:32.6	I've been a little surprised at how meaningful it's been to women of my mother's generation.
0:41.3	You know, they'd never pick up a volume of the Joseph Smith papers or some other great church history book.
0:48.3	But this, they'll stay up past midnight reading so hungry for it, so hungry to hear about the experiences that feel more
0:55.8	familiar and more relatable to them. Kate Holbrook is a well-published author, popular speaker,
1:02.5	and culinary artist. Recently, she sat down with Terrell Givens in the studios of Faith Matters
1:07.6	Foundation to talk about her life and the lives of some remarkable Mormon women.
1:17.7	Hello and welcome to another installment of Conversations with Terrell Given, sponsored by the Faith Matters Foundation.
1:24.6	This is a podcast series devoted to exploring the experience of lived Mormonism as a catalyst to the abundant life and to the public good.
1:33.5	And my guest today is Kate Holbrook, and we're delighted to have you with us for this next hour.
1:39.4	Thank you for coming, Kate.
1:40.2	So glad to be here.
1:41.4	I'd like to start off by asking a question that may strike some people as rather morbid,
1:46.5	but it seems to me the best way to get to the heart of who you are or how you may be remembered.
1:52.8	And that is if you were to overhear your obituary read in the following days, what points would probably be made? What are the salient features
2:04.4	of your life as they'd be remembered up to this point? I've written some books in Mormon
2:11.2	women's history that I feel have been good contributions there. I think I'll be remembered
2:17.0	generally through favorite recipes that have
2:20.9	come from me. I've decided that's a maybe in some ways richer and a more lasting, visceral
2:29.5	experience that people will have of my having been on this earth. Oh, wonderful, wonderful. Can you think of anything that you would like to be remembered and
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