Ryan Saltzgiver | Women of Faith: Stories from Global Histories

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Latter-day Saint women around the world exercise faith to overcome the unique challenges of being members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in their homelands. In this episode, we discuss an exciting Church History project called Global Histories, which seeks to share the inspiring story of how the message of the Restoration has been embraced and the Church established around the globe. Ryan Saltzgiver, a historian and writer with the Church History Department, shares stories of pioneering women in various countries and their key contributions to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through their faith and service. Explore the Global Histories project. https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/landing/global-histories

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:10.0	You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women and today, men of faith.
0:16.0	I'm Carly Gehman.
0:18.0	And I'm Shailen Back. We're your co-hosts.
0:20.0	On today's episode, we're very excited to share a few stories of remarkable women of faith
0:24.8	and courage who were pioneering members of the church around the world.
0:28.4	And to share these stories and the contribution of these women, we have Ryan's Salskiver with
0:32.7	us today. Thanks for being here, Ryan.
0:34.6	Thank you for having me.
0:35.8	We're so glad that you're here. Ryan is a historian and writer with the Church History Department, and he writes on the
0:42.3	archaeology of Latter-day Saint communities and the globalization of the church.
0:46.3	And for the past five years, he has led the Global History's Project, which will be talking more about today,
0:52.3	which publishes brief histories of the places where
0:54.7	church members live, worship, and serve. Very cool. So, Ryan, will you just introduce the Global
1:01.2	Histories Project to our listeners? And just tell us a little bit about what was the vision for
1:06.3	global histories and then what's the status of it right now? Yeah, absolutely. So a few years ago, we actually
1:11.8	started trying to compile as much as we could about the history of the church by place. So we would
1:17.4	go to each country and we'd compile it. We'd had a massive team of missionaries that put those
1:23.6	together. The problem was that they ended up being about 100 pages, and that is not
1:28.1	very easily published. The whole catalog. Yeah, yeah. And it really, it was just like everything
1:33.3	that we had from that place, all the oral histories, the unit histories, everything that we had,
1:38.4	which isn't very readable. And so we decided that what we needed to do is we needed to condense
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