Episode 140: Does That Scripture Mean What You Think it Means? | A Dance with the Ten Virgins

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Every church goer has probably heard more lessons about the wise and foolish virgins than they can count. Why do Latter-day Saints love to talk about this parable so much? And why do we seem to be so attached to one interpretation of it? In Episode 140, Susan and Cynthia try to shake up the same old conversation about this story—and the women in it—by asking a few new questions, and imagining new answers.

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0:00.0	And then Jesus said, why did you doubt? And in this story I can imagine the bridegroom saying to the five who left, why did you listen to them?
0:12.0	You should have just come to meet me.
0:15.0	Wow. Just like Jesus reaches out and catches Peter's hand in that story when he
0:21.0	starts to sink, I think that the bridegroom would have said here
0:24.8	I'll hold my light where you can see it oh my gosh that's a fantastic parallel
0:29.0	Susan when some of their lamps started to go out why Why isn't that what he would have,
0:33.8	why would there not have been enough collective light
0:36.8	in the party, either his or the people who were with him
0:40.6	to guide the other women into the wedding feast.
0:45.0	Hi, I'm Cynthia Wynnward.
0:50.0	And I'm Susan Hinckly.
0:52.0	And this is at last she said it. We are women of faith discussing complicated
0:56.2	things and the title of today's episode is Does that scripture mean what you
1:01.3	think it means?
1:03.4	I'm asking you, go ahead Susan.
1:06.6	Who am I to know what it means?
1:08.0	I don't know anything.
1:10.0	I don't know anything either, but that's what we're going to talk about today.
1:12.7	We're going to talk about how we don't necessarily have to know what everything means.
1:16.1	We can read things and think about what it might mean.
1:19.8	Sure, keyword might.
1:21.6	Exactly. might.
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