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At Last She Said It

Episode 150: Why We Stay

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5900 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Season 7 begins with a series of conversations exploring reasons some women continue to find spiritual value participating in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and some do not. Every individual has her own faith story, and in Episode 150, Cynthia and Susan ask themselves and each other the question listeners continue to ask more than any other: Why do you stay?

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0:00.0

Someone can believe in an organized religion and still have qualms about certain aspects of it.

0:10.0

There's a nuance to everything. And I just think, well gosh that just kind of sums it up right there.

0:16.6

To have people outside of our faith, part of other faith traditions say, you don't have to believe everything.

0:22.0

Whoever said you had to? And and I thought well that's me like I'm not the only religious person who holds tensions

0:27.8

Right I don't have to leave because I don't like the canned peas on the buffet. I fill my plate with

0:34.9

what I want and I'm not picking up the canned peas anymore. It's okay. I gave myself that

0:39.7

permission. Hi, I'm Susan Hinckley.

0:45.0

And I'm Cynthia Wynworth.

0:50.0

And this is at last she said it.

0:52.0

We are women of faith discussing complicated things.

0:55.0

And the title of today's episode is, why we stay.

0:59.0

We're going right there, Cynthia. We're going right there Cynthia.

1:03.0

We're going right there, even though I feel like we kind of answer that question a lot.

1:08.0

I feel like we answer that question a lot too, but what happens?

1:12.0

Consistently women write to us and say, could you please tell me why it is that you stay?

1:18.2

I think people are really confused by Latter-day Saint women who are willing to point out issues, you know, openly discuss things

1:28.0

they want or need to see happen and ask for changes who are also interested in remaining engaged.

1:38.6

That's confusing to people.

1:40.1

It is confusing to people.

1:41.3

I respect that.

1:42.3

Yeah, same. I get that as well. But before we jump into all that,

1:46.6

welcome back, Susan. We're back friend. We're back for season seven.

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