Episode 169: Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Lisa Torcasso Downing

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

“My religious life is beyond the confines of my ward or stake,” says Lisa Torcasso Downing, a Latter-day Saint woman for whom using her voice is an integral part of her faith life. She describes her long-running blog, Life Outside the Book of Mormon Belt: "That's where I’ve been saying it!” In Episode 169, she joins Susan and Cynthia for a rich conversation about everything from her unique conversion story to some of the foundational ideas that shaped her Mormonism to the ups and downs of learning to advocate.

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0:00.0	It's like people always use the the phrase I struggle you know I struggle with
0:07.7	church history I struggle with polygamy I struggle with LGBT Q issues I struggle I struggle I don't
0:15.0	I struggle I don't struggle I examine it I reflect on it I pray about it I come to a
0:20.7	conclusion that I feel is divinely oriented in the right things, but I think the
0:26.6	church is the one that's struggling. The church is what is where the struggling is going on.
0:30.9	The hierarchy, the leaders, they should be struggling with
0:35.2	it because a lot of the policies are driving people away. And so the struggle is
0:41.2	theirs. It's not mine.
0:44.0	Hi, I'm Cynthia Wynneware.
0:48.0	And I'm Susan Hinckley.
0:52.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:54.0	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:57.0	And the title of today's episode is
1:00.0	Embracing your journey.
1:01.0	A conversation with Lisa Torcasso Downing.
1:05.3	Welcome, Lisa. Hi, Lisa. Hi,
1:07.6	I thank you. So glad you are things like that before we jump in. Okay. I am a convert to Mormonism and I was
1:28.6	baptized a week before my 17th birthday way back in the good old days of 1978. I went to BYU where I snagged my
1:38.9	MRS degree and a bachelor's degree. My husband and I have been married for 37 years.
1:47.0	We produce three amazing kids.
1:49.0	All of them are not participating in the church at all. I currently live in Texas. I grew up in
1:57.2	Southern California. What city? San Marino next to Pasadena.
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