Episode 173: An Open Letter to the Church | The Imagination Episode

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Some topics come up in these podcast conversations again and again, and that gets our attention. They frustrate us but also feel like obvious opportunities: areas where the church we love could take a step forward, and even small changes might make a big difference. In Episode 173, Cynthia and Susan call out a few of their frustrations and imagine possible responses that would feel like real progress.

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0:00.0	But I feel like the church has some responsibility too and here's why that here we're
0:08.8	getting to the part where this belongs in our open letter because I have spent my whole lifetime here and I want to
0:14.8	stay and I feel like they should want me to stay. But we should also both want me to be spiritually healthy and spiritually fed.
0:25.0	So as I've had to ask myself, you know, what does all this mean for me now?
0:30.1	I feel like my church should be asking itself,
0:35.0	hey, people are struggling to stay,
0:37.7	so are we missing the mark in some way?
0:40.1	You know, what do the members needs require of us now?
0:47.0	Hello I am Cynthia Wynward and I'm Susan Hinkley
0:51.0	and this is at last she said it. We are Women of Faith discussing
0:54.9	complicated things. And the title of today's episode is, an open letter to the church.
1:04.5	What makes us think we get to send an open letter to the church, Cynthia?
1:08.0	I don't know.
1:09.3	This has been my dilemma as we've been planning for this episode. I was like wow Cynthia you really have an
1:15.4	ego now you think that you actually get to tell the big people in charge what you
1:20.5	really think so I don't know it's feeling a little
1:26.6	nerve-racking to me so I hope it goes okay today so I agree I agree on all of those
1:32.2	counts but something you just said there kind of gives me an
1:36.1	opening for where I want to start this because I kind of want to clarify that when we say an
1:40.9	open letter to the church I mean both to the organization and to its members.
1:47.0	Okay.
1:48.0	Because I'm not just railing on the organization, I'm sort of railing on the whole thing.
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