Episode 178: Women's Spirituality | A Conversation with Brittney Hartley

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Like flowers in the cracks of a sidewalk, women’s spirituality has had to work its way around and through thousands of years of religious beliefs and practices established and maintained by and for men. “I have stopped trying to make my life look spiritually acceptable to men. Men have very specific criteria for what spirituality is, based on the reality that men have been the only ones writing religious rites and scripture,” explains Brittney Hartley. Her words are deeply resonant for many Latter-day Saint women who struggle to grow our own spirituality in a church that is patriarchy all the way down. In Episode 178, Brittney joins Cynthia and Susan for a conversation about women defining and redefining for ourselves what spirituality can be.

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0:00.0	I hope that when I'm in these spiritual direction sessions that I just give them permission
0:07.9	that if you are awake and connected in your life, then it is spiritual and it can be doing anything and that really
0:16.7	having a family and managing those kinds of relationships is one of the hardest
0:22.3	spiritual practices.
0:23.8	It deserves respect.
0:25.4	It deserves titles like guru because it is such incredible work.
0:31.8	Hi. incredible work. Hi, I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:36.0	And I'm Cynthia Wynnward.
0:38.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:40.0	We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things.
0:42.0	And the title of today's episode is Women of Faith, Faith, discussing complicated things.
0:42.8	And the title of today's episode is,
0:44.8	Women's Spirituality, a conversation with Brittany Hartley.
0:49.4	Hi, Brittany.
0:50.6	Hi, welcome.
0:51.8	We're delighted to have you today happy to be here you know we've never met and I
0:57.0	don't think that you and Cynthia have ever met either but the three of us have been
0:59.8	kind of wandering the same halls for many years and kind of passing each other in the hall.
1:04.8	So I'm so happy to have this opportunity to finally get to have a real conversation with you.
1:10.1	I've admired your work for years and your voice so it's it's my pleasure and
1:15.2	I'm a big fan of the work that you're doing with this podcast oh well thank you I
1:19.8	think we're all trying to accomplish some of the same goals with our work in this space.
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