Episode 187: Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Amy Watkins Jensen

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

“Spiritual stretching ... makes you stronger, gives you more balance, and keeps you stable. It took me years to understand that my questions and seeking that stretch me, and are really difficult to wrestle with, are healthy and completely in line with our theology. [...] We need more stretchy saints.” Amy Watkins Jensen has plenty of hard-earned wisdom to share with those who may be experiencing challenges—even heartbreak—on their journey as Latter-day Saint women. In Episode 187, she joins Cynthia and Susan to talk about how her lifetime of church experience continues to fuel her faith.

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0:00.0	People don't understand the why is that having women on the stand.
0:05.0	And obviously what we see matters.
0:10.0	Right.
0:11.0	And it's communicating a story, it's communicating a narrative.
0:14.0	And, you know, the stand in Latter-day Saint meetings
0:18.0	symbolizes stewardship, service, ministering, and also priesthood power.
0:26.8	And when women are left off the stand,
0:29.1	they're left out of that narrative.
0:31.5	And it's leaving this like sort of incomplete picture of how we as Latter-day
0:37.4	Saints how we care for each other.
0:45.0	Hi I'm Susan Hinckley. And I'm Cynthia Wynward.
0:48.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:50.0	We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things and the title of today's
0:54.5	episode is Embracing Your Journey, a conversation with Amy Watkins Jensen.
1:00.0	Welcome Amy. Thank you I'm so happy to be here.
1:04.0	Welcome, welcome.
1:05.0	We are absolutely delighted to have you.
1:09.0	And our listeners might know you from your Instagram account which has had a meteoric rise to
1:15.4	stardom.
1:16.4	I do believe actually it's gone fast hasn't it?
1:20.8	Well I mean maybe it's that ours didn't go that fast, but, but it seems like yours has gone
1:26.3	fast and I think it's because it was born kind of in this mailstrom of things going on. And I'm sure we're going to get more to that later but would
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