Episode 196: What About Ritual? | A Conversation with Selina Forsyth

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

“For me, broadening my thinking about ritual has given me more freedom to bring my whole self and my creativity to my spiritual life, as well as meet my unique and evolving spiritual needs,” explains Selina Forsyth, who joins Cynthia and Susan to discuss ritual in the lives of Latter-day Saint women. What about when the rituals provided by our religion no longer fit? Even if they do remain deeply meaningful, in a church where women have not been involved in creating official sacred rituals—and sometimes participate in them only as observers—it can be hard to feel we have authority to create personal sacred rituals for ourselves. Episode 196 is a conversation about the intentional making and marking of meaning in the big and small moments of our lives.

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0:00.0	I think reframing what ritual can mean is a big first step to say okay even if you are in a place where you want to view the ordinances as primary, you can
0:17.9	say there's still that space and, but there's all of the rest of this right all of the all of the
0:26.7	rest of this and you can say okay there's the ordinances and and that's them and I
0:31.6	have space in my own life to create what's meaningful for me.
0:35.0	Hi, I'm Cynthia Wynward and I'm Susan Hinckley.
0:40.0	And this is at last she said it. We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things.
0:45.5	And the title of today's episode is, what about ritual, a conversation with
0:52.0	Selina Forsight. Welcome, Salina. Hi, Salina. Hi,
0:56.1	Salina. Hi, so happy to be here. We're so glad you're here and this whole season we've been talking about women's
1:04.5	spirituality and we knew we couldn't get through this season without talking about
1:09.4	ritual and it can be so complicated when we talk about ritual it gets tangled up with
1:16.4	Ordinances and and so we're just excited to have a conversation with all of those about all those things surrounding ritual and the beauty and
1:25.3	the complicatedness of it with you today so why don't before we jump in can you just
1:31.0	give us a quick little snapshot of who you are and what brings you to this type of conversation with us?
1:39.0	Yeah, I am also really excited about this conversation.
1:43.2	When you launched this season about women's spirituality,
1:48.0	it really, really just jived with me and I heard your first couple of episodes and thought oh this is a
1:56.2	conversation that I want to have and it made me think of ways that my spirituality has expanded recently. I am currently studying to be a
2:08.2	spiritual director and part of that is accompanying people as they are exploring their own spirituality.
2:16.6	And I was drawn to that because my definition of what spirituality looks like has really expanded in the last few years.
2:24.1	And part of that has been diving into interfaith work and really appreciating,
2:31.2	participating in celebrations with other people of other faiths,
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