Episode 198 (Bonus): What About Women Leaving the Church? | Revisiting Messages to Our Daughters

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

An August 2024 Church Handbook update includes instruction inviting “Young Women class presidencies to organize youth to minister by welcoming visitors and members as they enter the chapel.” Does this baby step represent leadership’s awareness of the need for Latter-day Saint young women to have some kind of systematic responsibility at the ward level? In Episode 198, Cynthia and Susan discuss this change in the context of research detailing historic shifts in religious engagement for Gen Z men and women. This episode also revisits a previous exploration of the question many of the Church’s children are asking: “When will girls be able to pass the sacrament?”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Cynthia Wynward.
0:05.0	And I'm Susan Hinckley.
0:10.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:12.0	We are women of Faith discussing complicated things.
0:15.0	And the title of this week's bonus episode is,
0:20.0	what about women leaving the church?
0:22.0	A lot of talk about that this week, Cynthia? So much talk about it. I think I've lost count how many of our listeners have sent us like different tick talks by women who've been breaking down kind of
0:36.7	this message that we're going to talk about today so right jump in.
0:40.9	Well Cynthia a couple of things happened this week that made us want to jump on the mics.
0:45.2	One of them was something that we were reading online that was a member talking about how they had been in, I don't know what, one of their ward leadership
0:56.7	meetings.
0:57.7	And the bishop had read something from, well, the new handbook changes?
1:03.7	Yeah, I think something from the handbook changes.
1:06.8	Talking about young women taking on new roles ushering.
1:11.4	I think probably a lot of us remember when that came out recently and so he had
1:15.5	posed the question of what you know whether they ought to do that in their ward would
1:21.2	it be appropriate for the young women to do that and not only do that but
1:24.6	maybe do it in during the sacrament which is a little bit different right than ushering
1:31.0	before the meeting I guess but well I mean
1:34.0	okay it's standing at doors right? Right. Actually it's doing even less than you would
1:40.0	do ushering in a meeting because you're not talking to people.
1:44.4	All you're doing is standing at the doors, right?
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