Episode 199 (Bonus): Revisiting "Did It Ever Matter?" | Garments

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

“All dogma begins in mysticism,” says Rob Bell. But by the time programs, practices, and policies filter down to Church members, it’s little wonder the criteria for determining what really matters in the long term—and why—can feel a bit fuzzy. In light of recent changes, in bonus Episode 199 Cynthia and Susan revisit their conversation from Episode 102, Did It Ever Matter? What’s the point of all the trappings of our religious practice as Latter-day Saints? Why do some changes bring so much emotion? And who gets to determine what’s important to us?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Susan Henkley.
0:07.0	And I'm Cynthia Wynward.
0:11.2	And this is a last she said it. We are women of faith discussing complicated
0:15.0	things and the title of today's episode is Revisiting Did it Ever Matter?
0:20.3	Oh shoot. Were we going to put garments in the title? Well, it's in the title now, Cynthia.
0:27.0	Okay. Why not? There we go. There you go. I guess that explains to people why we're
0:38.5	revisiting this particular episode. Yes, it's because of the new garment changes.
0:44.0	Yes.
0:46.0	Well, I know that you had some thoughts about that and we're even maybe in newspapers and on other podcasts about it.
0:53.4	So I feel like you should be the one who
0:57.1	kicks off this discussion.
0:58.5	Give us some framing.
1:00.4	Okay, before we jump into the big topic, because we are going to be talking a little bit about
1:07.2	garments today, not just garments, but we're going to be revisiting an old episode,
1:11.8	like we said, did it ever matter episode 102 on
1:15.4	that episode we use this fantastic Rob Bell quote and he says all dogma begins in
1:22.1	mysticism.
1:24.8	And I absolutely support ways
1:28.7	to help us remember our covenants.
1:31.4	And I think that's where the mysticism part comes from this right I think
1:34.8	Joseph Smith was trying to come up with ways either on his own or in communication
1:42.4	or communion with God where he was trying to help us figure out ways
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