Episode 201: What About Certainty? | What About Conscience?

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

David French wrote, “We live in an age of misplaced certainty, when even the smallest expressions of doubt or the slightest of disagreements break institutions and fracture families." In Episode 201, Cynthia and Susan take on certainty as it contributes to the development of a Church monoculture. Is there room for existential or intellectual humility in a "True" church? And as members of an organization built around checklists and worthiness assessments, can Latter-day Saints allow individual conscience to function as a holy disruptor?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Wow, Susan.
0:03.6	Sorry.
0:04.2	No.
0:04.7	I mean, can you imagine being able to say that in a temple recommended?
0:08.7	I'm asking for a friend, Cynthia.
0:10.3	I'm asking for a friend.
0:11.7	You're asking for a friend.
0:13.0	Right, right.
0:13.8	Can you imagine being able to say, I don't even need to know that?
0:17.2	Like, no, and I don't need to know.
0:19.1	I don't know.
0:19.6	I mean, isn't that basically what my friends
0:21.9	we're saying about their forever family is I don't need to know. I know God will take care of it.
0:28.3	But I don't think you could, no, I don't think you could walk into a recommend and say, I don't,
0:32.4	I don't know. Is it's Jesus Christ the savior of the whole world. I don't know. I know. But I kind of want to go in and say, but I got faith, hope, and love.
0:40.0	Yes.
0:40.2	So I feel like I'm covered.
0:41.5	Right.
0:41.7	I'm okay.
0:42.4	I don't need to know that because I got these things.
0:44.7	Right.
0:45.2	Right.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -86 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cynthia Winward, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Cynthia Winward and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.