Episode 203: An Evolving Faith | A Conversation with Valerie Hamaker

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

There are some topics that seem to surface again and again in our ALSSI conversations: love, fear, self, change, and patriarchy, to name a few. In Episode 203, Cynthia and Susan are joined by Valerie Hamaker for a conversation that touches on these themes and others as we discuss evolving faith.

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0:00.0	Then I need to decide for myself, who am I and what do I actually believe.
0:07.0	And so that's one of the big things that I think I offer people, which is a sense of their own,
0:13.0	always existing competence, goodness, loveability, wisdom, and like their potential to discern
0:20.0	and choose for themselves who are they in the context of
0:23.6	God? And I think in some ways that feels really, really radical to a lot of people because
0:29.1	so for so many of us who have been born and raised in the LDS Church, which is, you know,
0:33.4	it's an early stage faith kind of paradigm. Many people have lots and lots of received beliefs and a received identity.
0:41.3	Oh, yeah.
0:42.3	Right?
0:43.3	And a lot of them haven't even asked those kinds of questions.
0:45.3	And so when things fall apart, it's like, I don't, that's not working, but I don't have anything else.
0:50.3	I don't know where else to go.
0:54.2	Hi, I'm Cynthia Winward.
0:56.6	And I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:58.6	And this is at last she said it.
1:00.6	We are women of faith discussing complicated themes.
1:03.7	And the title of today's episode is An Evolving Faith,
1:07.7	A Conversation with Valerie Hammaker.
1:10.6	I'm so excited to share this conversation, Cynthia.
1:13.8	I'm really excited, too. And you and I have, we pre-recorded this combo with her a few
1:19.5	weeks ago. So you and I are just kind of tacking on an intro here, which is kind of nice,
1:23.2	because now I feel like we can talk a little bit about what we loved about this episode.
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