Episode 204: Do I Have to Care? | The Second Coming

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

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

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In a church where everything is “true,” how do we allocate importance? With only so much bandwidth, we all have to make choices about what matters to us. Which ideas do we find to be consistently resonant, or generative? Which produce meaningful fruit in our lives and relationships? In Episode 204, Cynthia and Susan take on the current interest in the Second Coming in a discussion about deciding what really matters.

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0:00.0	Where whether the second coming is literal or not doesn't matter.
0:10.4	Because in making the shift toward the God of experience, that's the second coming.
0:17.6	You start experiencing God, really experiencing it for the first time.
0:22.9	And then the literal second coming narrative, that sort of belongs with the other stuff.
0:28.4	If it happens, fine. If it doesn't, fine.
0:31.4	But it sort of goes with all of those defined beliefs that have been handed to us.
0:35.2	It's like dogma versus experience, basically.
0:42.5	Hi, I'm Cynthia Winward. And I'm Susan Hinkley. And this is at last she said it. We are women of
0:49.3	faith discussing complicated things. And the title of this week's episode is, do I have to care?
0:57.3	The second coming.
1:01.5	Susan, why don't you...
1:03.1	I'm going to take either credit or blame for that title.
1:06.2	I was just going to say, Susan, can you explain the, do I have to care?
1:12.0	Because that was your stroke of genius. Well, I mean, call it genius or call it I'm really trouble. But either way,
1:19.9	it's what I thought of when I thought about doing an episode about the second coming. Not that I
1:25.7	didn't care about doing an episode about it, but we have a few
1:29.2	franchises as part of this podcast, right? We have, does that scripture mean what you think it means?
1:36.1	We have, we don't believe our own stuff. And so the other day I was thinking about approaching
1:42.0	this topic and thinking, we just need a new franchise, Cynthia.
1:45.4	And I think it's going to be, do I have to care?
1:48.7	Because there is only so much bandwidth in anyone's life, right?
1:55.0	I mean, there are only so many clucks to give.
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