Traditions and Truth

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Many of our faith traditions today have been borrowed from our larger culture and are being taught as doctrine. We have a responsibility to examine the ideas that are presented to us and discern truth from error and sort out doctrine from tradition–no matter whether the ideas in question come from our families, church leaders, or others. Earnestly seeking out truth is what fosters our freedom and wisdom and will allow us to fully access the richness of our theology. In this NEW podcast episode, Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife joins the Cultural Hall Podcast to discuss some of the false traditions that have been passed down through generations and are now being misunderstood as doctrine–topics like patriarchal order within the church and family, Mother in Heaven, equality, priesthood authority, polygamy, and sexuality. It’s important to pray, ponder, and discern your own position. Listen to the full episode to learn more about: * Personal revelation and moral responsibility * Traditions vs Truth * Limited understandings of sexuality, intimacy, priesthood, and Mother-in-Heaven * How to handle complicated topics and different perspectives with maturity

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0:00.0	Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, and more, all featuring Dr. Finlason-Fife.
0:21.0	Hey everyone, Dr. Finlason Fife here.
0:24.0	Next February, I'm going to be heading to Gilbert, Arizona
0:28.0	to do a three-day Art of Desire workshop.
0:31.0	We just released tickets and anticipate that they'll go quickly so
0:35.2	click on the link in the show notes to reserve your spot today. Hope to see you
0:40.0	there. You know, in my dissertation research, I was interviewing LDS women who had grown up in the
0:50.5	church who were currently married and I was looking specifically at how much of a sense of agency they had in their marriage sexually.
1:00.6	So that is that they were like felt like they were really part of a partnership that they were they had a sense of being able to kind of
1:07.8	How to say be the drivers of their choices the architects of their of their engagement in a sense rather than they're
1:14.1	they're just doing what their husband wants or yielding or denying it so that was
1:18.0	kind of my dissertation work and one of the things that was kind of a finding that
1:21.7	emerged in doing these interviews was that
1:24.6	the women who were the happiest in a married relationship had a very strong sense of
1:30.9	agency psychologically and sexually.
1:34.5	So what I mean by that is that they were very clear
1:39.3	that they were equals with their spouse.
1:42.3	And so even if they were kind of traditionally aligned,
1:44.7	one was, they were home and their husband was working,
1:47.6	there was genuinely no sense of not being equal
1:51.5	and they were equal in making decisions together and she took herself seriously
1:55.6	maybe for lack of a better way of saying it. She took herself seriously in the sort of relational
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