“Life as a member offers relatively little social time or enjoyment,” writes Candice Wendt. “Being in the ward is mostly about passive listening and being told to follow leaders and go to the temple. […] You’re more likely to get asked to clean our very dirty building than be asked to dinner.” In Episode 186, Candice joins Susan and Cynthia for a discussion of some of the ways church has changed, with more focus on things like covenants and temple attendance, and less on community. It’s a conversation about what we’ve lost, what’s important, what remains, and what it all might mean in the lives of members and the future of the organization.
Notes & Quotes:
Read more from Candice in ALSSI Say More: At Last She Writes It No. 4, 11/2023 and No. 12, 3/2024
The Insidious Exchange of Community for Covenants, by Candice Wendt, Exponent II blog, 5/10/2024
Watch Out for These 3 Gender Biases in Performance Reviews, by Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, Harvard Business Review, 6/26/2023
Living on the Inside of the Edge: A Survival Guide, by Christian Kimball
Life to the Whole Being: The Spiritual Memoir of a Literature Professor, by Matthew Wickman
