“Spiritual stretching … makes you stronger, gives you more balance, and keeps you stable. It took me years to understand that my questions and seeking that stretch me, and are really difficult to wrestle with, are healthy and completely in line with our theology. […] We need more stretchy saints.” Amy Watkins Jensen has plenty of hard-earned wisdom to share with those who may be experiencing challenges—even heartbreak—on their journey as Latter-day Saint women. In Episode 187, she joins Cynthia and Susan to talk about how her lifetime of church experience continues to fuel her faith.
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Find Amy @womenonthestand
Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It, by Brian D. McLaren
Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable., by Jessica Grose, New York Times, 6/12/2024
In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez
“I know you feel that everything you value is slipping through your fingers. But don’t clench your fists. Open your hands. Your open hands, open eyes, and open heart will prepare the way for new gains, not just new thoughts, but new ways of thinking. in which knowing and unknowing, faith and doubt, clarity and mystery are not opposites, but complements.” —Brian McLaren
