ALSSI News
November 2025
Hello!
Hard to believe we’ve come to the end of Season 10. We’ve hope you enjoyed our series of conversations centering change and transition as much as we enjoyed planning and recording them! Many thanks to all our guests this season, and of course to our listeners. If you haven’t had time to listen yet, we hope the upcoming holidays will give you a chance to catch your breath … and catch up on your favorite podcasts too!
“Isn’t that the case for our lives? Thank you at the beginning; thank you at the end.
And apocalypse in the middle.”— Diana Butler Bass1
Let’s start with the calendar:
12/16 — Dec. Bonus Episode: Revisiting Christ Chose Women
12/19 — Friday Live Chat on Zoom, 10:00 am Mtn
01/22 — At Last She Read It Book Club, 7:00 pm Mtn
02/03 — ALSSI Season 11 begins. We’ll be talking about Big Ideas!
Addit’l Notes:
For our December Friday Live Chat we’ll discuss the bonus—watch for the link in the usual Substack chat thread. No need to register!
Our January ALSRI Book Club discussion will focus on Melissa Inouye’s book, Sacred Struggle. Add it to your Christmas wish list, and mark your calendar to join us for a great discussion!
You can register by clicking here, or under the events tab on our website.
We’re already scheduling some amazing guests for next season—if all our plans come to fruition, it’ll be our most exciting season yet. Fingers crossed! 🤞🤞
Speaking of next season—
We need your voicemails! We’re hoping to have a mailbag episode about Sin. That’s right, 3 little letters that carry a whoooole lotta weight in some religious circles … but not so much in others. We’d like to hear your thoughts about it:
How has the concept of sin played into your spiritual life as a Latter-day Saint?
Where did your ideas about it come from, and how have those ideas impacted you and your faith?
Has your thinking around sin changed?
Have you reframed it entirely?
You can send us a voicemail by clicking here, or just click the voicemail tab on our website anytime. Remember, we may use your recording on an upcoming episode. You have 90 seconds to share, so it may help to organize your thoughts a little in advance to be sure you get it all in. We look forward to hearing from you!
“It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.”
—Richard Rohr2
Year-end Giving.
A million thanks to everyone who supports At Last She Said It. Whether with your downloads or your dollars, we appreciate every member of this community and the contributions you make to help us keep the mics on and the conversations ad-free. As the end of this year approaches, we want to remind you that your donations are tax deductible. If you donate to take advantage of the tax benefit but you’d like a paid subscription to our Substack so you can participate fully there, just drop us an email and we’ll hook you up. And as always, if you’d like a paid subscription but can’t contribute, send us an email and we’re happy to comp you, no questions asked! We don’t want anyone to miss out.
“That you see me O God, I give you thanks. Thank you for seeing that which I try to hide. Thank you for seeing my hurt and my fear. Thank you for seeing my heart and my humor. Thank you for seeing that I am stronger than I think and that I am also not nearly as strong as I think. Thank you for seeing this broken-ass world in all its beauty and most especially thank you for seeing all of these things and then responding in nothing but completely mad love.
Thank you for how you have sent these your people to show themselves to me and how in doing so – in sending the gay kids and babies and retired folks and suburban moms and depressives and corporate guys and social workers and students that you have shown yourself to me. Knowing as you do that without the stories, gifts and scars of each of these people I would never see enough of you.”
—Nadia Bolz-Weber3
Year-end Gifting too!
If you enjoyed our book and you’re looking for a gift this season for someone you’d like to start—or just share—a conversation with, we hope you’ll keep it in mind!
paperback $24.95 | ebook $9.99 | audiobook $19.95
Buy on Bookshop.org
Buy on Amazon
Buy at B&N
“If you’re grateful, you’re not fearful,
and if you’re not fearful, you’re not violent.
If you’re grateful, you act out of a sense of enough
and not of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share.
If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people.
You are respectful to everybody.
And that changes this power pyramid under which we live.”
― David Steindl-Rast4
Wishing you a sweet Thanksgiving, Friends!
Our thanks to YOU.
~Susan and Cynthia
Gratitude during Apocalypse, by Diana Butler Bass, The Cottage, 03/29/2025
The Myth of Transgression, Center for Action and Contemplation, 08/24/2017
Sermon on Gratitude, by Nadia Bolz-Weber, Patheos, 10/18/2016
What Does It Take to be Grateful?, David Steindl-Rast, Ted Radio Hour, NPR, 02/14/2014