Episode 245 (Bonus): Re-Acknowledging the Elephant | A Conversation about Polygamy with The Faithful Feminists
Every four years, D&C 132 comes around for study again. If you ask a Latter-day Saint woman what she keeps on her metaphorical faith “shelf,” there’s a good chance polygamy will be there. It’s mostly ignored in contemporary church conversations and teachings, a murky doctrine wrapped in a historical wound that continues to fester, easier to ignore than to heal. Many friends and family members won’t even share their true feelings about it with each other. But what are the consequences of our silence around polygamy? How long can we collectively carry this enormous weight we never allow ourselves to set down? Bonus Episode 245 is a rerun of Susan and Cynthia’s original conversation about polygamy with Channing and Elise from The Faithful Feminists podcast, an honest exploration of where we’ve been, where we are, and where we might go next.
Notes & Quotes:
The Birth of Pleasure, by Carol Gilligan
Polygamy in Pieces - Part One: Timeline (Doctrine & Covenants 132), The Faithful Feminists podcast, 11/08/2021
I wish you had started this episode with saying, "this is a re-run of the episode we showed four years ago" instead of giving us hope that the Faithful Feminists were back.