Episode 264 (Transcript): Big Ideas | Myth
Episode Transcript
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SH: A myth is like the advice that your elders are giving you around the fire, right?
CW: Mm, Nice.
SH: Myth is a thing that lays out a problem or a life experience for us, and then asks us to assign meaning to the parts of it, or to decipher how the wisdom of the story might apply to us. And how do we do that? Well, we do that by looking at our own experience.
SH: Hello, I’m Susan Hinckley.
CW: And I’m Cynthia Winward.
SH: And this is At Last She Said It. We are women of faith discussing complicated things, and the title of today’s episode is Big Ideas: Myth.
CW: We’re going there, Susan.
SH: I know. I’m so excited for this conversation.
CW: What? Oh my gosh, okay, you’re excited and I’m just nervous, like–-
SH: No, it’s gonna be great.
CW: Like nervous laughter, but I can only blame myself because I started the notes today, so I don’t know. And here’s why I’m nervous is, I don’t know. Like so many topics, how long have we been wanting to have this conversation?
SH: Right.
CW: And how many times do we just keep kicking that can down the road? I mean, and we’ve danced around it. Like, let’s go four, four years ago with Kaisa Berlin Kalfusie, episode 84-
SH: Right, right.
CW: Do I Literally Have to Believe That? So we have talked about, you know, literal versus metaphorical, but somehow bringing in the word myth and really dissecting that, I feel like I’m really punching above my weight, and I could be punching into, like, really tender spots for people. So I just kinda need to, needed to have that disclaimer right here.
Okay, here we go.
SH: Okay, but, you’re like a business major.
CW: Yes.
SH: And I’m, like, an English major married to another English major. Like, sometimes my husband actually, like, when we talk about New Year’s resolutions, he’ll say, “I haven’t read my Greek mythology for a while. I think I need to reread Greek mythology.” I mean, this is the house that I have.
CW: I’m so jealous of you two. So jealous.
SH: So I’m just saying that, like, some of your feelings as you approach that word, that big, small word, that big, little word, might be just because you’re not as comfortable in that realm maybe-
CW: 100%.
