Episode 72: Doing is Believing
In this conversation, Cynthia and Susan explore belief and behavior in an attempt to answer a listener’s question, “Are you women true believers?” There are a lot of markers members use to figure out where other members sit on the spectrum of testimony and church engagement. We judge not just beliefs, but the language used to express them. But if we really must vet each other’s faith, a better question might be, “How does being a member of the Church change the way you live?”
Notes & Quotes:
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, by Barbara Brown Taylor
Discourse, 8 April 1843, The Joseph Smith Papers, as Reported by Willard Richards