Tag: patriarchy
13
Jun
Episode 144: Messages to our Daughters | Part 2—To our Young Selves
by Cynthia and Susan
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If you had the opportunity, what would you say to young Latter-day Saint girls about things like patriarchy, priesthood, women’s roles, the messages they receive...
30
May
Episode 142: Messages to Our Daughters | Part 1—About Girls and the Sacrament
by Cynthia and Susan
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One of the questions Cynthia and Susan hear most often comes from mothers who write, “My daughter is asking when it will be her turn...
23
May
Episode 141: The Making of Biblical Womanhood | A Conversation with Beth Allison Barr
by Cynthia and Susan
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Can faithful women reject patriarchy? Beth Allison Barr’s book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, suggests the answer...
18
Apr
Episode 135: What About Religious Trauma? | A Conversation with Jana Spangler
by Cynthia and Susan
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What’s religious trauma? For some Latter-day Saint women, church may become difficult or even unsafe because of it, yet many members have probably never heard...
28
Feb
Episode 127: Who Said You Could Wear That?
by Cynthia and Susan
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Cultural taboos and prohibitions can feel etched in stone for many Latter-day Saint women. Even in things so personal as what to wear to church,...
31
Jan
Episode 123: Reimagining Church
by Cynthia and Susan
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For some Latter-day Saints, our church services are feeling a little stale. Maybe even boring? If you got a seat on the Imagination Committee, what...
17
Jan
Episode 120: Not of the World? Not so Fast!
by Cynthia and Susan
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Latter-day Saints talk a lot about the wicked world: how it’s getting more wicked, how it’s a sign of the last days, how we’re supposed...
12
Dec
Episode 119, BONUS: Patriarchy as Sin—More Conversation with Kathryn Knight Sonntag
by Cynthia and Susan
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“The power struggle that’s inherent in this telestial sphere between men and women is the source of all of our pain…” In this short bonus,...
25
Oct
Episode 117: When Women Are The Problem
by Cynthia and Susan
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Are women complicit in their own marginalization within the Church? In their Season 5 finale episode, Cynthia and Susan unpack the idea of complicity, and...
18
Oct
Episodes 115 & 116: Meeting Your Feminist Self, Parts 1 & 2
by Cynthia and Susan
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There are probably as many versions of a feminist awakening as there are feminists. Some have always felt aware of the disparity between men’s and...
11
Oct
Episode 114: This Is Your Brain On Church—a Conversation with Jill Evans Opdahl
by Cynthia and Susan
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Language is powerful. The words and phrases we use repetitively in church create well-worn pathways in our brains. Each time we think in a certain...
04
Oct
Episode 113: Revisiting the Mother Tree — A Conversation with Kathryn Knight Sonntag
by Cynthia and Susan
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In her book, The Mother Tree: Discovering the Love and Wisdom of Our Divine Mother, author Kathryn Knight Sonntag wrote, “Further exploration of the Mother is...