Tag: spirituality
30
May
Episode 142: Messages to Our Daughters | Part 1—About Girls and the Sacrament
by Cynthia and Susan
2 Comments
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...
16
May
Episode 140: Does That Scripture Mean What You Think it Means? | A Dance with the Ten Virgins
by Cynthia and Susan
4 Comments
Every church goer has probably heard more lessons about the wise and foolish virgins than they can count. Why do Latter-day Saints love to talk...
09
May
Episode 138 & 139 (bonus): Finding Your Voice…and Using It | A Conversation with Afton Southam Parker; Let’s Talk About Garments…at last! | More with Afton
by Cynthia and Susan
12 Comments
Bringing attention to issues affecting Latter-day Saint women requires us to be opportunistic about using our voices. Even those in leadership callings don’t always find...
02
May
Episode 137: Let’s Talk About Healthy Relationships | A Conversation with Meghan Decker
by Cynthia and Susan
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In close relationships, sometimes it’s difficult to differentiate between a loved one’s side of the road and our own. We may develop unhealthy or unbalanced...
25
Apr
Episode 136: Let’s Talk About The One True Church
by Cynthia and Susan
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“I know this church is true.” Many Latter-day Saints rely on this anchor phrase when bearing testimony, but what do the words really mean? In...
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...
11
Apr
Episode 134: What About Converts? | A Conversation with KC Bramer
by Cynthia and Susan
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Many Latter-day Saint women have had similar experiences as lifelong Church members. We come up through Primary and Young Women’s singing the same songs, going...
04
Apr
Episode 132 & 133 (bonus): Ask Us Anything | ALSSI’s Third Anniversary, Parts 1 & 2
by Cynthia and Susan
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Please join us as we celebrate our podcast anniversary with an Ask-Us-Anything conversation, hosted by Blakelee Ellis and featuring listener questions with Cynthia-and-Susan answers! It’s...
28
Mar
Episode 131: Speaking in Sacrament Meeting | The Susan Edition
by Cynthia and Susan
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It sounds simple to say I must love my neighbor as I love myself, but what does that really look like? We have an unfaltering example...
21
Mar
Episode 130: Speaking in Sacrament Meeting | The Cynthia Edition
by Cynthia and Susan
4 Comments
For ALSSI listeners, it’ll be no surprise that when Cynthia was asked to speak on the subject of atonement, she pivoted to an exploration of...
07
Mar
Episode 128: It’s Not Easy—A Conversation about Having Hard Conversations | with C.A. Larson
by Cynthia and Susan
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Latter-day Saint women in a liminal faith space may find it’s not easy to know what to say, or to whom we can say it....
28
Feb
Episode 127: Who Said You Could Wear That?
by Cynthia and Susan
4 Comments
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,...