At Last She Said It
At Last She Said It is a podcast that seeks to amplify and explore a variety of voices, stories, ideas and experiences of Mormon women.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 232
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 212: Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Kathie Debenham
“My faith is this process of evolving, ebbing, flowing, forming, reforming, shaping, shape shifting,” explains Kathie Debenham. It’s no surprise that she describes her faith as a moving thing; as a …
00:58:31 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Episode 211: Who's the Decider? | A Conversation with Natalie Brown
When asked about the possibility of priesthood ordination for women in 1998, Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley famously told Larry King, “It would take another revelation to bring that about. I don’t anticipa…
01:00:24 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
Episode 210: Marriage Edition Part 2 | A(nother) Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Bird
In Part 2 of the conversation about biblical marriage, Susan and Cynthia ask Dr. Jennifer Bird about virginity, purity culture, and—of course!—biblical polygamy. Joseph Smith drew on polygamy in the …
00:57:47 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Episode 209: Does That Scripture Mean What You Think it Means? Marriage Edition | A Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Bird
“If we want to look at this sacred collection called the Bible as our guide, let's be really clear and honest about what it was saying on its own terms first, then leave it up to everyone to figure o…
00:53:17 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Episode 208: Patriarchy 101 | A Conversation with Amy McPhie Allebest
Latter-day Saints have a complicated relationship with the word patriarchy. We reverence it, including variations in some of our highest callings and ordinances, yet many members won’t touch it in a …
01:11:02 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Episode 207: What About Religiosity, Violence and Abuse? | A Conversation with Dr. Susan Madsen
When it comes to talking about abuse and violence against women, “You have to become comfortable with being uncomfortable,” explains Susan Madsen. In Episode 207, Dr. Madsen joins Susan and Cynthia f…
01:08:06 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Episode 206: Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Darice Auston
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you," says Darice Auston, quoting Robert Frost. In Episode 206, Darice joins Cynthia and Susan to share some of the things that have …
01:02:16 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Episode 205: The Spiritual Nature of All Things | A Conversation with Kaylee McElroy
“The natural world, with all its varieties of God’s creations, shows us so many [other] ways of being,” writes Kaylee McElroy. Zooming out as far as human imagination can take us may bring our idea…
00:59:55 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
Episode 204: Do I Have to Care? | The Second Coming
In a church where everything is “true,” how do we allocate importance? With only so much bandwidth, we all have to make choices about what matters to us. Which ideas do we find to be consistently res…
01:03:22 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
Episode 203: An Evolving Faith | A Conversation with Valerie Hamaker
There are some topics that seem to surface again and again in our ALSSI conversations: love, fear, self, change, and patriarchy, to name a few. In Episode 203, Cynthia and Susan are joined by Valerie…
00:59:34 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
Episode 202: Who Deserves to Hear My Story?
When things start to shift around our faith, the need to tell people about the change can feel overwhelming. There are all kinds of reasons people want to share—it can feel isolating to carry such bi…
01:12:44 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Episode 201: What About Certainty? | What About Conscience?
David French wrote, “We live in an age of misplaced certainty, when even the smallest expressions of doubt or the slightest of disagreements break institutions and fracture families." In Episode 201,…
01:04:35 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
Episode 200: Let's Zoom Waaay Out
Our spiritual lives are our own, but they don’t exist in a vacuum. We can do all the inner work we want, but as Latter-day Saint women our personal journey is always going to intersect with our Churc…
01:03:25 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Episode 199 (Bonus): Revisiting "Did It Ever Matter?" | Garments
“All dogma begins in mysticism,” says Rob Bell. But by the time programs, practices, and policies filter down to Church members, it’s little wonder the criteria for determining what really matters in…
01:39:32 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Episode 198 (Bonus): What About Women Leaving the Church? | Revisiting Messages to Our Daughters
An August 2024 Church Handbook update includes instruction inviting “Young Women class presidencies to organize youth to minister by welcoming visitors and members as they enter the chapel.” Does thi…
01:31:48 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
Episode 197: Season 8 | That's a Wrap!
As a finale to this season of conversations about women’s spirituality, in Episode 197 Susan and Cynthia revisit some ideas that stood out to them, discuss personal takeaways, and chat about what’s o…
01:18:28 |
Tue 27 Aug 2024
Episode 196: What About Ritual? | A Conversation with Selina Forsyth
“For me, broadening my thinking about ritual has given me more freedom to bring my whole self and my creativity to my spiritual life, as well as meet my unique and evolving spiritual needs,” explains…
01:05:29 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
Episode 195: Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Candice Clark
Every Latter-day Saint woman’s walk is unique. Cynthia and Susan are joined in Episode 195 by Candice Clark, who shares a glimpse of her personal path and some valuable insights she’s picked up along…
00:58:39 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
Episode 194: Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion, Oh My! | A Conversation with C.A. Larson
“If one is religious but not spiritual, it will not enhance mental health,” says therapist C.A. Larson. In Episode 194, C.A. joins Susan and Cynthia for a conversation at the intersection of religion…
01:19:32 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
Episode 193: What About Blessings, Part 3 | Things That Would Be Nice If They Were True
Bad things happen to good people—good works cannot protect us from the natural consequences of being human in an imperfect world. But in a church where the narrative often draws connections between w…
01:02:33 |
Tue 30 Jul 2024
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