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 112: What About Purity Culture?
What does it mean to a Latter-day Saint young woman when she hears that virtue and chastity are ‘most dear and precious above all things?’ Purity Culture is a movement built on teachings of sexual ab…
00:58:00 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
Episode 111: Raising Healthy Kids in the Church—A Conversation with Michelle Larson
For women who have experienced some kind of faith shift or feminist awakening, how to raise children in the Church may become a perplexing question. We may want something different from the messaging…
00:58:20 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
Episode 110: We Don't Believe Our Own Stuff—Repentance Edition
How do you think about repentance? Is it a way to become pure? A way to change direction? A way to accept responsibility for harm we’ve caused ourselves or others? And how do you feel about an organi…
00:59:54 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
Episode 109: BONUS—A Few More Thoughts About Sealings
In this short bonus episode, Cynthia and Susan share a few more listeners' experiences and feelings about temple sealings and the policies around them. Spoiler: It's complicated.
00:14:09 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
Episode 108: What About Sealings?
Disparity in the Church’s sealing policies for men and women is something many members never think about until their life experience reveals it in some way. The truth is, a variety of complex real-li…
00:59:10 |
Tue 06 Sep 2022
Episode 107: In Search of Self — A Conversation with C.A. Larson
Having learned about her well-defined role as a wife and mother from the time she is a young girl, when and how does a Latter-day Saint woman develop an understanding of who she is as an individual? …
01:03:50 |
Tue 30 Aug 2022
Episode 106: What About Blessings? Part 2
‘Blessing’ is a catch-all word. From prosperity gospel to the laying on of hands, it is used to describe a transactional approach to our relationship with God: we do something and believe we are ‘ble…
01:03:25 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
Episode 105: The Process of Staying...A Few More Thoughts—BONUS
In this short bonus episode, Susan shares “Circles of Light,” the essay in which the phrase ‘I’m in the process of staying’ originated.
00:16:56 |
Fri 19 Aug 2022
Episode 104: The Process of Staying
“Why do you stay? How do you stay?” Because the conversations on this podcast often highlight problems Latter-day Saint women have observed or experienced in their church lives, these questions come …
00:59:26 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Episode 103: What About Missions? A Conversation with Apple Lanman
There’s a lot of pressure around missions in the Church. From the time they are very young, our children hear the clear expectation that they will serve. But the decision to serve, the realities of m…
00:59:14 |
Tue 09 Aug 2022
Episode 102: Did It Ever Matter?
There’s a tension in our church between things that change and things that some members consider to be unchangeable. It can be hard to distinguish between the two, and our history would suggest that …
00:59:41 |
Tue 02 Aug 2022
Episode 101: Still Ultimate, Still a Big Deal—BONUS
In this short bonus episode, Cynthia and Susan say a little bit more about the temple—a topic so big, there will always be more to say.
00:27:56 |
Fri 29 Jul 2022
Episode 100: The Ultimate Big Deal, Part 3
For our 100th episode, what could be more fitting than a discussion about the temple? It’s the centerpiece of Latter-day Saint worship members believe sets our church apart from all others. Many wome…
01:02:19 |
Tue 26 Jul 2022
Episode 099: We Don't Believe Our Own Stuff—Heavenly Mother Edition
Who we pray to and how we envision God is personal, but the Church organization can and does limit our collective discourse about Heavenly Mother. Many feminists have been disciplined for speaking an…
00:58:42 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
Episode 098: The Invisible Woman
The term ‘invisible woman’ refers to the feeling many women have that they lose social value as their ability to attract the male gaze fades with age. But do older women disappear in church, as well …
00:57:58 |
Tue 12 Jul 2022
Episode 097: Christ Chose Women
When one thinks about the events of Jesus’ life and ministry, it’s natural to think about women. The Bible shows us a man whose inclusion of women was radical within its cultural context. Yet for mos…
00:54:39 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
Episode 096: The God of All of Us
If you grow up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is God a man, a woman, or both? It’s a complication we bump up against a lot, if only indirectly, in our religion where God is Heave…
00:55:19 |
Tue 28 Jun 2022
Episode 095: Everyone Back to Church—BONUS
In this brief bonus episode, Cynthia and Susan discuss some effects of the pandemic on their own faith and church lives.
00:10:34 |
Thu 23 Jun 2022
Episode 094: Everyone Back to Church...Maybe?
The pandemic that interrupted attendance for all members forced an unprecedented change in our personal church habits and activity. It blurred the distinction between work, education, church, and fam…
00:58:33 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
Episode 093: How To Be a Smart Mouth
How we communicate with other Church members can be as important as what we’re trying to say. Women are at a disadvantage with less freedom and opportunity to speak truth to those in authority. Even …
00:59:16 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
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