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Podcast: Unleashing Sister Saints
Episode: 59. Women Quoted at the Pulpit & General Conference Insights (Hidden Pearl)
Description: This weekend is general conference, the worldwide gathering of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am excited to feel God’s love and peace during the conference and to listen for messages from the Spirit especially for me. With conference in mind, this week I'm replaying an episode first released before the April 2023 general conference that highlights Eliza Wells’ recent scholarly article, “Quoted at the Pulpit: Male Rhetoric and Female Authority in Fifty Years of General Conference.”
Unfortunately, Wells’ research outlines that women have been quoted less, acknowledged less, and are seen as less autho...