In Her Image: Finding Heavenly Mother in Scripture, Scholarship, the Arts, Mythology & Everyday Life

In Her Image
In Her Image: Finding Heavenly Mother in Scripture, Scholarship, the Arts, Mythology & Everyday Life

Seeking and celebrating our Mother God through scripture, scholarship, the arts, mythology, and everyday life Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inherimage/support

  1. 3 NOV.

    141. Restore the Balance with Christy Spencer

    This episode captures a deep, heartfelt conversation between Jessica Woodbury, the host of In Her Image, and guest Christy Spencer. They discuss Christy’s spiritual journey, particularly her connection with Heavenly Mother, her humanitarian work, and personal experiences that shaped her view of divinity. The conversation explores themes of healing, faith, and redefining one's relationship with God through a feminine divine perspective. Key highlights include: ​Christy's Background and Work: Christy shares her decade-long humanitarian career with LDS humanitarian services, where she led impactful initiatives, especially around menstrual health in countries all around the world. Her work was deeply fulfilling, often directed by what she felt was divine guidance, and shaped her understanding of service as a sacred duty.​Heavenly Mother: Christy recounts her complex relationship with the concept of "mother" due to personal loss and challenges in her upbringing. She felt a yearning to understand and connect with the feminine aspect of divinity, which deepened as she became a mother herself. She describes instances where she felt Heavenly Mother's presence in her life, adding depth to her faith.​Personal Experiences and Faith: Christy describes her journey of healing and empowerment through moments of profound personal revelation, such as a dream about a pad design during her humanitarian work. She believes that God’s guidance often came in feminine tones and through nature, which she considers Heavenly Mother's house.​Doctrine of Heavenly Parents: They discuss how understanding God as both a Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother has reshaped Christy’s perspective. She emphasizes the importance of unity and balance between masculine and feminine divine attributes and advocates for language inclusivity in church settings, believing that recognizing Heavenly Mother expands believers’ perceptions of divinity.​Analogies and Spiritual Insights: Christy uses the metaphor of God as a prism to describe her view of God, representing a spectrum of light and color that goes beyond human comprehension. This metaphor reflects her belief that God encompasses vast diversity and complexity, much like a prism reveals the colors within white light.This discussion touches on themes of community, unity, and the personal journey of faith, particularly for women within the Latter-day Saint tradition. Christy’s stories and insights offer a vision of spirituality enriched by a more inclusive view of the divine. God is a Prism blog post: https://thedispencery.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/god-is-a-prism/ A Mother There blog post: https://thedispencery.wordpress.com/2024/05/12/a-mother-there/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inherimage/support

    1 h 3 min
  2. 27 OCT.

    140. Our Heavenly Mother: Embracing a Full Theology with McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding

    In this enlightening episode of In Her Image, host Jessica Woodbury dives into a profound conversation with Bethany Brady Spalding and McArthur Krishna about the role of Heavenly Mother in Latter-day Saint theology and the deep, often overlooked, impact of acknowledging Her in doctrine and personal worship. They discuss the disconnect between church teachings and member practices, and how integrating a more holistic view of Heavenly Parents can transform personal spirituality and church culture. With inspiring personal stories, Bethany and MacArthur share their experiences of bringing Heavenly Mother into daily life and teaching. They explore how recognizing Her role affirms the divine potential of women, fosters equal partnership in marriage, and supports a nurturing model of spiritual sovereignty. This episode invites listeners to rediscover and cherish the expansive nature of the Divine Feminine and consider the ways it can bring balance, healing, and joy to their faith journeys. McArthur and Bethany’s article “Why Heavenly Mother is Essential for Women Understanding their Eternal Destiny”: https://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleKrishnaSpaldingEternalDestiny.html#:~:text=If%20the%20theology%20of%20Heavenly%20Mother%20is%20embraced,show%20them%20a%20glorious%20vision%20for%20their%20future --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inherimage/support

    1 h 32 min
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Seeking and celebrating our Mother God through scripture, scholarship, the arts, mythology, and everyday life Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inherimage/support

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