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In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, host Caroline Kline speaks with Amy Watkins Jensen and Fara Sneddon about the long, unfinished story of women claiming authority, voice, and power within Mormonism. Drawing on history, lived experience, and contemporary activism, the conversation explores how Mormon women have negotiated institutional constraints, created alternative spaces for leadership, and articulated theological and cultural visions of women’s authority.
Amy Watkins Jensen discusses her work with Women on the Stand, reflecting on grassroots efforts to expand women’s participation and visibility in LDS worship, including collaborative approaches to local change. (Listeners can read more in Women on the Stand’s resource on best practices for collaborative worship here.
Historian Fara Sneddon situates these efforts within a broader historical context, tracing how women’s power has been expressed, constrained, and reimagined across Mormon history. Together, the guests consider what it means to claim power in a tradition that has often resisted women’s authority—and why these conversations continue to matter today.