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Nun, Suffering Saint or Outcast? Single Middle-Aged Women in the Church

1 h 1 min · 13. apr. 2026
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If you're Protestant, a woman is supposed to get married. If you're Catholic or Orthodox, a woman can get married or become a nun. The Bible also offered polygamy as an option, one the Mormons famously adopted in their need to care for a large number of widows and orphans, but that is frowned up today. So women are often pressured to marry men that won't be good husbands, or ostracized as a threat. What are the answers offered to the whole generation of women who either through circumstances or cultural pressure find themselves sing and childless in middle age? This an episode with a lot of questions and no answers... Referenced in the Episode: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich [https://a.co/d/0cbXpFrz]

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Nun, Suffering Saint or Outcast? Single Middle-Aged Women in the Church

If you're Protestant, a woman is supposed to get married. If you're Catholic or Orthodox, a woman can get married or become a nun. The Bible also offered polygamy as an option, one the Mormons famously adopted in their need to care for a large number of widows and orphans, but that is frowned up today. So women are often pressured to marry men that won't be good husbands, or ostracized as a threat. What are the answers offered to the whole generation of women who either through circumstances or cultural pressure find themselves sing and childless in middle age? This an episode with a lot of questions and no answers... Referenced in the Episode: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich [https://a.co/d/0cbXpFrz]

13. apr. 20261 h 1 min