Making Peace With Your Temple Journey: A conversation with Sarah Perkins Sabey

Sarah is a writer, filmmaker, and recent PhD graduate in literature. Together with her husband, she is a co-author of The Book of Mormon Storybook and the human behind the Instagram account @forlittlesaints. She also works as the Root Director of Peacemaking at Mormon Women for Ethical Government.

In this episode, Sarah shares her surprise in being invited onto the show due to not having a particularly strong relationship with the temple—yet this was precisely why I wanted to have a conversation with her. As someone who has had my own challenges in my temple journey, and who sees and feels the struggles many around me share, it felt important to have a conversation about the reality that our temple experience doesn’t always fit our ideals.

Together we discuss the journey of making peace with your experience, how to create space for the diversity of experiences within a community, and the spiritual practice of embracing the unknown. Sarah shares about her work with Mormon Women for Ethical Government and what she has learned about peacemaking, the importance of drawing out differences, and allowing things to be unresolved.

Sarah has also written beautifully about covenants. Together we explore the “impossible task” of making promises to give your absolute all to God, and the possibility that maybe the point of making covenants isn’t to perfectly keep them, but to deepen our relationship with Christ.

Read Sarah’s essay “Covenants by Immersion” on WayfareMagazine.org.

Preorder her new book, The Bible Storybook: The Old Testament, at forlittlesaints.com

Listen to Sarah read her scripture retellings for children in Scripture Stories for Little Saints, a new podcast from Faith Matters.

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