Near the end of June, my husband and I had the pleasure of celebrating our daughter’s fourth birthday—and with KatyJane, Kullervo, Katie L., and their children all in attendance, you can rest assured that it was a lively party. We had balloons, a bounce castle, lots of presents, pizza, and a Thomas the Tank Engine [...]

As I announced yesterday, Paul and I were interviewed by PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly earlier this summer to discuss interfaith marriage and divorce. That episode is embedded above with the transcript now available online, and it should be airing around the country this weekend.
Welcome PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly viewers! If you’re new to [...]

The other day, my daughter (who just turned 4 last week) picked up a glass china mug, pretended to drink from it, then shouted, “Mmm, COFFEE!”
I blinked at her in disbelief. You’ll recall that neither of us drinks coffee, so we don’t have it in the house, therefore I don’t know where she familiarized herself [...]

Interfaith marriages are rising fast, but they’re failing fast too by Naomi Schaefer Riley
(I know, what a diligent blogger I am, blogging about this two days after it was published.)
Here is the excerpt where I was interviewed:
Bridget Jack Meyers, an evangelical Christian who lives outside Chicago, married her husband, Paul, a Mormon, only after [...]

The decision to get a tattoo was actually a very spiritual one for me. Too corny to be true?
Well, let me back up a bit. I’ve probably wanted a tattoo since high school. Don’t ask me what first put the idea in my head because I don’t know. My mother had two or three discreetly-placed [...]

When I discuss my interfaith marriage story, people are often most curious about how we manage the children. While I’ve become more reluctant about discussing specific events from my personal life in public (it’s why I started the private blog), I thought I’d share this story just the same.
On Sunday, it was Harley’s turn to [...]

A new Mormon Expression Podcast is up featuring an interview with three faithful Latter-day Saints whose spouses have left the church.
I sat in on the recording of the Podcast and it was awesome. If this type of interfaith marriage interests you, by all means go listen to it.

One of the common Defender of the Status Quo™ arguments for barring women from the LDS priesthood centers around the idea that Mormon women already hold the priesthood through their husbands. Often proponents of this argument will quickly stipulate that this does not mean Mormon women can perform ordinances of the priesthood, nor are they [...]

(This post is an expansion of an idea that I have articulated in comments at Main Street Plaza and Exponent II.)
A couple of weeks ago, my J-term class was on break and I got to talking about my marriage to a Mormon with the other students in the room. People knew enough about Mormonism to [...]

Note: This story was originally told at Feminist Mormon Housewives in the comments on Reese Dixon’s post, “Mad Men is turning my husband into a feminist.” It follows a similar theme of how film & television have helped my husband see the feminist side of things.
You may have thought otherwise from reading this blog or [...]