Mutuality, the quarterly magazine of Christians for Biblical Equality, published a review of Fireproof by Luke Finsaas in their latest issue. Here’s what Finsaas says about the film’s portrayal of gender roles:
The film puts up a veil of egalitarianism. For instance, Caleb’s mother wrote (or first used) ‘Love Dare’; Katherine has a good job (though [...]

So, this is what my Trinity class schedule will probably look like in the Fall:

Course #
Hours
Name
Teacher

CH 5060
3.0
American Church History
Woodbridge

OT 5000
4.0
Intro to the Old Testament
Beitzel

ST 5102
3.0
Theology II: Christ, Man, Sin & Salvation
Sung

CH 8911
1.0
Colloquium in Historical Methodology I
Manetsch/Sweeney /Woodbridge

ID 5080
0.0
Formation Group
Sweeney

Like my table? Yeah, that’s a nifty HTML table. /flex
This schedule would put me in classes from [...]

I have done a guest post at LDS & Evangelical Conversations on kids in church, which I know is such an exciting topic that everyone will be dying to talk about, so I’m telling you about it here.

Nothing else at BYU has surprised me except him. I knew I was gonna meet professors like [Hall, Welch, Parry & Ricks], and I knew I was gonna meet cool, open-minded Mormons like Adam & Nick & Julie & Kristi. I even knew I’d meet professors like Keller. But I never thought I’d meet someone [...]

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Ah, yes, there is little that can distract the Willow when she’s on the hunt for the mighty syllabi.
~ Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Ep. 7×05, “Selfless”

I’m a little like that. My Multnomah application is almost done, but I’m pretty sure that I want to go to TEDS, so I’m going to make my tuition [...]

It happened yesterday. My husband was getting ready to head off to the LDS ward, I was about to go to my church’s monthly special prayer & worship meeting, when I saw him tying on a tie. THAT tie.
I don’t even care that it’s a holiday tie and the current season is spring. That thing [...]

… for the LDS church to pay some attention to interfaith marriages. The current gender ratio in the church is 44% men & 56% women. That means 12% of the church’s membership and 21% of the church’s women have no chance of marrying in the temple unless more men are converted. That’s over 1 in [...]

What’s worse, thinking you’re being paranoid or knowing you should be?
~ Aaron, Primer

It was a nice afternoon today. Harley was down for a nap, Paul was working diligently at one of his sketches, and I decided to take a walk to the McDonald’s three blocks from our apartment building. I always try to walk somewhere [...]

This journal entry is dated Thursday, January 9, 2003. I had a tendency for dramatization in my journaling that kind of makes me wince to read now—I was 20 years old and still held to some kind of self-centered belief that the weight of the world was on my shoulders alone or something—but I think [...]