We were advised by a lawyer-type person from a tenant rights agency that, according to Illinois landlord-tenant law, our case counts as “constructive eviction” and our lease is immediately void. He seemed very confident that ours should be an easy lease to break and advised us to send written notice to our landlords and vacate [...]

So, here’s some news on our living situation.
People from our respective faith communities have really stepped up to help us. On the night that our apartment started leaking, the first counselor in Paul’s bishopric immediately opened his home to us and we stayed with him for three nights. The counselor and his family were really [...]

A windstorm ripped off part of the roof of our apartment building yesterday. The ceiling in the living room and in our daughter’s bedroom is caving in and the fire department has declared the building uninhabitable.
So, it looks like we’re out of a home and looking for a new apartment.
We’re about to spend the rest [...]

[Hanks, Maxine, ed. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City, Ut.: Signature Books, 1992.]
Let’s get caught up today with Chapter 6, “Mormon Women as ‘Natural’ Seers: An Enduring Legacy” by Ian G. Barber.
“And the king said that a seer is greater than a prophet. And Ammon said that a [...]

[Hanks, Maxine, ed. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City, Ut.: Signature Books, 1992.]
Yup, late again, but here’s Chapter 5, “An Expanded Definition of Priesthood?: Some Present and Future Consequences” by Meg Wheatley.
For starters, the tone of this chapter is markedly more gentle than that of some of the [...]

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 [...]

(Part 2 of TBD)
Finding Jesus?
What does it mean for us as Christians when the method originally used to bring us into the fold would never work on us if someone tried the same technique today?
Having an aunt and an uncle and cousins living so near to me was an entirely new experience for me. I [...]

(Part 1 of TBD)
I get nervous whenever I’m asked to share my testimony of why I am a Christian. I get especially nervous when I’m asked to do this in meetings where other Christians will be giving their testimonies as the worry sets in that my testimony will be nowhere near as moving as theirs. [...]