So, I’m starting on two more posts for this series: a post on how Paul gets along with my family and a post on how I get along with his. We’ll do my family first.
The Jeffries-Godley Family
Didn’t my mother have the best maiden name ever? Anyways, my mother’s family is mostly from Arkansas while my [...]

I feel frustrated tonight. I’ve just finished reading Bridging the Divide: The Continuing Conversation Between a Mormon and an Evangelical by Dr. Robert Millet and Rev. Greg Johnson, and within it was this passage (p. 101):
Question: You both advocate the need for greater understanding and friendship between persons of different faiths. Do you draw the [...]

Note: This is part 5 of a multi-part post. See the end of the post for links to the other parts.
This part of my interfaith marriage series has been some time in the making, largely because I have a difficult time writing about such a painful experience in my life. I also have a hard [...]

UPDATE 3/28/2009: “The short bus rides again” — More abuse and rampant stupidity from the inhabitants of CARM’s Mormonism forum.
In the Beginning…
September, 1998. I was a 16-year-old girl starting my junior year at a new high school and had finally talked my parents into purchasing a computer that could access the Internet, something that would [...]

When I was thinking of blogging about interfaith marriage, one of the first things I did was a Google search to see if there were any other people out there sharing their LDS interfaith marriage stories. The only one I could easily find on the Internet was an article that appeared in the St. Petersburg [...]

A number of interesting searches found hits on my blog on Friday and Saturday since McCain announced little-known Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his VP pick. Well, actually, it’s pretty much just the same search worded slightly differently:
sarah palin mormon
sarah palin mormon?
is sarah palin mormon
“sarah palin” mormon
sarah palin + mormon
sarah palin, mormon
palin for vp mormon
sarah [...]

Note: This is part 4 of a multi-part post. See the end of the post for links to the other parts.
So, we got married. I wish I had some exciting stories for you about the wedding, but it was pretty simple. We did the ceremony at my church and the reception at an LDS church. [...]

My first post on the matter attempted to cover several things: namely, when it comes to miraculous workings of the Spirit, I have the heart of a believer and the mind of a skeptic. I believe in the possibility of speaking in tongues in the modern day, but so far I have not seen firsthand [...]

The charismatic movement. Speaking in tongues, laying on of hands, miraculous healing. Weird stuff with people claiming to be knocked down by the Holy Spirit or pinned down, held in a trance for hours. You know what I’m talking about. Folks who know little of the charismatic movement and are cynical towards it would add [...]

Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it. Web sites like MySpace and FaceBook make it unbelievably simple for stupid teenagers to have a decent-looking personal web site. No knowledge of HTML necessary, no mastery of tables required. You just need to know how to spell your own name and have a free e-mail [...]