… 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 [...]

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 [...]

Choosing a translation of the Bible to use in an LDS-evangelical interfaith household is one of those things that could have been difficult. Some Mormons are outright paranoid about other translations of the Bible. When I first began studying the church, one of my LDS friends was quick to point out to me that all [...]

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 [...]

I got a question in the comments a little over a week ago from someone named Sean. Sean, I hope you don’t mind me turning your question into a blog post, and I’m sorry I did not answer sooner. I had to mull this one over and talk to my husband about it. Here’s the [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Note: This is part 3 of a multi-part post. See the end of the post for links to the other parts.
With my engagement set, I began doing my best to prepare for how to handle an interfaith marriage to a Mormon. My first move was to start talking to other people who had done [...]

Note: This is part 2 of a multi-part post. See the end of the post for links to the other parts.
Before I can continue the story of my interfaith marriage, I need to briefly establish a few of my positions on the LDS faith:
1) I disagree wholeheartedly with many of the defining principles of LDS [...]