Opening Exercises: my girls stretched on hard chairs, schooled hands still seeking their phones; leaders whispered, heads together, in the back; we settled into our common rhythms—every week the same.
Around the blogs
-Feminist Mormon Housewives runs not-one, but-two recent posts on how to answer questions and return to the church from inactivity. (Because feminists really want to undermine the church and all that.) -You already knew that Family History Centers were good for filling in dates on charts. (As in, “what’s the birth date of my great-grandfather?”) Bookslinger finds that they’re useful for getting another kind of date. Really! (Dating via genealogy centers — what are they going to think of next, baptism for the dead?) -Finally, don’t miss Eve’s poignant and thoughtful post about seeking for happiness in a “secondary” choice of education, after run-ins with the dreaded I-word — infertility. -Also: Mogget continues to blogget about Jesus’s death in Mark; Roasted Tomatoes proposes a thought expermiment about women and priesthood; some-other-blog introduces fall colors and a newly-poached sidebar feature (and they’re starting off on the right note; if you’re going to poach, I say, then poach well).
Cyrus and an Evangelical Theology of Mitt Romney
For those engaged in the perennially fun pastime of Mitt Romney watching, one of the more interesting places to go is the Evangelicals for Mitt blog.
Wow
When I was in college, I dabbled a bit with genealogy.
Second-language acquisition in children; or, This life is a school
I’ve enrolled my two oldest children in a German elementary school. They have until Christmas to learn German and catch up to the rest of their first- or third-grade classes before the risk of flunking out gets to be too high.
Breakfast Thoughts
I am eating an egg and thinking about all those women.
Times & Seasons Welcomes Jenny Webb
We’re pleased to have Jenny Webb blogging with us during the next two weeks.
Pet Peeve #146
“Reverent” and “quiet” are not synonyms.
Mormon Feminists: A Divided Allegiance?
I originally began this post as a primer on feminism–a post on feminist ideological inconsistences and boundaries, and what the term “feminism” means–but the discussion following my previous T&S post on feminism and the comments on this post on FMH have got me thinking about the issue of allegiances and how that seems to be the main sticking point when it comes to Mormon suspicion of feminism.
BYU Studies Blogs
A couple of interesting blurbs appear in the “Study and Faith” newletter accompanying the most recent issue of BYU Studies.
Inactivity and Rumors of Inactivity
A recent post over at FMH set off a firestorm (over 170 comments and still going) with the news that the writer’s husband had “recently attended a church meeting where the leaders discussed, among other things, the new statistic out from church-headquarters that estimates 70% of those raised in the church will go inactive/leave by the time they are adults.”
Hagar and Sarah/Publish or Perish: The Obvious Parallels
My husband is writing a book. Of course, this is nothing new. He is a professor. He is supposed to write books. Actually, he is required to write books if he wants a promotion.
The Emotional Component of Learning
I know I said I was going to make a follow-up post on the term “feminism� and why it might be useful, but I thought I’d make another post or two in the meantime on different subjects so people don’t get too burned out on the subject of feminism. This post is on two of my favorite topics: emotion and education.
Hypercorrection
In linguistics, hypercorrection is the kind of mistake you make when you’re trying too hard to speak correctly.
Where is Mormon Theology done?
UVSC and Utah State have growing Religious Studies programs. The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology will hold its fourth annual meeting at BYU in March 2007 (they are still accepting paper submissions). The broad title of BYU’s new Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship could be construed to include theology in its scope
The horror
I found this post today on a Craigslist San Francisco real estate forum:
Sunday School Lesson #38
Lesson 38: Isaiah 40-49
Keats on the Promise of Parochialism
Golden Ages tend to be rather parochial.
Healing the Breach between Feminists and Non-Feminists
One of the hardest things for me to deal with when it comes to feminism and the church is not directly related to any of the hot button feminist issues (i.e. not having the Priesthood, worrying about polygamy, etc). Instead, I have a tendency to get upset about the tension-filled relationship between feminists and non-feminists* in the church and how that affects my ability to be honest about my own life journey with other church members.
Jill Mulvay Derr on Eliza R. Snow (Smith)
This past Friday, my wife and I (and many other folks) had the privilege of hearing Jill Mulvay Derr speak to the Miller-Eccles study group about Eliza R. Snow Smith. The presentation was great.
Sunday School Lesson #37
Lesson 37: Isaiah 22, 23, 24-26, 27, 28-30
Welcome, Seraphine
I’m happy to announce our latest guest blogger, a bloggernacle regular who currently posts mostly under the pseudonym Seraphine. And just who is Seraphine?
Primary Lesson 36 Supplement
Finding Jesus’ Sisters
Here’s Matthew 12:46-50: