The Bible, the Church, and Spirituality
I’m on Bluesky now under the church historian custom handle bridgetjj.hist.church. This is different from the standard Bluesky handle, which would have been something like bridgetjj.bsky.social. But what even is Bluesky, and why are custom handles one of its best features? If you haven’t heard, there’s something of a social media migration underway at the […] Read more…
Here are the wedding vows that we used for our ceremony, as well as the sermon that my friend Katie Langston preached when she married us. Katie and I met online almost 10 years ago when I was mostly blogging about Mormonism, where she was one of the Mormon commentators on my blog. She is […] Read more…
15 years ago, I said, “I do.” 11 years later, I said, “No more.” Something stronger than pain engulfed me. Not just loss of happiness, but the loss of any sense of purpose. I had been Mrs. Interfaith Marriage for so long, I had no idea who I was or who I might be without […] Read more…
The God Makers by Ed Decker and Dave Hunt [November 1997; reviewed 12-27-1999] (Note: I was 17 when I wrote this review for Tekton, under just my initials “J.J.” for Jack Jeffries. I’m surprisingly still pretty satisfied with this review today. The final line originally read, “… kindling for the fire in case the lights […] Read more…
