Via Formspring: This may be silly but what do u think about the idea of adding on nurseries to busy temples? I think it would be a great idea so more ppl can work in the temple as well as ppl not having to worry about babysitting for temple trips. Thoughts? I loved the idea. [...]

That’s what Richard J. Mouw says. At this point, I’ll take it. I’ve seen plenty of articles that point out the technical meaning of the word cult, and how Mormonism fits into that little box because it is outside of the prescribed norm, but I find the discussion frustrating because it’s not what people mean when they [...]

I get to cross off another of my 101 in 1001. Click here to view my profile on Mormon.org. If you’re LDS and have one as well, link to it down below as I’d love to read it!

I’ve already covered how it works to deal with a baby during LDS worship services, but I wanted to bring it up again because we’ve reached an important milestone… T1 is entering Nursery! In LDS culture, saying this elicits high fives and congratulations from fellow parents. Before now, we were wrestling him down for 3 [...]

In the past I’ve tried to live-blog my thoughts on General Conference, but this year I decided to write up a recap with video links and note my favorite talks. If you’re new to That Wife and haven’t read about General Conference before, I wrote up an explanatory post about it here. The following talks [...]