ClobberBlog | Mormonism, Evangelical Christianity

Back in December, I announced that I was going to take a break from blogging about Mormon topics and interfaith topics and try to blog about more evangelical-centered topics. I’m not sure how well I made good on my promise. The truth is, every time I sat down to write about it, I just felt like so much of an amateur. I thought, “there is no way this will be compelling enough for anyone to want to read it.”

I think I’m very good at discussing how evangelical Christianity relates to Mormonism. I think I’m very good at discussing gender issues, whether they be in evangelicalism or Mormonism. I think the attention I’ve received along with the invitations to write and speak elsewhere on those subjects proves that. But when it comes to just discussing the theology and culture of my religion on its own, I’m not so good.

The thought finally occurred to me today that there’s a reason I’m so good at the former topics and not the latter. I began studying both Mormonism and egalitarianism when I was 16. I practically have an undergraduate minor in Mormon studies, and gender topics I’m very passionate about and have studied on the side for years. If you could go back in time twelve years and read my original musings on Mormonism, I think you would agree that they sucked. Since I’ve only been in divinity school for one year now, and in that time I’ve taken a grand total of one theology class, my theological musings are bound to need work.

I think it’s time to give this a shot in spite of my misgivings about my own abilities. I’m not going to stop blogging about Mormon-related topics, but I am going to make an effort to blog about evangelical topics much more often. For the record, yes, I want to finish my series on God and gender, and yes, I want to talk about inerrancy and some other issues that people have asked me to write about. I’m going to get there.

A while ago, Tim posted the following video at LDS & Evangelical Conversations about how everyone is a theologian. Apparently that includes even those of us who really suck at it.

Well, get ready. Bridget Jack Jeffries is now a theologian and you’re about to get some theology blogging.