Author: Julie M. Smith

  • ‘And Many Other Women’ Part V

    Julie M. Smith

    I wrote my thesis on Mark 14:3-9, so there’s a lot that I want to say about it, but for now, I’m only going to talk about its relationship to Mark 12:38-44.

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Eighteen

    Julie M. Smith

    BMS: The People of Ammon MBM: Anti-Nephi-Lehies

  • ‘And Many Other Women’ Part IV

    Julie M. Smith

    Today I’m thinking about John 8:1-11, commonly called ‘The Woman Taken in Adultery.’

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Seventeen

    Julie M. Smith

    MBM: A New Convert BMS: Aaron Teaches King Lamoni’s Father

  • Thank You, Jana

    Julie M. Smith

    Today brings to an end Jana’s stint as a guest blogger. Thank you, Jana, for sharing a slice of your very interesting life and for your thoughtful posts. We wish you well in your writing projects.

  • ‘And Many Other Women’ Part III

    Julie M. Smith

    I sometimes have a beef with religious art because of the assumptions that the artist must make about the scriptures in order to complete her/his work. This is an interesting corrective. I have a poster-size version of it, framed, and I like it.

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Sixteen

    Julie M. Smith

    BMS: Alma’s Mission MBM: Alma’s Mission

  • Welcome Guest Blogger Jana Riess

    Julie M. Smith

    We’re excited to have Jana onboard for the next few weeks. Here’s her bio: Jana Riess is the Religion Book Review Editor for Publishers Weekly magazine, and is also the author of The Spiritual Traveler: Boston and New England and What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide. She is currently co-writing Mormonism…

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Fifteen

    Julie M. Smith

    I’m a little behind here because we took a break from our regularly scheduled Book of Mormon FHEs to have one on using kind words. (Care to imagine why?)

  • Calling All Bright Young Minds

    Julie M. Smith

    I have a unique opportunity and I need some help taking full advantage of it.

  • ‘And Many Other Women’ Part II

    Julie M. Smith

    Here’s Luke 11:27-28: And it came to pass, as [Jesus] spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God,…

  • ‘And Many Other Women’ Part I

    Julie M. Smith

    I’ve been trying not to post much since I have entered the Mentally Incoherent state of pregnancy (as evidenced by the fact that I somehow deleted this post after writing 80% of it–this is take two), but the comments from Ashleigh and others about women in the scriptures have tempted me beyond that which I…

  • LDS Art and Its Critics

    Julie M. Smith

    I followed Adam’s link in the sidebar to an article in Meridian Magazine, by their film critic Kieth no I did not spell that wrong Merrill.

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Fourteen

    Julie M. Smith

    MBM: Alma BMS: Alma Teaches and Baptizes

  • Stupid Internet Tricks

    Julie M. Smith

    We’re going to the Temple tomorrow, three hours away, and I was sitting here pondering where we might eat lunch (I’m extremely pregnant and pretty much living from one feeding to the next.) in a city I don’t know that well. So, I went to Yahoo! maps, typed in the address of the Temple, clicked…

  • Getting Philosophical about Food Storage

    Julie M. Smith

    The thing is: we don’t eat the kinds of foods that one can store. A large chunk of our grocery purchases consist of fresh fruit, frozen vegetables (not the square carrots!), and cheese. Whenever I feel all penitent and motivated to store more food, I always hit a wall due to the discrepency between what…

  • “Being Loyal Citizens”

    Julie M. Smith

    I have found that my children behave much better in Wal-Mart if we review the rules before we go into the store (no running, use inside voices, no pointing at morbidly obese people and saying, “Look, Mommy, that guy sure is fat!â€?). So, brief review: at Times and Seasons, we are polite, we avoid ad…

  • A Different Kind of ‘Likening’

    Julie M. Smith

    There is a great conversation over at that other blog about that classically difficult story, Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac. Among the many excellent comments, this one from danithew stood out to me: “In my Quranic Studies course today the professor talked about how one of the first things Islamic scholars used to do was look…

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Thirteen

    Julie M. Smith

    (Completely unreleted to everything but I just had to mention: my three-year-old noticed that the skin on the bottom of my foot is peeling and asked, “Mommy, are you molting?”) BMS: Abinadi and King Noah MBM: Abinadi Theme: We should be witnesses of Jesus Christ. Scripture: Mosiah 16:8-9 Resources: (1) Can’t take credit for this…

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Twelve

    Julie M. Smith

    (This is last week’s; I’ll have today’s later today. Sorry to get behind; I was out of town.) BMS: King Benjamin MBM: King Benjamin Scripture: Mosiah 5:7 Theme: We can follow Jesus Christ. Resources: 1. The June 1992 Friend has a flannel board for King Benjamin. 2. GAPK #307 3. Children’s Songbook #276 “Do As…

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Eleven

    Julie M. Smith

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  • How the Other Half Lives

    Julie M. Smith

    The only place online (besides T & S, of course) where I hang out is a message board for homeschoolers. The place is fascinating to me because it overcomes one of the biggest (in my opinion) disadvantages of Internet life: people with widely varying viewpoints are talking to each other over there. We all school…

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Ten

    Julie M. Smith

    MBM: There is a Christ BMS: Jacob and Sherem

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Nine

    Julie M. Smith

    BMS: A New Home in the Promised Land MBM: The Promised Land–The Nephites

  • Conflicted Thoughts about Hyper-Righteousness

    Julie M. Smith

    Over at Sons of Mosiah, Bob Caswell shares Bob Millet’s theory on why some members of the Church get so darn hyper about little things: “Millett had another story of a relatively new member coming to him and asking if it was normal for a bishop to require no facial hair in order for a…

  • Ethics for Three-Year-Olds

    Julie M. Smith

    So we checked out a retelling of The Little Red Hen from the library. For those of you not up on your kiddie lit, the aforementioned hen asks her friends to help with every step of the process of breadmaking (planting the seeds, tending the wheat, cutting and grinding the wheat, and baking the bread)…

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Eight

    Julie M. Smith

    My main hope with this lesson is that Children’s Protective Services doesn’t knock on the door while the three-year-old is tied to the chair.

  • Elder Haight Passes Away

    Julie M. Smith

    Elder David B. Haight passed away. (Link here.)

  • Book of Mormon Family Home Evening Lesson Seven

    Julie M. Smith

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  • Was Polygamy Good for Women?

    Julie M. Smith

    I think there is an unexamined assumption that polygamy in general is misogynistic, as if there were an equation in our minds and three or four or five women were needed to be ‘equal’ to one man in a polygamous worldview. I am wondering if we might explore that assumption.