I am really excited to announce our theme for the week:  supporting our marriages when one spouse goes through a faith transition.  We’ve got some AMAZING guest posters everyday this week. 

I’ve wanted to do this topic for a while, but I kept putting it off because I kept getting really nervous to ask anyone to talk about this.  It can be a very sensitive topic, but an important one that isn’t discussed very much, so I’m extra grateful for my friends who have contributed.  I got so happy on Saturday reading through these posts because I think they are really going to help people.

Initially I set out to ask people of all different faiths whose marriages have gone through all different transitions (Christian to agnostic, atheist to Buddhist, whatever), but then I realized I don’t know that many people from all different religions, let alone people in marriages where one spouse has changed religions, let alone people I would feel comfortable asking to intimately discuss the details of their marriage through this transition for the internet. . . .   Soooo, what we’re left with is that all the posts are from Mormons or former Mormons.  Because you see, I’m Mormon (oh didn’t you know?), so I know a lot of Mormons.

But actually I think that for the purpose of discussing supporting marriage through a faith transition, Mormonism serves a good purpose.  Because the religion is generally all in or all out, there’s not a whole lot of room for doing Mormonism half-way.  So when someone stops practicing the religion, it’s a pretty big life transition.