ClobberBlog, 2008-2014

ClobberBlog, 2008 – 2014

January 9, 2016

ClobberBlog, a blog dedicated to Mormon-Evangelical interfaith discussion, was the personal blogging project of Bridget Jack Jeffries (formerly Meyers) from July 14, 2008 through June 25, 2014. It started at Typepad in July 2008:

Then moved to WordPress.com in August 2008:

Then got its own domain and became www.ClobberBlog.com sometime in 2009:

Before coming to rest in this final form:

The registration came due in July 2015, and since I had not blogged there in over a year, I decided it was time to retire the blog and not pay to keep it up anymore.

Over the course of its run, ClobberBlog was mentioned in The Washington Post and linked to on the PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly site. I published a well-received editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune, a review of the NIV-2011 in Priscilla Papers, and an article on evangelical feminism and outreach to Mormons in Mutuality. It was a good run, friends were made, and fun was had.

In May 2016, I completed an MA in History of Christianity in America at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. In June 2016, I became the first ever non-Mormon participant in the Maxwell Institute’s annual Mormon Theology Seminar. In June 2018, I re-married to a loving, supportive evangelical man who has been a stepped-up father to my first two children, and his love has given me new perspective on just how unloving and abusive both my childhood and my first marriage were. I don’t think I ever knew that love and relationships could be peaceful, mutual, and respectful like this. We had a child together (my third and his first) in May 2020, and in August 2021, I began a PhD in Theological Studies (Church History) also at TEDS, where I am currently enrolled. I hope to complete my PhD by May 2026.

If you’re here because you think ClobberBlog sounds like a great name for your new blogging project, please know that you have my permission to register the domain and use the name with my blessing. (Well, okay, you might not have my blessing if you’re anti-Christian… or a Trump supporter… but, the name is all yours just, the same.😉.)

If you’re here because you enjoy my writing and you wanted to know if I’m still around, you’ll be pleased to know that I’m still occasionally writing over at:

Weighted Glory: The Bible, the Church & Spirituality

That blog is dedicated to evangelical Christianity with rare mentions of Mormonism.

When I do mention Mormonism, you can occasionally find me blogging at:

LDS & Evangelical Conversations
Worlds Without End: A Mormon Studies Roundtable

I am also doing some academic publishing, which you can keep up with on my Academia profile.

Finally, if you’re here because you got “clobbered” by me and we got into it once upon a time, and you were hoping for news that life isn’t going well for me, I just wanted to say: I’m sorry about our history. I was not always in an emotionally healthy place when I was running ClobberBlog, and I did not always treat people with the respect that I should have. I am in a much healthier place now and enjoying a quiet, drama-free life, so I generally avoid Internet debates.

That said, if you came to leave me a bullying comment like the ones below, clearly, you are not in an emotionally healthy place, either, and I hope you find healing like I did.