It’s time to vote for all of your favorite X-Mos!!! The polls will remain open until Wednesday, January 14th at 8:00 a.m. Switzerland time. This year no intermediate results will be displayed because the winners will be announced live on the Mormon Discussion Podcast!! Top nominees will be included in…
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Last Call for Nominations!!
Edit: The polls are up and the nominations are now closed. Vote here!!! X-Mormon of the Year 2025 (This is for real life actions or activism and/or making the normie news cycle in 2025. For content creation alone, nominations will be moved to the “Best overall social media personality”.) Year-Long…
Feeling Spiritually Defrauded By Spiritual Fraudsters (Unrighteous Dominion)
I didn’t leave the COJCOLDS because I felt deceived when I learned the truth about church history. For one thing, I grew up knowing a lot about church history because it was also my family history. When I was little, we used to go to family reunions for all the…
Awards
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2025 Awards Season Schedule
This year, for the first time ever, the winners of the Brodie Awards and Ex-Mormon of the Year will be announced live on a popular podcast!!! The Mormon Discussions Podcast has generously offered to host the awards ceremonies (as I announced on their podcast last week): So this year we’ll…
Mormon Stories and John Dehlin’s Mystery Cycle
Over the past five years or so, I’ve tried every so often to track down a particular conversation here at MSP about one of John Dehlin’s failures to tamp down a crisis he created for himself. Something about it nagged at me, and I wanted to review it. I was…
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Collecting Nominations for the 2025 Brodie Awards!!
Nominations are still open for X-Mormon of the Year 2025 — add your nomination here!! Welcome to the opening of the 16th annual Brodie Awards season!!! I hope many of you are already familiar with how this works — but I also hope there are also some new people participating…
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Collecting Nominations for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2025!!!
It’s awards season again!! Time to recognize and celebrate the most-talked-about Mo’s and ex-Mo’s of 2025!! As usual, we start with X-Mormon of the Year — for the X-Mormon who made the biggest splash in 2025!! Just to review the guidelines: “X-Mormon of the Year” is the award for real-life…
Meetings
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Fifteen Years Later
In the summer of 2010, I moved my family from England to Northern California. In the process I made the decision to not seek out the church which I had been a member of my entire life. I was done with Mormonism and wouldn’t be going back. Although blessed with…
Gay Agenda
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A pox on the PoX policy, ten years on
November 5 marks the 10th anniversary of the Exclusion Policy, which expanded the definition of apostasy to include gay marriage. Yes, committing to a same sex partner was committing a sin worse than adultery, rape, or murder. Same-sex transgressors were to be excommunicated; their children were ineligible for baby blessings…
Book Review
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Review of “Filling Empty” by Randy C. Watts
Filling Empty, as the title promotes, is a collection of ideas to help those that have lost loved ones and are trying to navigate the rocky waters of grieving. Watts, a former member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, poignantly and painfully discusses his experience in trying…