Awards
Lists of Brodie award winners:
X-Mormon of the Year 2012: David Twede
X-Mormon of the Year 2011: Joanna Brooks
X-Mormon of the Year 2010: Monica Bielanko
X-Mormon of the Year 2009: Walter Kirn
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Toxic Perfectionism
Evidently some mormon women suffer from toxic perfectionism. So on top of being the angel in the home, they are trying to be too perfect; keep a spotless home, cook a scrumptious, frugal, healthy meal, raise perfectly coiffed children. It’s not only mormon women who suffer from unrealistic expectations (of course) – Jerry Hall quipped: My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I’d hire the Read more [...]
Posted in Christians, Feminism, Women
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Ordination edition
chanson is on vacation this week, so I’m going to attempt Sunday in Outer Blogness. On the faithful side of outer blogness, things have been astir about female ordination. Not surprisingly, many faithful mormons disagree about this issue. Considering the last time feminists called for female ordination they were excommunicated, my hope is that this time will be different. Personally, I want to cheer the small victories, but it also seems a little like crumbs from the table… On the Read more [...]
Posted in LGBT, Sunday in Outer Blogness, Women
The Church vs. The Gospel
When I began questioning mormonism, my Dad explained that there was a difference between the church and the gospel. The church was made of people who were human, and the gospel was the kernel of truth within the church. He said that the mormon faith was the closest to being “all true” that there was. I heard this from other members as well. It was part of the push for people to distance themselves from saying “I know the church is true” in their testimonies. This answer was okay for awhile. Read more [...]
Posted in Christians, Mormon Culture, Mormon Doctrine, Prayer, Reason
Christmas Eve Service
Some years ago, I attended a Christmas Eve service with my grandmother. She converted to Mormonism as an adult, and was raised in a more traditional/ritual religion (Ukrainian Orthodox). It’s a religion where they make a big deal out of Christmas Eve. She liked attending services of other churches on Christmas Eve. She loved the music, the lights. When I was a teenager, my ward went to a different format for Christmas. I can’t remember if most Christmas celebrations would be a two hour Read more [...]
Posted in Catholicism, Catholics, Christmas, Family, Jehovah's Witnesses
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Pants on the Ground edition!
Chanson asked me to fill in siob this week. This week was going to be all about the pants, when a terrible tragedy happened Friday. I haven’t been watching or reading the news – my children are close to the ages of the children involved. It hits a little close to home for me. Many bloggers have weighed in on what happened, gun control, gun ownership and mental health care. Others aren’t ready to weigh in yet. I certainly understand that. It started a few weeks ago with a call to action from a Read more [...]
Posted in Sunday in Outer Blogness
And…The Book of Abraham is de-canonized
When I was growing up, I had a triple combination. This was a copy of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Abraham in one book. We studied the Book of Abraham in seminary, the same year as the Old Testament. I remember my seminary teacher actually built a cardboard replica of Urim and Thummim breastplate (and glasses) to bring to our class. So I was shocked to read the other day that the Book of Abraham is now an “esoteric” work. I know some faithful mormons who would also Read more [...]
Posted in Book of Abraham, God's Favorite Musical, kolob, Mormon Doctrine
The Happiness Factor
Over the years, I’ve watched former mormon blogs come and go. And posters on various former mormon boards join and leave. (Kiley recently talked about it here). From what I can discern, there appears to be a cycle that some former mormons run through. At first there can be a lot of emotions; hurt, betrayal, anger or fear. But generally, after some time, people stop posting. In the least, they stop posting about mormon culture, leadership, history, etc. Why is that? My theory can’t be Read more [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Deconversion, Divorce, ex-Mormon, Family, Mormon Studies, Moving On, post-Mormon, RfM
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Protest Edition
Chanson asked me to do the round up of posts this week. For the record, I think this process is more difficult than it looks (please bear with me stumbling through it). And Ill give out a shout out to the work she does each week an important part of the community, tying threads together. Yet she definitively deserves a break every once in awhile (just like all of us!). It has been a interesting week of protests, with the reddit and Wikipedia blackout(s) to protest SOPA and PIPA. Other blogs went Read more [...]
Posted in Sunday in Outer Blogness
Grow where you are planted
As difficult as it may be for some to believe, this is a statement I can agree with. It is/was an LDS statement originally said by David O. McKay**. From my understanding, it was meant to encourage Mormons not to feel as if they had to “move back to Utah”. My own ancestors flouted this doctrine, but it was common prior to David O. McKay becoming President of the LDS church. A person might convert to the Mormon faith, and then attempt to move to Utah, Idaho or Alberta. It’s part of the reason Read more [...]
Posted in Economics, LDS History, Mainstreaming, Mission Field, Utah
Would I have stayed as a liberal mormon?
The answer is yes. If I could have been a liberal, non traditional mormon, I might have continued to be mormon. There is no space for openly liberal mormon in the Utah LDS church. There certainly wasn’t when I left. I did not see then (over fifteen years ago) anyway to be a liberal, feminist mormon. I distinctly remember a conversation about temple marriage in my young women’s class. I remember saying that I knew I wanted to get married, but not necessarily in the temple. I remember seeing Read more [...]
Posted in Community, DAMU, post-Mormon
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