The Brodies nominations are ongoing — please add your nominations here!! Here are the bios of the nominees: Nemo the Mormon (a.k.a. Douglas Stilgoe): YouTuber “Nemo the Mormon” was excommunicated by the CoJCoL-dS on September 30, 2024. In addition to his popular YouTube channel, Nemo is famous for activism within…
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C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! Follow me on mastadon at @chanson@social.linux.pizza or see "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!
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Collecting Nominations for the 2024 Brodie Awards!!
(The nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2024 are currently open here.) This year marks the fifteenth year of the Brodie Awards!!! I hope many of you are already familiar with how this works — but I also hope there are also some new people participating for the first time…
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Collecting Nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2024!!!
It’s that time of year again!! Time to decide which X-Mormon made the biggest splash in 2024!!! Just like every year, I’ll remind you that you don’t have to have gotten excommunicated during the year in question — but it doesn’t hurt your chances! So I’m guessing that this year…
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Meet Author Donna Banta!!
Latter-daily Digest just posted a fantastic interview with author Donna Banta!! Donna told some great stories about her life in and out of the church — many I hadn’t heard myself, even though we’ve been friends for years!! Absolutely worth a listen!
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Additional Love Languages?
The idea of “love languages” makes a lot of sense. Two people may love each other, yet have a disconnect on communicating that love because they express and perceive love in different ways. However, I’ve always felt that the standard set of love languages (from the original book by Gary…
Atheists
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Post-Mormon Media: Past, Present, and Future!
This is a short presentation I gave as part of the panel “Who Gets to Say What Former Mormons are Like?” at Sunstone 2024, organized by Chino Blanco, which was a reprise of the panel of the same name that I organized in 2012. When I set off for BYU…
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Congratulations Brodie Award Winners 2023!!!
Wow, there were some tightly-contested races this year!! Best YouTube channel got more than 1500 votes! Congratulations to the winners and a big thanks to everyone who participated!! Year-long awards: Best new LDS-interest site/blog/channel/content creator 2023: Floodlit.org Best LDS-interest YouTube channel 2023: Nemo the Mormon Best LDS-interest TikTok channel 2023:…
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It’s Time to Vote for the 2023 Brodie Awards!!!
The polls are here!! Thanks to everyone who nominated — I’m really thrilled that so many people are helping keep this venerable tradition alive — to help recognize/promote the best LDS-interest content of the year!!! Sorry about the delay (I meant to post the polls yesterday), but it was actually…
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Congratulations to 2023 X-Mormon of the Year: Adam Steed!!!
Please note that the Brodie Awards nominations will remain open until Sunday, January 14, and we especially need more nominations of new creators who started in 2023 — nominate here!! Congratulations to Adam Steed — 2023’s William Law X-Mormon of the Year!!! Adam won for exposing the “horribly unethical” therapist…
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It’s time to vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2023!!!
Before you vote on this, please be aware that the Brodie Awards nominations are still open and will continue to be open until at least Wednesday, January 3 (possibly until the weekend, depending on my schedule…). I’ve already started consolidating the categories and adding my own nominations to make it…