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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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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Ripples of the Revelation Edition!
The big revelation — missions a year earlier for boys and two years earlier for girls — continues to dominate the discussion online! Good or bad for women? Many speculate about what the effects will be. (Others have some inside scoop) Meanwhile the young folks of the exmo reddit are already feeling the heat!! They’re even planning an underground railroad for the young people who will inevitably be railroaded into mission plans they’re not so sure about… Even this week’s Romney story was Read more [...]
Posted in Mission, Revelation, Sunday in Outer Blogness
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Missionaries and Modern Miracles Edition!
If you say a prayer (sort of) to find an important lost object and it works, is that evidence of divine intervention? On a related note, the exmo reddit is crowing about how they predicted the big revelation from conference. And now the LDS blogosphere is all abuzz with analysis of the change in missionary policy! (Not everyone likes missionary work.) Of course, everybody knows that the best part of General Conference is the cinnamon rolls. DMI Dave slammed “Cafeteria Conference-goers” who Read more [...]
Posted in General Conference, Mission, Revelation, Sunday in Outer Blogness
big “revelation” after all
chanson noted the rumors about a big “revelation” at conference this year. Turns out they weren’t entirely unfounded: Thomas Monson just dropped the age for missionary service for men to 18 from 19, and for women to 19 from 21. Now, I wouldn’t go so far as to argue that this is a “game-changing revelation,” but it is kind of interesting. As a sociologist, my immediate response is: “So they figured out they will lose fewer young men if they snatch them up right after high school, huh?” My guess Read more [...]
Posted in Mission, Mission Field
Three and a Half Years
That’s all it would take for Mormon missionaries to knock on every door in the US. Don’t ask me why, but the question popped into my head one day: How long would it take for Mormon missionaries to knock on every door in the US? I finally sat down and did some “back of the napkin” estimates and came up with the following numbers: Total Households in 2010 = 114,235,996 Total Households minus Mormon households = 112,735,996 (subtracted 1.5 million households) Missionaries = 20,000 Households Read more [...]
Posted in Mission, Mission Field
The Armpit of the Mission Field: “Heaven Up Here” by John K. Williams
When John got his mission call to Bolivia, it was like a joke come true. Before the letter came, he and his friends had a running gag that he’d be sent there — because it’s the clich worst-possible foreign mission (see here for a coincidental example). Then he really got sent there. And, as a faithful kid from a troubled family, he was determined to fix things by devoting himself entirely to the Lord’s work. Heaven Up Here is the complete story of Elder Williams’s mission, full of colorful (and Read more [...]
Posted in Book Review, Mission, Mission Field
Hot Halloween Idea – Mormon Missionary
Apparently the Mormon missionary look is in this year for Halloween, making Time’s top ten topical costume list. Anyone planning on dressing up? I’m out; too many bad memories. If we were smart, we’d start selling customized name tags here at MSP to make a profit off the interest in Mormonism. Interestingly, the articles about this haven’t suggested anyone is going to dress up as sister missionaries. Why isn’t that a hot costume? Time’s description of the Mormon missionary costume Read more [...]
Posted in Mission, Mission Field
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Missionary Encounters Edition!
It seems that some folks have been playing with the mishies this past week! (Not to mention old mission friends and baptism in general.) They’re fun, aren’t they? Here’s hoping this meme will catch on. The other big theme this week was Mormons and passive-aggressive behavior. That and alternative beliefs (once you’ve given up Mormonism). Meanwhile, the Mormon values voters were not happy with the use of the word “cult” — and are testing out the “I know you are but what am I?” strategy as Read more [...]
Posted in Mission, Sunday in Outer Blogness
If you can’t sell stuff on a bus…
Then why should missionaries be able to proselytize on a bus? Makes sense to me. Apparently it makes sense to Stagecoach bus lines in Lancaster England as well(hat tip to Peggy Fletcher Stack at the SLTrib for posting about this). There are some choice quotes from the article. For instance, the guy interviewed for the article had this to say: Rick Seymour was travelling on the 2A bus service from Lancaster to Morecambe last Tuesday afternoon, and heard a conversation between three young men. Two Read more [...]
Posted in Mission, Mission Field
How you know it’s “the Mormon Moment”
There have been a lot of news stories lately claiming it is the “Mormon Moment.” This claim is based on things like the Broadway play, The Book of Mormon, Glenn Beck’s rise (and fall), and the two candidates for the Republican nomination for President, Romney and Huntsman, getting lots of attention. These all seem like reasonable indicators, but I wasn’t really convinced that it was the “Mormon Moment” until I read the article Mormon Propositioned, in The Bay Area Reporter. Just for fun, click Read more [...]
Posted in Mission, Mission Field, pornography
Update on Mishies in Switzerland!
You may recall that recently Switzerland recently stopped the practice of routinely issuing visas to [foreign] Mormon missionaries (i.e. mishies from outside the EU). And — if you’re like me — this may have left you full of questions like: What will the CoJCoL-dS do??? Do they have enough European mishies to keep the mission going? Will they quietly shut it down? After all, Switzerland is an insanely expensive country, and I doubt they’re converting enough rich Swiss bankers to offset the cost Read more [...]
Posted in Europe, Mission, Mission Field
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