We have a fantastic crop of nominees this year!! There are more books this year than ever! As you’re going through and voting for all of your familiar favorites, I encourage you to check out some of the ones you haven’t heard of yet. I do every year, and the…
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Congratulations 2024 X-Mormon of the Year: Nemo the Mormon!!!
It was a tight race this year!! …just kidding, of course — Douglas Stilgoe (a.k.a. Nemo the Mormon) won by a landslide. In addition to making entertaining content on his YouTube channel, Douglas has been a tireless advocate for positive change within the CoJCoL-dS. He even flew to Fairview, Texas…
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Gathering Nominations for the Brodie Awards 2024!!
Voting for X-Mormon of the Year 2024 is underway!! Cast your vote here!! We started collecting Brodies nominations about a week ago, but to make it simpler for you to add your own nominations (and even your own categories!), I like to create a post that shows the current nominees….
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Time to Vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2024!!!
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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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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What Fills the Void When Church Leaders Sow Division?
Tell-tale signals of Mormonism seem to be fading faster than the label President Nelson rejects. In a 2022-2023 survey, fewer than half of Church members born after 1965 said they were actually wearing their garments on the day they answered the question. A 2016 survey found that only 45% of…
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Heretic Review: If only…
I went to see Heretic on Sunday, along with some fellow heretics. A group that included one non- and five ex-Mormons, two of whom were returned LDS missionaries. We were not disappointed. The critics were a little. Manohla Dargis of the New York Times wrote: “Even as the movie dribbles…
God the Monster
This summer, when I posted on X about my lifelong conviction that the god of Mormonism is a moral monster, someone told me, very helpfully and completely accurately, that I would love God’s Monsters by Esther Hamori. God’s Monsters is the first work of religious scholarship that has made me…
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Another Mormon Horror Story
Horrors! Another Mormon-themed film is about to come out. And this time it’s an actual horror story. Heretic, written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, and starring Hugh Grant, debuted at this year’s Toronto Film Festival to mostly favorable reviews. At first glance, the film’s premise seems compatible with…