So, the first installment of my new rebooted version of SiOB is only a day late, so we’re off to a great start! you’d think that since the Pokémon Go servers have been rarely reachable this past weekend, I’d be more on the ball, but the thing is that I’ve…
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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!!
New Projects for Main Street Plaza and Mormon Alumni Association Books!
I have some exciting news for the readers of Main Street Plaza, Outer Blogness, and Mormon Alumni Association Books: We’re planning to become a publisher!! Our awesome first book should be appearing… at some date to be announced, hopefully not to far in the future. In anticipation of this new…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Women’s Edition!
I hope everyone enjoyed International Women’s Day, a.k.a. “Why isn’t there an International Men’s Day? — oops there is!” Day. There was an international strike (A Day Without a Woman), and we just got around to celebrating here in Zürich this past weekend with another Women’s March. The Women’s March…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Finally something Mormon edition!
Last year it seemed like there was a new LDS-related scandal or news item almost every week, but it looks like “the Mormon Moment” is starting to fizzle. It seems the CoJCoL-dS can’t compete with the level of irrational/wacky/terrifying that’s coming out of the White House these days! But this…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Personal stories edition!
Here’s a charming little story of making a connection across cultural boundaries: A moment later it spoke back in Chinese. His eyes widened. I showed him the button to press on my phone. He spoke into it, and a moment later it said “Yes, I am sad.” “Why are you…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Still not over edition!
For yet another week the CoJCoL-dS hasn’t done anything quite scandalous enough to overshadow the dumpster fire that the White House has become. Mormons are among the people swept up in this catastrophe. Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz came home to quite a crowd: I am generally a fan of the…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Latter days edition!
As if our biosphere weren’t in enough trouble last year, having an incompetent clown waving nuclear threats around for all to use as they see fit isn’t a step in the right direction. Oh, and there’s a chunk of ice the size of Delaware about to slide into the ocean…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Carry on edition!
The 2016 awards season has just wrapped up — please see this post to congratulate this year’s Brodie winners! Also note that the Wheat & Tares blog has posted their 2016 award winners here. It’s hard to talk about any kind of current events these days, given the tsunami of…
Congratulations 2016 Brodie Award Winners!!
Here are the results: Year-long awards for people and groups: Best New Blog/Channel/Podcast: Mormon Censorship Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast: Brother Jake Best Scripture Study Blog/Channel/Podcast: My Book of Mormon Podcast Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast: Naked Mormonism Podcast Best LDS-Church-Info Site: MormonThink Best LDS-interest Discussion Forum: r/exmormon/ Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor: u/fearlessfixxer…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: It can get worse edition!
Well, this has been one of the most horrifying weeks I have ever seen. Fortunately we have some lighter topics, like the Brodie Awards! You have until Thursday, February 2 to get your last votes in! The Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s performance at the Trump inauguration got mixed reviews. Fortunately not…