Well, it’s been a week since my last SiOB — although this one (like last week’s) was supposed to be on Sunday. I could just switch this thing to Monday, but then it would start slipping to Tuesday, etc., and I don’t want to go down that slippery slope. This…
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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!!
Sunday in Outer Blogness: see no homosexuals edition!
This week’s big Mormon news story was Elder Bednar’s public claim that there are no homosexual members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! It was the same tired old claim that you shouldn’t label yourself (with labels that the church doesn’t like) and pretending like that’s somehow…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Inoculation edition!!
Well, they’ve finally done it! The CoJCoL-dS has decided to have a General Authority stand up in a public meeting and tell people to read the infamous essays!! (Are they getting desperate?) (If you’re not familiar with the essays, please see this earlier roundup with discussion of how the CoJCoL-dS…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Quiet for now edition!
Seems pretty quiet on the Mormon front this week. Ordain Women? Still pressing on. Worthiness interviews (where middle-aged men ask teens about sex behind closed doors) are still a problem. Kirby is preparing for his inevitable excommunication. Legalizing medical marijuana has some unintended consequences. And J. Max wrote an article…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Court of Love edition!
Perhaps you’ve heard — the CoJCoL-dS has decided to hold a court of love for Jeremy Runnels!! They had ironically scheduled it for Valentine’s Day, but it has been postponed. The fact that they might excommunicate Jeremy Runnels surprises me quite a bit. I’ve always believed that they excommunicate people…
Polygyny and Democracy
In my reading for the latest Sunday in Outer Blogness, I came across an interesting article about the differences between gay marriage and polygamy. It’s interesting because of the stuff the author gets right: Here’s the problem with it: when a high-status man takes two wives (and one man taking…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Gold standard edition!
First of all, please take the time to congratulate the winners of the Brodie Awards 2015 — and collect your prize if you won! 😀 (Of course now that it’s too late, I’ve just learned about some other books that might have been nominated…) Second of all, you have perhaps…
Sorry about the down time!
The good news is that Main Street Plaza is up and running on the new server! The current look-and-feel is temporary. I still have all of the old user-interface files, but I’ve been dragging them along from one server to the next since this blog started in 2007. I figured…
Congratulations Brodie Award Winners 2015!!!
The votes are in, and here’s the list of talented people and impressive works that won the coveted Brodie Awards this year!! Year-Long Awards for overall quality: Best New Blog 2015: Zelph on the Shelf Best New Podcast 2015: Naked Mormonism Podcast Best Discussion Forum 2015: r/exmormon Best Humor Blog/Site/Channel/Podcast…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Reacting to tragedy edition!!
Before we begin this week’s round-up, I’d like to remind everyone that you have only until this Friday to cast your votes in the Brodie Awards — and some of those races are really close!! I have one more announcement: I’m working on upgrading the server, so you may see…