You may know him as the host of the Mormon Stories Podcast. Perhaps you’ve heard of his studies on why Mormons question and on the quality of life for LGBT+ Mormons. Or maybe you’ve participated in one of his communities or have just seen him in his many media appearances…
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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!!
Last call for Brodies Nominations!!
Here are the final categories. Nominations remain open until Friday, January 22, 2016. Please keep in mind the following as you make your nominations: Categories with fewer than three nominations will be dropped. Please do not nominate any one author/artist more than twice. I occasionally move nominees to categories where…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Lord Has Spoken edition!
We’re right in the heart of awards season!! You have until this Friday, January 22, 2016 to get in your votes for X-Mormon of the Year — and the voting for the Brodies will begin the same day! Tomorrow I will post the last call for nominations, along with the…
The fine line between inspiration and madness: John Draper’s “A Danger to God Himself”
Mormons believe in a god that talks to people — a god that opens the heavens every now and then and picks a prophet to talk to. So, when a wise-cracking young missionary starts having visions, who’s to say whether or not they’re really from the Almighty…? John Draper’s A…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Vanilla ISIS edition!
We’re in the middle of awards season, so please take the time to vote for X-Mormon of the year, and to post your nominations for the Brodie Awards! Thanks in advance! 😀 (Also, I’d like to call your attention to the awards and best-of roundups of various other LDS-interest blogs.)…
It’s time to vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2015!!!
Note: Submit your nominations for the Brodie Awards! Wow, have we got an impressive set of X-Mormons this year!! Vote here: X-Mormon of the Year 2015 Here are some details about the nominees: Any Opposed : The organization that stood up and voiced opposition in General Conference (after the traditional…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Mormon Terrorists Edition!
Finally the Mormon news cycle has warmed up again! Some morons in Oregon apparently believe that launching a military assault, invasion, and occupation of a public building of the United States of America is a patriotic way of honoring (or defending?) the Constitution of… the United States of America. (Perhaps…
Time for the 2015 Brodie Awards nominations!!
Last week we started collecting nominations for the William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2015, and now it’s time for the biggest event of Main Street Plaza‘s yearly calendar!! It’s time to recognize the best LDS-interest content published and posted to the Internet in the past year!! These awards have…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Wrapping up 2015 edition!
Here we are at the last Sunday in Outer Blogness of 2015! Naturally, this means it’s time to start reviewing this past year and passing out the awards!! Nominations have already begun for X-Mormon of the Year — add your nominations here! And nominations for the Brodie Awards will begin…
Time to nominate X-Mormon of the Year 2015!!
It’s end-of-the-year awards time again!! As usual, we begin with the “William Law X-Mormon of the Year”! This year’s contest should be pretty exciting, with all the excommunications: John Dehlin, Marisa and Carson Calderwood, Rock Waterman, and Kirk Van Allen (not sure if he was finally X’d or not) —…