This past week didn’t have one big, over-arching Mo-related scandal (for once), but there were oh-so-many interesting tidbits!! Archeologists recently found the mass graves of the victims of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Mormon population numbers don’t add up, and the fight for women’s reproductive health in Utah just got…
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C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! See "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Julie Rowe Edition!
Whatever happened to that old-time LDS religion that was always on about how the end of the world is nigh? Probably some members like the newer, calmer CoJCoL-dS, but others are clearly unsatisfied with the weak porridge (and deletions) that the correlated corporate church serves up — they want the…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Return!
Hi folks, I’m back!! When we last checked in with the church PR leaders, they were huffily, grudgingly sticking with the Boy Scouts as their youth program (and continuing their policy of ignoring girls). On immigration the right-wingers also have the opportunity to be out-of-sync with a political position held…
Technical Difficulties Commenting
You may have noticed that the comments on this blog are not currently working. This is a bug, not a feature. If you are able to comment, please leave a comment below. 😉 I will try to troubleshoot this problem this week, maybe Wednesday. We may have some downtime for…
Wednesday in Outer Blogness: The perils of love edition!!
Not exactly Mormon related, but the hot topic of the past week-and-a-half was the hacking of Ashley Madison — exposing adulterers — including everybody’s favorite sleazy hypocrite: Josh Duggar. Apparently Josh Duggar apologised to his fans (and Jesus), but he should really be apologising to the LGBT couples out there…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: deferred edition…
Hey folks, on Sunday I’ll be visiting Milan — hanging out with my sister who is on vacation in Italy — and I have a day-trip planned for next Sunday as well. So I’d like to do a middle-of-two-weeks edition on Wednesday to make up for missing these two Sundays….
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Delicious magic rocks edition!
The news of the Seerstone has been out for more than a week, and it has led to quite a bit of reflection and information on seerstones and church history. Also some fun stuff, like old-timey temple recommend questions and a glimpse into the future. Someone even found an old…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Seerstone Edition!
What will the CoJCoL-dS think of next? Just a few days ago, they released pictures of the rock that Joseph Smith used along with the “Urim and Thummim” (also rocks) to “translate” the Book of Mormon: If the above makes you go “Wha…? What are you even talking about?, this…
Dare to Do Wrong: Alex Hansen’s “Their Works Shall Be in the Darkness”
What’s the fun of having a little power if you don’t abuse it? Especially if you’re a teenager. If you’ve served in one of the youth presidencies in a Mormon ward, you probably think they don’t really have the authority to shape policy in any original or interesting way, but…
The latest from the marvelous pen of Johnny Townsend!
If you like short stories and you’re interested in the lives of Mormons, you should be following the work of Johnny Townsend. Since he writes from an ex-Mormon perspective, believers often dismiss Townsend’s work as biased — or as a priori “an attack on the church” — but I think…