What a week! By now you know the excommunication axe finally fell on John Dehlin!! How could you not know? — Dehlin is a man with an impressive list of press contacts (see the transcript in the New York Times!). The CoJCoL-dS must have known that X’ing JD would just…
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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!!
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Congratulations 2014 Brodie Award Winners!!!
The results are in!! Here are the folks who will be taking home a coveted Brodie Award this year!! Naturally I especially want to congratulate the winners, but there were so many great nominations this year (and so many tight races) that I’d like to congratulate everyone who participated! (The…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Spotlight on John and Kate edition!
Before we begin, I just want to remind everyone that there are only a few days left to vote for the Brodie Awards — and some of those races are really close, so get out there and vote!! (Also note: the Wheaties/Tarefic winners were announced, and sadly we didn’t win…)…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Awards Season Edition!!
This is the worst possible week to have a double-edition of SiOB because the Brodie Awards voting has begun!! It’s time to give a little extra recognition to all of the very good works of the past year, so I hope you’ll take the time to click on the links…
Vote Here for the 2014 Brodie Awards!!!
It’s time to vote!! Here’s your opportunity to review all of the best works from 2014 and reward your favorites!! I added a few nominations since my earlier post so be sure to have a look at all the choices! The corresponding links are found below each poll. Year-long awards…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Weekend in Paris Edition
Folks, I’m going to have to give my apologies this time. we spent the weekend in Paris, and I thought I’d have time to do SiOB upon my return (otherwise I would have asked someone to fill in), but when we got home at 9pm, we were dead tired, and…
Last Call for Brodies Nominations!!
Wow, have we got a lot of great nominations this year!! Thanks to all who spent the time to review the works of the past year and nominate the best!! I have gathered up all of the nominations and worked out the (more-or-less) final categories — with remarks for you…
Congratulations to X-Mormon of the Year 2014: Kate Kelly!!!
2014 has been quite a year for Ordain Women founder Kate Kelly! After again asking to be admitted to the priesthood session of General Conference, Kate Kelly was excommunicated (in absentia) by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Kate Kelly’s excommunication received widespread attention in the news, in…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Countdown to Excommunication Edition!
Before beginning this week’s links, I want to remind everyone that the Brodie Award nominations are going strong! I will try to consolidate the categories and add my own nominations on Thursday (at which point you’ll have some more time to add your nominations in the final categories) — but…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Free Speech Edition!
You guys have surely seen the horrible story this week from France. Don’t forget that that a defence of Charlie Hebdo must also turn into defence of other blasphemers and apostates, like this blogger in Saudi Arabia who was publicly whipped. One way to “act locally” is to be seen…