Another blogger has been threatened with excommunication! Kirk Van Allen criticized D&C 132 and was told by local leaders to delete or modify the post, or else! (Don’t miss FAIR’s 31-page rebuttal!) In addition to that story, Nearing Kolob has been doing some really interesting investigation into the changes in…
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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: Sucked into the vortex edition!
Remember the fun we had last week with creative apologetics? Well, this week we learned that it’s only fun and games until someone actually tries to follow the footnotes and gets sucked into the vortex! It started on a fascinating note as Runtu provided an detailed and specific analysis of…
Family and Death in Mormon Britain: Carys Bray’s “A Song for Issy Bradley”
A little girl lies dying in her bed as her family bustles about their individual activities. Once it’s too late, all of the other members of the family are left with reasons to blame themselves — any one of them could have made slightly different choices and prevented the child’s…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Don’t Apologize Edition!
This past week we were treated to what is possibly the most delicious new apologetic argument since the tapir! Take it away, Meg Stout: It all boils down to the one admission from Emily, where she responded “Yes sir.†when asked if she had engaged in carnal intercourse with Joseph…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Taking sides edition!
So, nothing dramatic happened in the Mormonspace in the past week, but the community became more polarized in the wake of John Dehlin’s excommunication. Runtu found Elder Holland’s discourse surprisingly defensive — and David T found it disingenuous — whereas Geoff B found it reassuring. Oh, and a stream of…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The crux of the problem edition!
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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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…