The awards season is off to a great start! We’ve got lots of great nominees for X-Mormon of the year (the voting will start this week), and nominations for the Brodies have begun!! This is your cue to review your favorite posts, etc. from 2014 and help them get a…
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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!!
Collecting Nominations for the 2014 Brodie Awards!!!
Nominations for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2014 are going well — 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!! As usual, the precise list…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Happy New Year Edition!
It is time once again — in this pleasant holiday season — to see what people in the world of LDS-interest discussion are talking about! Like the importance of the virginity of Mary. The Expert Textperts put up a faithful holiday message referencing a Christmas song that I like for…
Time to nominate X-Mormon of the Year 2014!!
It’s awards time again!! The first award on our list is the William Law X-Mormon of the Year award!! I think that 2014 has one very obvious candidate. But to keep it sporting, let’s try to nominate a few others as well. I’ll add my own nominations if necessary. Let’s…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Merry Christmas Edition!
Christmas is on the way, and the flow of analysis about the CoJCoL-dS continues! Lizeverything explained why the church’s statement on race isn’t sufficient, and Andrew S gave some further analysis of Mormonism’s race problem: Sadly, the Mormonism of yesteryear was at least consistent with itself. As I discussed before,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Torture Edition!
This week Mormons are in the news again, and not for something terribly flattering. A certain report about the US Government (particularly the CIA) torturing people hit the press, and two of the masterminds behind the torture are faithful Mormons. Noredseariver summed up the problem: “Human Rights Lawyer = Excommunicated;…
An Ode to Life and Love: “Free Electricity” by Ryan Rhodes
Everything was suddenly different, but what had just happened would not fall into place in my mind. The circuitry had never been laid for this — like learning a foreign language. The verbs were reversed with the nouns and the vowels were crashing into the consonants and every adverb and…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Server Failure Edition!
Yes, we had a bit of a server problem. Not here at Main Street Plaza, fortunately! But rather at the ol’ day job, the one that pays Main Street Plaza’s server bills. It wasn’t that big a deal, but… with my other jobs (making sure my kids bathe and get…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Black Friday Edition!
Sadly, this week world news finally pushed Mormon news off the center stage, with a new reminder that the US justice system has a very serious race problem. Take it away Andrew S: It happened all over again with Mike Brown. I joked once that since I follow the Word…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Empire Strikes Back Edition!
Last week our beleaguered church was mired in a horrible public-relations fiasco of its own making. Now, what do you think a wealthy corporation with an army of PR hacks would do in this situation? Leave well enough alone? Learn something from their errors? Take the good old-fashioned advice of…