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…
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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!!
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…
Time to vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2014!!!
Thanks for all the great nominations, folks!! Now it’s time to vote!! Before we begin, I’d like to remind everyone that “X-Mormon of the Year” is not a lifetime achievement award — it’s for the X-Mormon who had the biggest impact in 2014. We might consider adding a lifetime achievement…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Keeping the myth in Smythmas edition!
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…
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…