You may have heard that the New York Times published an article on female Mormon missionaries and how cool they are! Mormon women like it for its tone and accuracy: The tone was perfect—respectful without lapsing into the reverence or romanticizing a church publication so often displays for missionary work;…
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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!!
Sunday in Outer Blogness: No planet for you edition!
As cool as it was when the CoJCoL-dS dumped its racist doctrines, it was clear (even at the time) that there are disadvantages to giving the keys of defining Mormon doctrine over to the quorum of the anonymous website maintainers. Officially endorsing questionable apologetics on the Book of Mormon (like…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Gay Agenda Edition!!!
I am so glad to be living in the Internet age!! There is so much fun stuff that happens today that just wasn’t even possible before the Internet. Case in point, a Mormon lady posted about the gay agenda in the Disney movie Frozen — and the whole Internet blossomed…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Literally edition!!
You may or may not know this, but this year is the year (of the four-year-four-standard-works cycle) in which Mormons around the globe are studying the Old Testament. And it seems that all the cognitive dissonance from reading the tales of Adam, Noah, Lot, et al, came to a head…
The Mormon Open Letter!!
By now you’ve probably heard of the open letter to President Thomas S. Monson that has been making the rounds of the Internet. If you have not read it yet, I encourage you to go read it carefully, and add your signature if you agree. Personally, I am impressed by…
Congratulations 2013 Brodie Award Winners!!!
The results are in!! Let’s congratulate this year’s winners!!! Year-long awards for people and websites: Best New Blog: Church of the Fridge Best Discussion Forum: R/exmormon Best Humor/Satire Site or Blog: Ward Gossip Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog: Pure Mormonism Best LDS-Interest Audio/Video Channel/Series: Brother Jake Awards for Individual Works: Best…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: See you in court edition!
I want to remind you that you only have a few more days to campaign and get in your votes for the Brodies. But Brodies’ season has been overshadowed by an astonishing bit of news: Thomas S. Monson — the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: BoM DNA edition!!
The voting for the Brodies is off to an excellent start, with tons of votes coming in from the exmo subreddit and other places!! If you’ve been nominated and would like to win, you may want to send your fans here. And whether you’re in the running or not, please…
Through Abuse and out: Todd Maxwell Preston’s “Sacred Road”
My father was sexually abused as a boy. I found this out when I was thirty-five years old. Was I shocked? Not really – he was raised with violence and abuse, in a very dysfunctional system. The abuse was accepted as normal, I get that now. The fact that it…
2013 Brodies: Vote Here!!!
Check out all of these great pieces from 2013!!! You have nearly two weeks to read them and vote. Polls close on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 6am Switzerland time! ** There are some issues with the polls embedding — if you don’t see them, click on the category title to…