I’d like to do SiOB a little early this week because it looks like this conference is going to generate some interesting news. That news will be rolling in over the next few days, so let’s wrap up this past week’s posts separately before the news begins! (To give you…
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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: New words edition!
Maybe I should call this one the “smacked down further” edition. After last week’s smackdown, many others followed the church’s lead and added their own smacks (and critical analysis). This leads to this week’s first new word: instrayability — the Mormon equivalent of infallibility — and it seems to extend…
What doesn’t kill you makes you… what?
All this talk of Ordain Women has brought an interesting memory bubbling to the surface: It was the last summer my family went to Camp Many Point — probably 1989, the summer before I set off for BYU. I loved going to that camp. It was a beautiful tract of…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Smackdown Edition!!
Do you know how big 2% of Florida is? Check out this helpful post for some perspective. And this past week the corporation that owns it took some time out of its busy schedule to swat a couple of (comparatively) puny groups: Those who were suing them for fraud and…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Cornucopia of scriptures edition!!
The fraud trial of Thomas Monson has begun! Like it or not, I hope you have your popcorn ready!! Looks like the CoJCoL-dS kind of blew it off, banking on the case getting quickly dismissed, but that didn’t happen. It would have been incredible if Monson had gone to court…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: What women want edition!
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;…
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…