Folks, the Brodies nominations are now open!! Nominate your favorite bloggers and other content providers, and nominate your own best work! (Also, get in your last-minute X-Mormon OTY nominations.) And remember, we’re not the only ones wrapping up 2013: Ziff did his annual round-up of funny comments from the Bloggernacle,…
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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!!
Opening the Brodie nominations and closing the X-Mormon of the Year Nominations!
We’ve got some great nominations for X-Mormon of the Year — you can continue to add nominations until we begin voting on Wednesday, January 15. And now it’s that time of year again to start collecting the nominations for the Brodie Awards!!! This is the fifth year of the Brodie…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Happy 2014 Edition!
Another year over, and a new one just begun! Naturally, folks are wrapping up the holidays, taking a look at what they’ve done over the past year, and planning for the future with goals! In that vein, we’ll be voting this week on the William Law X-Mormon of the Year…
Collecting nominations for X-Mormon of the Year!!
It’s that time of year!!! Time to chose the X-Mormon who had the biggest impact on 2013!! As usual, I have been keeping an eye out for candidates all year, and weirdly, this year I haven’t found that many. Maybe with the “Mormon Moment” winding down, it’s famous former-Mormons are…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Gay Polygamy Edition!
What an exciting two weeks it’s been!! But before digging into the links, I’d like to remind everyone that 2013 is drawing to a close, which means that it is awards time!! On New Years Day I plan to open the nominations for the William Law X-Mormon of the Year…
Merry Christmas!!
Folks, I am really sorry to have missed doing SiOB the other day — especially considering that it was going to be the gay polygamy issue!!! From the minute I finished work on Friday evening, I had a million things to do to get ready for Christmas! So, even though…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Who’s driving this train? edition!
True to his name, Profet anticipated this weeks hot topic in his piece highlighted last week!! In a nutshell: The CoJCoL-dS posted an article about race on its official website, and everybody is super-happy to learn that racist doctrines (like curses or restrictions based on skin color) aren’t LDS doctrines…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Family Christmas Survival Edition!
Those Christmas family gatherings can bring priceless joy, but can sometimes also involve treading in dangerous waters. Some have boundary problems deciding what to say (for example the first comment here is fascinating, but perhaps wouldn’t be helpful in some family Christmas Eves…), and some have still-open wounds. And even…
Unweaving the tangled web: Michael Oborn’s “The Complete Mystery of Matthew Alcott”
Do you ever wonder what’s in the secret vaults of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? Have you ever imagined what you’d do if you had access? Matthew Alcott was a humble archivist working for the church when some previously undisclosed documents caught his eye, including Joseph Smith’s…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Happy Thanksgivukkah Edition!
In a surprise move, the first day of Hanukkah fell on Thanksgiving this year! The Highchair Travelers provided some ideas on how to celebrate Hanukkah — and don’t forget to read the Hannukah story from the Bible! I assume you already all know how to celebrate Thanksgiving: You think about…