You only have until this Wednesday to get your vote in for William Law X-Mormon of the Year!! Right now it looks like David Tweede is winning (see his new post about the church’s toilet-cleaning video), but Kyrsten Sinema isn’t out of the game! She swore her oath of office…
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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: Goodbye to 2012 Edition!!
Guess what? The world didn’t end!! So I guess it’s time to celebrate and reflect upon the old year that’s passed! To assess relationships and work and happiness. And now we’re ringing in the new with great resolutions as well as new blogging directions and new books and new jobs….
Time to vote for X-Mormon of the year 2012!!!
It’s going to be a tough choice this year, folks!! We have some amazing candidates!! 2012 William Law X-Mormon of the Year Here are some details about the nominees: Kyrsten Sinema: The first person to get elected to US Congress while openly identifying as bisexual. Also possibly the only non-theist…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Last Gasp of 2012 Edition!!
If you had anything you wanted to be sure to do in 2012, you don’t have much time left!! It’s time for tithing settlement, and the year-end reflections have already begun! Mormons Building Bridges have been recognized as making an impact in 2012, as have many Mormon politicians who’ve been…
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 2. And now it’s that time of year again to start collecting the nominations for the Brodie Awards!!! This is the fourth year of the Brodie…
A Secular Mormon Christmas!
When I was in eighth grade, I wrote an essay for school about how much I love Christmas. I focused specifically on all of the fun projects I loved to do with my family — like making cookies and gingerbread houses and decorations and home-made advent calendars. I also used…
Collecting nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2012!!!
It’s that time of year again! Time to find which X-Mormon had the biggest impact in 2012! We have at least two really strong candidates this year: First off, Kyrsten Sinema, who was just elected to the United States House of Representatives. She is an ex-Mormon, and I think she…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Kristmas Kremlinology Edition!
The big news this past week is the new LDS website Mormons and gays. From what I gather, the most amazing part is that in the official church stance they admitted that some people are gay or lesbian (they even made reference to reality on this!) whereas before this site,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Love the Winter Weather Edition!
OK, today’s title is not related to this week’s posts (except maybe these). I was just sipping my tea and gazing out my window at the beautiful snow-covered roofs and trees, and thought: time for a relaxing afternoon of reading blogs! Andrew Sullivan wrote an interesting thought experiment: What if…
Hurting Relationships: Sophia L. Stone’s “Mormon Diaries”
In 2005 (at my little sister’s bridal shower) my mother rebuked me for purchasing my own “trashy lingerie†for my honeymoon instead of using the beautiful and elegant nightgowns she’d given me for the occasion. “You didn’t know I knew about that, did you?†she asked with a resentful edge…