Tuesday afternoon: I arrive at SLC airport to find a sea of smiling faces on folks wielding bunches of balloons and banners saying “Welcome Home Elder So-and-So”. I immediately think to myself: This is the right place! Tuesday afternoon (continued): I arrive at the campus guest-house, and set up the…
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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!!
Tuesday in Outer Blogness: Pioneer Day Edition!!
Hi Folks!! Today I’m blogging you from Salt Lake City, Utah — where I’ll be participating in the Sunstone Symposium! Anyone who is in town and wants to get together, please email me: chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com. Today is a special day in Utah, though so far…
Wednesday in Outer Blogness: By the numbers edition!!
I finished the most amazing Mormon family reunion — one of those vacations you have to take a vacation from, as my cousin put it — and now I’m spending a relaxing day at my SiL’s house getting caught up on what’s been happening in blogland in my absence. And,…
Reunion + Camp Quest Revenge of the Horde!
Hi everyone! I’m blogging you from my big (Mormon) family reunion in Minneapolis!! We’ve got nearly 70 people in attendence of the nearly 100 descendants of my grandparents (+ S.O.s), so it’s going to be a wild weekend! Between flights and Sunstone and this reunion, it turns out that the…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Community Membership Edition!
So, how many of you here joined in this year’s mass resignation from the CoJCoL-dS? It made quite a stir in the press!! In that other touchy Mormon statistic (money), Mike S came up with an intriguing strategy: NOTE: If you use Church accounting practices, you could NOT pay tithing…
Put on your own oxygen mask first
A while ago, we had a medium-sized crisis involving one of our kids. One of the first thoughts that raced across my mind was “Just when I finally thought I had my act together — now this!!” Then I immediately caught myself. Would I rather it happen while I’m drowning…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Exciting Discussions Edition!!
This past week there were a number of exciting topics that hopped from blog to blog — demonstrating that we’re all connected, and a discussion can hop over the boundaries separating the various LDS-interest communities!! That was itself one of the topics, of course: why/how different LDS-interest communities maintain different…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Gay parents edition!!!
This past week, a new study hit the press, showing that the children of failed mixed-orientation-marriages are at risk (compared to kids whose parents are in a stable relationship): It’s about current adults who grew up in mostly dysfunctional homes, where one of the parents may have had a homosexual…
Sunstone and Mormon Alumni Association Books!!
As you may know, the 2012 SLC Sunstone Preliminary Program is online — and I’d like you to especially feast your eyes on page 37!!! As you can see, I’m planning to test out a little cooperative book distribution network for the books I’ve discussed on this site. I’m also…
Sunstone and safe zones!!
The discussion has already started on one of the two panels I’m organizing at the Sunstone Symposium!! Have a look at the description and see if you can guess the problem: Do Good Online Fences Make Good LDS Neighbors? LDS-interest blogspace is divided into a number of different communities: the…