Spencer Bagley wrote an interesting piece on his feelings of connection with Mormonism: I reached under the bench in front of me for a Book of Mormon, so I could think about a scripture that had recently been on my mind. I held the spine in my hand and was…
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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!!
A two-minute primer on Mormon culture
Seriously, if you want to know what Mormons are like, this little human-interest story sums it up a lot better than Kolob jokes and tales of the church’s corporate earnings:
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Chicken Edition!!
The most popular topic in Outer Blogness this week was the political act of eating chicken!! Andrew H pointed out that the Christians weren’t exactly following Jesus’ example or even doing themselves a favor: Suddenly, my religion is alien to me small, petty, reactive. My faith has lost its bearings….
Thursday in Outer Blogness: Sunstone Edition!!
Hey folks! I’m back from Sunstone and had a fantastic time!! If you want to know what you missed (or a review of what you saw), here are some recaps. I met lots of very very very cool people and posted my presentations. John Dehlin explained why he stays and…
Reclaiming Our Stories
This is the presentation I gave for the panel Who gets to say what former Mormons are like? which I organized at the 2012 Sunstone Symposium. I could see that she didn’t know what she was talking about just by the description of this book! Author needs to do her…
Criticism
This is the presentation I gave for the panel “Do Good Online Fences Make Good LDS Neighbors?” (which Andrew S and I organized) at the 2012 Sunstone Symposium. Criticism. Sometimes it tells you more about the critic and his own personal issues than bout the thing being criticized, doesn’t it?…
Liveblogging Sunstone: day 0!
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…
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…