As you may have noticed, the service that was hosting the Outer Blogness sidebar widget has vanished in a puff of smoke. Mojoey’s Atheist Blogroll was using the same service, and has plans for something new. We’ll probably use whatever service he finds (or founds), but that solution isn’t coming…
Author: chanson
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!!
Sunday in Outer Blogness: in or out edition!
This past week the blogworld spent a lot of time exploring that mysterious region we inhabit — not completely in the orbit of the CoJCoL-dS, but not totally outside the Mormon community either. Back before the Internet, it was so easy for members to divide the world into three neat-and-tidy…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Arts and Literature Edition!
It seems like we haven’t discussed arts and literature in a while, and then boom! A whole bunch of projects show up at once — including things that you bloggers at home can do! (Is this a Fall/”back to school” thing? Or something else?) First, non-fiction. The Mormon Lit journal…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Personal Thoughts Edition!
This week’s question: (courtesy of the new LDS Wave) Is Mormon Feminism an oxymoron? (Are they real Mormons?) Molly offers a list of small changes that would be a good starting point. Oh, and the ERA is back. In other questions about women’s roles, some SAHMs are feeling angsty about…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Can’t We Get Along? Edition!
I whole-heartedly support the advice not to burn too many bridges on your way out of the LDS church. But, on the other side of the coin, it’s hard when believers take your disaffection too personally … to the point of debating whether it’s offensive to order coffee in an…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: funnies and stories edition!
Shall we stop picking on the CoJCoL-dS’s new publicity campaign? I would but it’s too funny!! The latest is that the Mormon Times is calling working women the “warts” of Mormonism (hat tip). Go read the article for yourself (in case I’m misreading it; Andrew S. gives them the benefit…
Reader Question: If you dont want anything to do with the LDS faith, then why allocate so much of your time talking about it??
We’ve just gotten yet another comment asking the above question. I feel like we’ve answered this on MSP about a million times — it’s probably our biggest “FAQ” — but I don’t think we have one go-to post where people give their various answers and explanations. Mine’s a little like…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Funny Stories Edition!
As usual, we’ve had some fascinating political commentary this week in Outer Blogness, but — for fun — let’s start with the funny stories this week! Eliza Snitch recounts the three part tale of bringing home R-Rated movies to her BYU apartment. In other Zoobie stories, j-dog is not impressed…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Publicity and Gay Rights Edition!
I was going to call this one “surprises edition” since I’ve been on vacation in Italy — hence almost everything that happened on the Internet in the past fortnight was a surprise to me yesterday (when I finally sat down and read the 1000+ blog entries in my reader). But…
Survival of the Fittest: Mormon Style!
In the comments here and here we were reminded that — while Mormonism doesn’t work for a lot of people — there are some people that Mormonism really does work for. There are particular skills and personality traits that will help you thrive in Mormonism, and even if these traits…