Sam Young — a former Mormon Bishop — has spent the past few years shining the light on a shameful practice within the CoJCoL-dS: having untrained lay bishops give one-on-one, closed-door interviews with children and teens in which bishops are expected to ask the minors about their sexual experiences (chastity)…
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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!!
It’s time to vote for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2018!!!
Wow, we’ve got quite a list of X-Mormons to choose from in 2018!! Wm. Law X-Mormon of the Year 2018 And here are the descriptions of the nominees: McKenna Denson: In March of 2018 she confronted her former mission president and secretly recorded him admitting to sexual assault against her…
Collecting Nominations for the 2018 Brodie Awards!!
The nomination process for X-Mormon of the Year is underway — please be sure to get in your nominations before next weekend when the voting begins. Now, it’s also time to start on the Brodie Awards!! The Brodie Awards are a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra…
Collecting nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2018!!!
Hey folks — it’s that time of year again! Time to decide which X-Mormon made the biggest splash in 2018!! Sorry to be getting started a little late this year — maybe it’s just that the likeliest candidate has never been more obvious. I’m not going to say who I’m…
Yours truly on Mormon Happy Hour!!!
Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Main Street Plaza, the Brodie Awards, and Mormon Alumni Association Books!! I have just made a guest appearance on the always-entertaining “Mormon Happy Hour” Podcast. With host Colleen, in addition to discussing my LDS-interest projects, we did a…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Conference of Changes Edition!!
So, another General Conference has come and gone, and this one had some interesting announcements. The worst item right out of the gate was from Dallin Oaks, who explained that LGBTQ advocacy comes from Satan. Also Satan…? Nicknames! The CoJCoL-dS is apparently really serious about rebranding away from the nickname…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Youth of Zion Edition!
Perhaps you’ve heard the news: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has begun excommunication proceedings against Sam Young, with the following charges: Encouraged others to vote opposed to Church leaders. Organized more than one public “action” that expressed opposition to the Church or its leaders. I guess it…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Hoax edition!!
OK — it was a few weeks ago now — but I think the most interesting recent bit of Mormon news was the hoax apology from the CoJCoL-dS (apologizing for the CoJCoL-dS’s history of racism), actually written by Jonathan Streeter. The go-to analysis of it is by Zandra Vranes of…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Podcasts edition!
There are so many amazing LDS-interest podcasts these days — I’m really looking forward to the day I can cut back my hours and listen to them all! This morning I took the time to listen to a couple of them: Radio Free Mormon has been doing a cloak-and-dagger series…
Good and bad life-advice from the CoJCoL-dS
It’s a lazy, sunny Sunday, and since I just got back from a long nature-walk with my family, it’s time for some relaxing fun. Let’s analyze the good and bad advice in this latest doozy from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints: Sister Oaks’s Experience Dating an Apostle…