OK, so I’m totally done with all of the righteous indignation I can handle for this week, what with that scary little lecture we had earlier. Fortunately, we’ve also had a bunch of positive ideas and feel-good stories in Outer Blogness and beyond! I’d like to start by highlighting some…
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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!!
A brave new definition of “free speech”
All of the levity over Mormon being the new black is a bit of a sideshow — obscuring the meat of what Elder Oaks is proposing: Those who seek to change the foundation of marriage should not be allowed to pretend that those who defend the ancient order are trampling…
“I’m rubber and you’re glue!”
It has got to be the most popular rhetorical trick in the bag these days! It goes something like this: Someone criticizes you (accusing you of, say, “X”), but you don’t want to have to answer the charge. You don’t want to even have to think about whether the charge…
All the good gossip
Between buildings we passed by a pharmacy that had in its display window a large poster advertising some sort of mysterious medication. The image on the poster was a soft black-and-white shot of a nude woman looking off into the distance with her breasts completely exposed to view. Read the…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Conference Edition!
Sorry about missing last week, folks! We spent the weekend in Boston (as you can see from the photographic evidence here and here), and I meant to get back in time to do my usual weekend roundup, but didn’t. Fortunately, it was conference weekend, so I didn’t miss much, and…
“Let’s talk about our relationship”: Ockham’s Razor, by Alan Michael Williams
Antelopes and giraffes have a few things in common, right? Four legs, both mammals. We consider them fundamentally different creatures. Now lets say a third animal comes running alongside them. One that resembles an antelope, but it also has a number of qualities that a giraffe has. Maybe it has…
Not some dorkazoid missionaries!
The next morning, after Elder Beaverton and I had done our usual personal study and companion study, we set off to go out tracting. As usual, no one wanted to let us in. To break up the tedium and frustration of it, we played little games to vary our door…
To stay and build up the kingdom
By the time Elder Beaverton and I got back to our apartment, it was past 18 heures (6 p.m.), so p-day was officially over, and it was time to get back to work. The cool thing was that our work for the evening was hardly work. We finally had a…
My First Sunstone!
I’ve just done a guest post on the Sunstone Blog about my first Sunstone experience!! Shortly after the conference, I was happy to see that two bloggers remembered the panel I organized as being a particular favorite! Unfortunately, neither one of them seemed to remember that I was on the…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Everything is coming up gay again!
Elder Hafen’s talk has certainly sent some ripples through blogspace! I would start with ECS’s research piece (correcting Hafen’s many citation errors). The Swearing Elders expand on one of ECS’s points, and the Third Wave Mormon gives a two-part point-by-point rebuttal of Hafen’s talk (as does Living with Mormons in…