Chris Smith reminds us that the due date is fast approaching for presenter proposals at this year’s SLC Sunstone Symposium! The theme this year is Zion’s Sisterhood: Celebrating Mormon Women’s Contributions to Church and Culture. I’m dying to go myself — since for once I’ll actually be in the U.S….
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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!!
And now for some real family history!
That’s right, you no longer have to settle for silly second and third-hand stories about the Aurora Branch. Now it’s time to hear about it from the horse’s mouth! What do you remember about those days? Climbing the stairs to the second floor of the Odd Fellows Hall where the…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Dead and the Living Edition!
The buzz this week was all about how President Obama’s dead mom has been let out of spirit prison (or something like that). I ought to be dutifully rounding up every single post on the subject, but — no offense — everybody said exactly the same things they say every…
It’s Time to Play: Anti-Mormon… Or Not?
Here’s my crazy theory about the problem with Mormon Literature: It’s not that most Mormons want to read something “clean” and uplifting. It’s that the folks who want only clean and uplifting reading are so worried about the possibility of reading or supporting something potentially “anti-Mormon” that they’ll avoid LDS-interest…
Sunday in Outre Blogness: Lazy Edition!
You may recall from last week’s episode that some commenter mercilessly sucked me into reading The Authoritarians, which has cut into the Sunday morning free-time that I normally spend finding intricate and obscure connections among the posts of Outer Blogness from the past week. And, sadly, it wasn’t one of…
Exmo Arts-n-Lit Roundup!
Who wants to swap some stories? Multimedia: The exmo documentary In the Shadow of the Temple is now in the preview for focus groups stage! And our friends at Mind on Fire have added a regular video/podcast feature. Exit Stories: The Lyoness has recently started a whole blog devoted to…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Parade of Patriotism Edition!
Now, let’s just dispense with the esoteric discussions on the true dirty definition of “tea-bagging” since the tea-baggers are just patriotic Americans who don’t like taxation without representation, and if your favorite candidate fails to get elected one time, then the patriotic thing to do is, well, secede from the…
My Tribe
I originally wrote this as a guest post for the popular secular-Jewish blog “Lubab No More.” Sadly, Lubab No More is no more, so I’m reposting the essay here, for reference. Have you ever had an admirer who watches you from afar, looking for cues and good ideas to emulate?…
Eternal Boredom
I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw this “Mormonadz” (apparently one of the result images from Monday’s quiz). It reminded me of my infamous “why I hate church” article from the Student Review. But it makes me wonder: Does the Mormon church service have to be so boring? I…
A Story I Never Tell Anyone (conclusion of OH)
In the morning, I wanted to go talk to Rex again. Fortunately he was available for a chat just as he had been the day before. “Well, it’s official,” I said. “Lynn was right. The girl I like, Andrea, she isn’t interested in me. She’s Joe’s girlfriend now.” Read the…