In our last episode, we were too distracted by scandal to take much note of General Conference, but apparently there was a bit of a surprise! Since people were not happy to see three apostleships all going to white guys from Utah (in 2015), this time the CoJCoL-dS decided to…
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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!!
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Rape room edition!
Hey folks — apologies for the salacious title, but wow — the latest from Mormon Leaks is quite a shocker! Audio of an interview in which a former president of the MTC admits to having a special basement office for very special interviews with Sister Missionaries who report to him!…
Server maintenance
Hi everyone — I am taking advantage of this long Easter weekend to move this blog to a new server. So there may be some intermittent problems. If you notice any weird behavoir, please comment so I will know what to fix. There’s been quite the explosion of Mormon news…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: I’m back edition!
Hey folks, let’s ease back into this with some good old-fashioned gender inequality! April Young Bennett performed a fascinating experiment on what happens when you merely point out how few women speak at LDS General Conference — particularly daring to include some controversial musings: “Wouldn’t it be strange if we…
Congratulations 2017 Brodie Award Winners!!!
Congrats to the following winners and to all who participated!! Year-long awards for people and groups: Brodies 2017: Best New Blog/Channel/Podcast: Radio Free Mormon Brodies 2017: Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast: Brother Jake Brodies 2017: Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast: Naked Mormonism Brodies 2017: Best LDS-Church-Info Site: MormonLeaks Brodies 2017: Best LDS-interest Discussion…
Brodies + MAA Books!!
The Brodies voting is well underway — and it has turned out to be an exciting year after all!! There are already some clear winners, but also some tight races, such as: “Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast,” “Best Life Journey Piece,” “Best Response to Apologetics,” “Best Discussion on Gender,” and “Best…
Time to vote for the 2017 Brodie Awards!!!
Yay, it’s time to vote!!! Thanks for all of the great nominations — we have got a great crop this year!! And I thought it was going to be a slow year! Thanks especially to all of those who indulged my last-minute request for poems! Year-long awards for people and…
Sorry, one last round for Brodies nominations….
OK, folks, I wanted to have the polls up today, but I ran into a bit of a glitch: Two people nominated The War Goes On, by Clarence Tong, as best poem, but…. I don’t have a third poem nomination to make this category viable. And I don’t want to…
You’re the star of your adventure now, Lolly Weed!
For me, giving my whole heart to Josh while knowing that he did not love me the way a man loves a woman has always been devastating. We were best friends, but he never desired me, he never adored me, he never longed for me. […] No matter how much…
Testing 1,2
We are unfortunately experiencing some server issues. Our server provider is doing some sort of critical maintenance that is supposed to not interrupt service too much, but… Well, thanks for your patience…