On Saturday the weather was strangely warm for late October. It was like Summer again all of the sudden. I had nothing to do, so I called up Sam and Joe’s house. Joe was home all by himself because Sam was at football practice and his parents had decided to…
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C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! See "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Lifestyles Edition!
The good folks of Outer Blogness seem to be having some mixed feelings about facebook lately. But nobody seems to be opting out completely. Like cell-phones, facebook eventually gets adopted by everybody… In the interfaith relations department, Runtu has resolved to play nice with the faithful, and not paint them…
And where did he serve his mission? (O.H. begins…)
Sam was pretty lucky that his cousin Joe had come to live with him. The three of us were all in the same math class together, which meant that Sam got free help with his math homework every night while I only got help when they invited me over. I…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Lifecycle Edition!
This week Magic Cicero asks: What Does It Mean to Recover from Mormonism? And he comes to the same conclusion as so many of us here on Main Street Plaza: But there’s a lot of who I am that can’t be disconnected from that Mormon past. For better or worse,…
Warning for “Orem High”
I’m afraid this next segment (Orem High, beginning this Tuesday!) is probably the section that most needs a disclaimer. I’ll divide the warning into two parts: (1) the name, and (2) the sex. the name Why did I call this segment “Orem High”? I’ve never been there — I’ve never…
If they feel happy and think they’re happy, how is that different from BEING happy?
That was Rebecca’s response to her Mormon mom who dismissed the possibility that an exmo friend might be happy (“Oh, she only thinks she’s happy”). I thought of this point when the subject came up again, and Hellmut mentioned how awful the Mormon phony/forced happiness is.
“Optimal Tension” fine, but how far are we from “optimal”?
We hear a lot on the Bloggernacle about Armand Mauss’s theory of optimal tension. Getting down to brass tacks, it’s that when the LDS church denies the priesthood to black people or marriage to gay people, it’s not just about the black people or the gay people — it’s also…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Lite ‘n Crunchy Edition!
This week in Outer Blogness I’ve seen a number of images and other things that made me laugh or smile: Jean offers a picture of an alternate reality in which the Angel Moroni arrives via snowboard. Tom posts an unvarnished portrait of a 55-year old man getting to know his…
Three Categories of Sinners!!!
Bull received (from his TBM brother) this unsolicited catalog of all of the types of those who leave the church: Group 1: People who have battled patterns of behavior who fight until they conquer it Group 2: People who go inactively quietly in an attempt to minimize feelings of shame…
In the Shadow of the Temple
There’s an exciting new documentary in the works, coming out in the Fall of 2009! Called In the Shadow of the Temple, it’s about the lives of ex-Mormons and of people who don’t believe but still practice Mormonism for family reasons. The filmmakers have finished taking all of the footage…