Category: Nostalgia

The Day I Sang about the Latter-Day Glory with the C of C and with the Polygamists 17

Fundamentalism / Joseph Smith / LDS History / Meetings / Nostalgia / Polygamy / Sunstone / Women

The Day I Sang about the Latter-Day Glory with the C of C and with the Polygamists

Wherever people talk about Mormonism, you always hear about the fundamentalist Mormons: the polygamists. On the LDS-interest Internet there’s tons of discussion of modern-day polygamy usually in a hand-wringing what should be done about...

Emil, Is It You? 9

Death / Family / Freedom / Nostalgia / War

Emil, Is It You?

My mother Gudrun Bachmann was born on June 9, 1939. When World War II begun with the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, she was less than three months old. When Germany surrendered...

Oldies but Goodies: Testimony of a Dissident 7

Abuse / Appearances / Bloggernacle / Book of Mormon / Boyd Packer / BYU / Callings / Christianity / Depression / Divorce / Epistemology / Ethics / Europe / excommunication / Family / Freedom / Germany / LDS History / Moving On / Nostalgia / Obedience / Philosophy / Power / Prophets / Science / Sunstone / Theology

Oldies but Goodies: Testimony of a Dissident

A while back another blogger asked me to submit an essay about my Mormon experience. Probably, for good reasons he changed his mind and never published it. Since it is already written and might...

Walk With Hellmut 6

Germany / Nostalgia / War / World

Walk With Hellmut

Some of you might enjoy a virtual tour of the city of Saarbrücken, my last home before I came to the United States: Max Ophuels Preis_Trailer_2009 from LICHTFAKTOR on Vimeo. Located at the French...

Reasons 11

Nostalgia / Obedience / Sex and Gender / Violence / Women

Reasons

There is a reason why retention approaches zero. There is a reason why people can study their way out of the Church. There is a reason why a large percentage of non-American return missionaries...