It’s starting to look more and more like Hillary Clinton has a shot at winning Utah in the upcoming US election!! I’m really proud of the Mormons for having rejected Donald Trump months ago — as a matter of integrity — rather than supporting him out of expedience or making…
Category: Sunday in Outer Blogness
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Where you’ll go edition!
Has Trump finally crossed the line? Nothing Trump said in the leaked recording is particularly surprising coming from him, but maybe hearing it in his own voice will end some of the denial…? And it looks like the Mormons are first in line to dump Trump! As I’ve said before,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Conference Time Edition!
It’s waiting time! General Conference is upon us with all that entails! As usual, it will take a bit of time for the juiciest nuggets to hit the discussion circuit. Apparently there’s also supposed to be something newsworthy in the batch of leaked documents that we’ll be hearing about soon….
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Exposed Edition!
So, you may have heard that a bunch of internal documents from the CoJCoL-dS got leaked to the exmo reddit the other day (by a disgruntled former employee?). The consensus appears to be that they don’t contain anything too surprising, but perhaps it’s interesting to see how the church functions…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The women problem edition!
Michael Austin of BCC pointed out that the BYU system of universities is one of the worst offenders when it comes to gender disparity in the faculty (check out these graphs!). In related news, a story from a Utah High School went viral when cheerleaders were asked not to wear…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Where’s Mom edition!
So, what’s up with Heavenly Mother? What do Mormons even believe about Her? Here’s an interesting theory (and rebuttal): Recently, it was suggested in another blog post featured in Young Mormon Feminists that Heavenly Mother was Lucifer and that Heavenly Father viewed her as narcissistic and attention seeking. As a…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Back to school edition!
Sadly, Summer is on the wane — it’s time for the fun of seminary with some changes to the curriculum! Even better — Free BYU announced that BYU is starting to relax its “leave Mormonism and get expelled” policy: While bishops can still refuse or revoke an ecclesiastical endorsement for…
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This week Elder Holland has launched another attack on secularism (which drew some criticism). On the other hand, a speaker at the FairMormon Conference advised Mormons to “make secularism an ally rather than a bogeyman.” With the rise of Trump some faithful Mormons are finally getting the picture that their…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Vacation edition!
Yes, it’s vacation season here in Europe! All the fascinating news and stories keep pouring in from Mormon-land, but sadly I have not had time to gather them up for you. I put off putting up this post because I kept thinking “I will have some point have a block…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Losing my religion edition!
This has been a great week for journeys!! Richard of Zelph wrote us a beautifully, painfully raw and honest essay on how — as exmos — we don’t need to force a happy face, and we’re not required to just move on: Living in Utah, maintaining LDS relationships, and even…