Check out the official December 2010 web analytics that LDS Inc. doesn’t want you to see: How many people visit Church sites? The family of official Church sites (LDS.org, Mormon.org, FamilySearch.org, etc.), gets about seven million unique visitors per month. What are the biggest Church sites? FamilySearch.org is our biggest…
What happens when journalists don theology hats?
You get arguments like Lane Williams’s in the MormonTimes this morning. Williams begins by lamenting the fact that atheists occasionally receive media attention: Reporters have provided a great deal of attention to these atheists, stoking the controversy over the existence of God. Even if reporters had no purpose to question…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Lifecycle Edition!
This week’s collection of posts take us on a trip from the beginning of life to the end. First there’s birth — lots of birth! — and the initial moments bonding with mom. Then you get one type of parenting or another, or worse. Next thing you know, it’s off…
Congratulations 2010 Brodie Winners!!!
Congrats on a great year of posts to everyone who participated — and congratulations especially to the following outstanding folks!!! Year-Long Awards for People and Websites: Best New Blog: Mormon Expression Blogs Best Discussion Forum: Post-Mormon.org Best Humor Site/Blog: Eliza R. Snitch Best Static LDS-Interest Site: MormonThink Best LDS Church…
Inciting Violence – Glenn Beck and Fox News’s specialty
When I was in graduate school (2001-2007), my department regularly held symposia. Most of the symposia were members of our department or faculty at our university presenting their research. But occasionally we would bring in outside scholars to talk about their research. One of those scholars was Frances Fox Piven,…
Racialized Domestic Servitude and the Perfect Mormon Housewife
One thing I’ve been reading about recently is the split in the 1970s of white feminism from feminisms of color. One of the main sources of the split comes from the topic of domestic servitude. While white women wanted to get out of the home by the 1970s, the gendered…
Time for William Law X-Mormon of the Year nominations!!!
So, which illustrious X-Mormon made the biggest impact in 2010? Remember that — for this award — “X” is a variable that can stand for all sorts of borderland Mormon categories (ex. “former” Mormon — but feel free to be creative when filling in the blank!). We had a great…
1965 “For the Strength of Youth”
Publisher’s Note: J. Seth Anderson toils in Outer Blogness at Boy Meets Blog and was recently featured in Jordan Currier’s Disciples. We could use a few more dispatches from the southerly ends of the Morridor around here at MSP and Seth promises to help us do something about that. I…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Violent Rhetoric Edition!
Folks, sorry Sunday has come a little late this week! I’d like to claim that I was just so busy, but really it was a combination of massive Spring cleaning, plus a bit of getting sucked in by the call of the Legos, and then forgetting (until Sunday evening) that…
Q: How to get single Mormons to attend LDS Institute classes?
A: Guilt and sex. Tonight? Oh, behave. Rrrrr. h/t: r/exmormon and t.t.a.n.s. See also Mormon Ad FAIL: I know I shouldn’t be shocked and outraged that this comes from a church whose finest entertainment moment was the depiction of Johnny Lingo bartering for an 8-Cow Wife. And I know I’ve…