This year, for the first time ever, the winners of the Brodie Awards and Ex-Mormon of the Year will be announced live on a popular podcast!!! The Mormon Discussions Podcast has generously offered to host the awards ceremonies (as I announced on their podcast last week): So this year we’ll…
Mormon Stories and John Dehlin’s Mystery Cycle
Over the past five years or so, I’ve tried every so often to track down a particular conversation here at MSP about one of John Dehlin’s failures to tamp down a crisis he created for himself. Something about it nagged at me, and I wanted to review it. I was…
Awards
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Collecting Nominations for the 2025 Brodie Awards!!
Edit: Nominations are closed. Vote here. Welcome to the opening of the 16th annual Brodie Awards season!!! I hope many of you are already familiar with how this works — but I also hope there are also some new people participating for the first time this year!! Especially for the…
Awards
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Collecting Nominations for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2025!!!
Edit: Nominations are closed. Vote here. It’s awards season again!! Time to recognize and celebrate the most-talked-about Mo’s and ex-Mo’s of 2025!! As usual, we start with X-Mormon of the Year — for the X-Mormon who made the biggest splash in 2025!! Just to review the guidelines: “X-Mormon of the…
Meetings
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Fifteen Years Later
In the summer of 2010, I moved my family from England to Northern California. In the process I made the decision to not seek out the church which I had been a member of my entire life. I was done with Mormonism and wouldn’t be going back. Although blessed with…
Gay Agenda
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A pox on the PoX policy, ten years on
November 5 marks the 10th anniversary of the Exclusion Policy, which expanded the definition of apostasy to include gay marriage. Yes, committing to a same sex partner was committing a sin worse than adultery, rape, or murder. Same-sex transgressors were to be excommunicated; their children were ineligible for baby blessings…
Book Review
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Review of “Filling Empty” by Randy C. Watts
Filling Empty, as the title promotes, is a collection of ideas to help those that have lost loved ones and are trying to navigate the rocky waters of grieving. Watts, a former member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, poignantly and painfully discusses his experience in trying…
LGBT
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LDS vs LGBTQ: Nathan Kitchen sheds false binaries
In his memoir, the former President of Affirmation shows how to embrace both queerness and faith The LDS Church’s stance against gay people has evolved in the past half century. Homosexuality is no longer blamed on sexual abuse, poor parenting or, as Spencer W. Kimball said, an embarrassing “search for…
Why Are So Many Mormons Devil Worshippers?
Latter-day Saints—Mormons—members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—have been accused through the years of belonging to a cult, being non-Christian, being fanatics. They’ve even been accused of being devil worshippers. I used to laugh at such claims, but now I see there might be some merit to…
Community
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Righteous Defiance for Refugees, not
On March 7, the LDS Church released a pro-refugee video featuring Apostle Dieter Uchtdorf describing himself as a refugee, along with stock footage of Jesus Christ literally uplifting the weary. Why the timing? The day before, Trump toyed with revoking the legal status of about 240,000 Ukranians who were in the…