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We’ve got some amazing choices for X-Mormon of the Year 2019 — please vote below (scroll down for more info on the candidates). Also note, nominations for the Brodie Awards are underway — please add your nominations here! Cody and Leah Young: Excommunicated from the CoJCoL-dS in 2019 after forming a Facebook group for former […]
Continue ReadingI am just about to post the polls for X-Mormon of the Year — so now it’s also time to start on the Brodie Awards!! The Brodie Awards are a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra recognition and signal boost to the best LDS-interest content published/posted during the past year. I know […]
Continue ReadingIt’s that time of year again — awards season!! Considering how little I’ve done to keep the ol’ blog alive this past year, I guess I won’t be surprised if interest in our yearly awards has dropped off. But just in case people are still interested, we’re hosting them again, as we have every year […]
Continue Readingby Johnny Townsend A former missionary colleague told me President Trump “has our back” in regard to tariffs, climate, and pretty much everything else. He said I was being manipulated to believe the “Angry Swedish Girl” over Trump, who is looking out for us by abandoning the Paris Agreement, which “many people believe” is “an […]
Continue ReadingI am in the process of upgrading the server for this site and its sister sites (MAA Books, Outer Blogness, and ExMormon). There will probably be some downtime *** ETA: It appears that the server migration was successful. Please comment (or email me at chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com) if you notice any […]
Continue Readingby Johnny Townsend On the surface, Mormons are generous. They give a full ten percent of their income to their church. They donate countless hours every week to various “callings,” as Sunday School teachers, Nursery leaders, temple workers, and janitors. The bishop of every congregation may volunteer 20 hours each week tending to the members […]
Continue Readingby Emily Waite Growing up in the Mormon church, the voice that narrated my life up until now was screaming of perfection. For as we know, though we will never reach it in this life, perfection is the goal – always. After leaving the church I had shed the rules and perfection of Mormonism. But […]
Continue Readingby Johnny Townsend I am baffled that so many Mormons support Donald Trump. At one point, the percentage of Mormon Trump supporters was the highest of any religion (61% according to a 2017 Gallup poll). While some Mormon opposition has existed from the start, the vast majority of Mormons heartily endorsed a man who admitted […]
Continue Readingby Johnny Townsend While the devastating effects of the climate crisis will help fulfill prophecies about the terrors of the “last days,” that’s about the only benefit the Mormon Church will receive from them. Virtually every other effect will weaken the Church. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints often feel they […]
Continue Readingby Johnny Townsend If you were a Jewish couple in 1938 Berlin, would you choose to bring a child into the world? Groups like Conceivable Future and Birthstrike are among several that have formed recently as more and more young people watching weather reports every day face a question most people in the U.S. have […]
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