I’d be even happier to see 2016 gone if it weren’t for the fact that the main problems of 2016 are ones that will be blossoming catastrophically in 2017… 🙁 Adult Onset Atheist described the problem in a nutshell: One potential lead indicator, that has a lot of scientists worrying…
Time to vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2016!!
Here’s where you can vote on which X-Mormon made the biggest splash in 2016: X-Mormon of the Year 2016!! ** Note: nominations for the 2016 Brodie Awards are open ** Introducing this year’s nominees: Jeremy Runnells: Author of the CES Letter, he excommunicated the church after being called in for…
Collecting nominations for the 2016 Brodie Awards!!!
As you may recall, 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. This is your opportunity to review your favorite pieces, find out about great works you may have missed,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Christmas Edition!
Wow, just when you thought the CoJCoL-dS didn’t have a shred of integrity left to sell, they’re sending the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to perform for Trump’s inauguration. The same Trump that hasn’t even taken office yet in is already putting us all in an incomprehensible level of danger from both…
The Ironies of Science: Religion is the Addiction
It’s not uncommon for TBM Mormons to claim that people who leave the religion do so because they want to sin. Tied to this are all sorts of claims about addiction: addiction to drugs, to pornography, to alcohol, to coffee, and to sex. A simplified caricature of the TBM perspective…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Awards season opens edition!
2016 is coming to a close, and you know what that means! Time to give a little extra recognition to the best exmormon stuff of the year! The nominations for William Law X-Mormon of the Year have been open for a week now. If you haven’t added your nomination yet,…
Collecting Nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2016
It’s awards season again, and this year’s contest for William Law X-Mormon of the Year looks like it will be the most exciting one yet!! When Jeremy Runnells excommunicated the church at his disciplinary council this past Spring, I immediately concluded that he had the 2016 X-Mormon of the Year…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Still still not OK edition!
Awards season is almost upon us, and this year’s race for X-Mormon of the year is likely to be our most exciting ever! I hope to have the nominations thread up on Friday of this coming week. The depressing part is that things are still not OK in this world….
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Quick break edition!
Hi folks, I have been too depressed about the state of the world to do SiOB this week, sorry. SiOB will be back next week, and we have an exciting awards season coming up soon! In the meantime, I’m taking a pause for some less-stressful activities: drawing my comic book,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Still not OK edition!
So, the reason I didn’t get SiOB done yesterday is explained in this helpful comic. I was thinking that rounding up this past week’s Mormon discussion would distract me from our current crisis of democracy, but it appears that the LDS-interest bloggers are also still talking about the election. Well,…