OK, so, it’s not a holiday here, but I hear many of you were celebrating some holiday involving lots of delicious recipes! Plus some thanking and some dangerous conversations with loved ones. I’m just thankful that things have slowed down a bit. It’s getting to the point where a slow…
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C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! Follow me on mastadon at @chanson@social.linux.pizza or see "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!
Sunday in Outer Blogness: aftershocks edition!
Things have perhaps calmed down a bit, but the fallout from the disastrous policy isn’t over yet. The CoJCoL-dS has hit the national news again with this error — with lots of coverage of the people quitting the church. (But should you resign or make them kick you out instead?…
The true meaning of service: Scott Miller and Mark Hubble’s “The Book of a Mormon”
Like many young Mormon adults, Scott Miller set off on a mission largely because he had always planned to — but wasn’t really prepared for what he was getting himself into. This mission memoir takes place in the late 70’s — earlier than most others I’ve read. Amusing 70’s-specific tidbits…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The gods must be crazy edition!!
This has been quite a difficult week. I generally try to get the week’s news down to a manageable list of links, but there has been so much going on that this could take a while… By now you’ve surely heard that the First Presidency of the CoJCoL-dS has issued…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: People and families edition!
I have done all that I can to ensure that my kids will never have to choose between having a relationship with their father and his partner whom they both love, and being involved in the church that their mother loves. Now, because my boys live with me part time,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: More fun for the women edition!
As you might imagine, the discussion of last week‘s essay on women, the priesthood, and Heavenly Mother isn’t done. The doctrine of a Heavenly Mother that you aren’t allowed to talk to or about is just too problematic. And the bit in the essay about women and the priesthood seems…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: New essay edition!
The CoJCoL-dS just released a new essay — this time on women’s roles and Mother in Heaven (u redd it first here) — and everyone is talking about it! As usual, not everyone is thrilled by it: I need a mother. I don’t need the notion of a mother, or…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Another week, another SiOB edition, ;)
Sigh, this week has been pretty calm compared to last week. I guess there was this article about mishies not getting the healthcare they need, which gave some deserved publicity to the Sick RMs organization. President Newsroom’s response made me sick. Just a couple weeks after the fiasco of handing…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Ponderize Edition!
I just love the week after General Conference! We get treated a to a whole week of discussion and analysis (and parodies and oodles and oodles of podcasts!) of all of the good parts of what was said — and, boy, did this last one have a lot of stuff…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Armageddon deferred (again) edition!
September ended, the “blood moon” came and went, and — surprise, surprise — the end-of-the-world financial collapse (predicted by Julie Rowe and the preppers) didn’t happen. I was just wondering why so many people go bananas over disaster predictions that are just made up when there are so many reality-based…