You may or may not know this, but this year is the year (of the four-year-four-standard-works cycle) in which Mormons around the globe are studying the Old Testament. And it seems that all the cognitive dissonance from reading the tales of Adam, Noah, Lot, et al, came to a head…
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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!!
The Mormon Open Letter!!
By now you’ve probably heard of the open letter to President Thomas S. Monson that has been making the rounds of the Internet. If you have not read it yet, I encourage you to go read it carefully, and add your signature if you agree. Personally, I am impressed by…
Congratulations 2013 Brodie Award Winners!!!
The results are in!! Let’s congratulate this year’s winners!!! Year-long awards for people and websites: Best New Blog: Church of the Fridge Best Discussion Forum: R/exmormon Best Humor/Satire Site or Blog: Ward Gossip Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog: Pure Mormonism Best LDS-Interest Audio/Video Channel/Series: Brother Jake Awards for Individual Works: Best…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: See you in court edition!
I want to remind you that you only have a few more days to campaign and get in your votes for the Brodies. But Brodies’ season has been overshadowed by an astonishing bit of news: Thomas S. Monson — the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: BoM DNA edition!!
The voting for the Brodies is off to an excellent start, with tons of votes coming in from the exmo subreddit and other places!! If you’ve been nominated and would like to win, you may want to send your fans here. And whether you’re in the running or not, please…
Through Abuse and out: Todd Maxwell Preston’s “Sacred Road”
My father was sexually abused as a boy. I found this out when I was thirty-five years old. Was I shocked? Not really – he was raised with violence and abuse, in a very dysfunctional system. The abuse was accepted as normal, I get that now. The fact that it…
2013 Brodies: Vote Here!!!
Check out all of these great pieces from 2013!!! You have nearly two weeks to read them and vote. Polls close on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 6am Switzerland time! ** There are some issues with the polls embedding — if you don’t see them, click on the category title to…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Fun with beliefs Edition!!
The last call for Brodies nominations went up yesterday — and I’d like to especially call your attention to the categories that are light on nominations. If you can think of a work from 2013 that deserves recognition in one of those categories, it may make the difference as to…
The funnest post of the year!!! (Last call for Brodies nominations!!)
OK, folks — I have compiled your nominations and reviewed all of my SiOB posts from the past year to put together the nominations for the Brodies!! I think the biggest news for this year is the number of pieces of original research — so I have added an original…
Congratulations to 2013 X-Mormons of the Year: J. Seth Anderson and Michael Ferguson!!!
It’s an inspiring and exciting story! Couples in California right around Proposition 8 learned that if you don’t get married in the window of time when it’s legal, you might have a long wait before your next opportunity. Failure to block same-sex-marriages legally was apparently an error on the part…