In case anyone missed it, Chino found a scary video — designed to scare Mormons and others with the problems in the world today — and claiming that there’s only one solution: Jesus Christ. (In the LDS font.) What that solution translates into in practical terms is hard to say,…
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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Easter Meat and Milk Edition!
We’ve had quite a collection of both hearty thought-provoking articles and light funnies in Outer Blogness this week!! I’ll just mix them up and let you guess which is which! First — in honor of Easter — a bunch of news from the Catholic Church. The evidence of institutionally-endemic child…
Ah, a Spring Wedding in Mexico — Lovely!
That’s what I kept thinking while I was reading this article about a Catholic mom who was devastated at not being able to attend her son’s LDS temple wedding (hat tip Life Beyond x-Mormonism). The couple got married in the Mesa Arizona temple! At least one or two of the…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The End of the World Edition!
I was reading some LDS blogs earlier this week and happened upon this cryptic post about how “Someone else shouldnt decide if I can write a book, and which course I should pursue in the process. […] When our founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, they gave…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Creation Edition!
It has been a big week for the arts!! First of all, check out Tom Clark‘s gorgeous book of photographs: The Utah Collection. (It’s a little bit NSFW, otherwise I’d post a picture of the cover here for you.) We’ve watched Tom build this collection over the past year, and…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Reporting Live Edition!
This is Chanson, reporting live (as usual) from my desk in Switzerland. But is seems like everybody else is reporting from some conference or convention or other. First of all, we have live coverage — straight from Australia — of the Global Atheist Convention! Daniel has heard fascinating talks and…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Clash of Perspectives Edition!
I have often heard the criticism that Latter-day Saints classify everyone who disagrees with our beliefs as “anti-Mormon.” Of course, the people who say this are usually anti-Mormons. Am I proving their point? I don’t think so. — McKay Coppins, Mormon Times Uh… How to begin to respond to such…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Debating Reality Edition!
It looks like a large segment of the American public thinks that a couple of out-of-context quotes from some leaked emails constitute knock-out-punch evidence that global warming is a lie. How can there be so much debate over things as cut-and-dried as facts and reality??? Fortunately Outer Blogness has risen…
The 2009 Brodie Winners Are…
Best Discussion Forum goes to Further Light And Knowledge. (And BTW, a big thanks to all the folks from all of the different discussion forums who participated in these awards! It was a pretty close race between FLAK and Mormon Discussions!) Best Static Site on LDS Issues goes to Richard…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Other People’s Problems Edition!
“Nothing About Us Without Us” — what a great insight, brought to us this past week by the feminist Mormon housewives. Reese Dixon wrote the post comparing the situation of disabled people with the situation of women in the LDS church: in both cases policy decisions are made for them,…