You may have seen that Times and Seasons elected Harry Reid “Mormon of the Year” for 2009. Then — not to be outdone — BCC created the Boggs-Doniphan “Gentile of the Year” Award, and awarded it to Stephen Colbert. Well, it’s time for Main Street Plaza to get into the…
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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: Personal Entrance/Exit Stories!
This week we have had a bonanza of personal conversion and deconversion stories! Naturally, you probably noticed Saganist’s story posted here yesterday. But there are more! Check out the Urban Koda’s funny story When I knew…. Greenish Blue reposted a fascinating mini-series recounting his personal history with Mormonism and belief….
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Ideas and Discussions Edition!
After criticizing the lack of content in Mormon meetings, let’s have a look at the things you can learn while wandering around Outer Blogness! Several people have posted about how their own ideas have changed. Probably the biggest change of this week was when the InMOMniac made a very personal…
More on Meetings!
Shortly after our last discussion of meetings, there was a new development that has sparked discussion throughout the Bloggernacle: The new manual for Priesthood and Relief Society (adult classes) is a book which, until now, “largely has been used as a primer for new converts.” Even though (I assume) LDS…
Civil discourse and our goals at Main Street Plaza
We dont need to stoop to insults to win debates; reality is on our side. And there are many people out there who are willing to listen to logic and evidence, when presented reasonably and in good faith. We should always presume that people who disagree with us are amenable…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: New Year Edition!
The turn of the decade has inspired quite a lot of introspection, retrospection, and prospection throughout Outer Blogness!! Plus, many of us went home for the holidays — and lived to post the tale! Let’s start with how we all fared visiting the folks: How about a family discussion of…
Does/did anyone enjoy attending their meetings?
Before I discovered the Internet, I assumed that most people who stop believing in Mormonism had approximately the same issues I had. One of my biggest revelations upon discovering the exmo/DAMU community was the variety of experiences. Though everyone had reached approximately the same conclusion (about the truth of the…
Christmas in Outer Blogness!
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! My sources indicate that many people in Outer Blogness did! Just see for yourself!
Temple Marriage, Civil Marriage, and my marriage
When I got married — back in 2000 — the “gay marriage” issue was hardly on my radar. Ever since reading Stephen J. Gould’s Creation Myths of Cooperstown essay (back in my BYU days), I’ve tended to be wary of “just-so stories” that give an instantaneous creation point to something…
Visited the stealth office of the NOM today
I was doing some Christmas shopping downtown and thought it might be amusing to swing by the office of the National Organization for Marriage — since it’s right there in the pedestrian-friendly shopping district of Princeton. According to an earlier post, it’s in the same building (20 Nassau Street) as…