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Reclaiming Our Stories

chanson, July 31, 2012

This is the presentation I gave for the panel Who gets to say what former Mormons are like? which I organized at the 2012 Sunstone Symposium. I could see that she didn’t know what she was talking about just by the description of this book! Author needs to do her…

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Michael De Groote explains MDL (Mormon Defense League) | Daniel Peterson Open Thread

Chino Blanco, August 18, 2011August 19, 2011

Fight Club was the beginning, now it’s moved out of the basement, it’s called Project Mayhem. — T. Durden There is a concern that public affairs, or the urge to be attractive, goes too far toward assimilation. You strain out anything that would be unusual. And for many Mormons its…

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  1. Donavan on Mormon Stories and John Dehlin’s Mystery CycleDecember 27, 2025

    COJCOLDS is tribalism, no different, no better than MAGA, built on repeating lies and aligning the worst aspects of human…

  2. Holly on Feeling Spiritually Defrauded By Spiritual Fraudsters (Unrighteous Dominion)December 27, 2025

    Hi Chanson-- You write, "A lot of ExMos like JD like to downplay stories like mine because seem to corroborate…

  3. chanson on Feeling Spiritually Defrauded By Spiritual Fraudsters (Unrighteous Dominion)December 27, 2025

    The positive things I got out of being raised Mormon are very similar to the items the both of you…

  4. Holly on Feeling Spiritually Defrauded By Spiritual Fraudsters (Unrighteous Dominion)December 26, 2025

    Hi Andrew-- You write, "the LDS church, precisely because it emphasizes so much about lay leadership, about member involvement, magnifying…

  5. Andrew S. on Feeling Spiritually Defrauded By Spiritual Fraudsters (Unrighteous Dominion)December 26, 2025

    Every time I think about the things I learned from the church that I still find value in outside the…

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