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Post-Mormon Media: Past, Present, and Future!

chanson, August 8, 2024January 24, 2025

This is a short presentation I gave as part of the panel “Who Gets to Say What Former Mormons are Like?” at Sunstone 2024, organized by Chino Blanco, which was a reprise of the panel of the same name that I organized in 2012. When I set off for BYU…

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We’ve got their attention!

profxm, April 27, 2011

LDS, Inc. is hemorrhaging members, particularly young people, and they are trying to adjust their organizational structure to stem the tide. The recent change in ward structures in Salt Lake is a direct response to the mass exodus of young people out of LDS, Inc. When I saw the initial…

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‘Mormon Matters’ Looking for New Collaborators/Writers/Podcasters

Chino Blanco, September 29, 2010September 30, 2010

John Dehlin posted this announcement at Mormon Matters, which I’m copying-and-pasting below (and adding my encouragement that you consider contacting John … if you’re already blogging, participating could be as simple as cross-posting your work to Mormon Matters). Mormon Matters is looking for a few new collaborators to re-work the…

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