*** EDIT: Due to technical and scheduling difficulties the voting will continue until Wednesday February 12th at 10am Switzerland time. Sorry for the delay! *** The polls are ready!! Here’s where you vote for your favorite works of LDS-interest art, music, writing, and video of 2019!! We have some really…
Last Call for 2019 Brodies Nominations!!
The Brodie Awards nominations are well underway — thanks to everyone who has nominated so far for the fantastic nominations!!! Here’s the first pass on organising all of the nominations into categories. As usual, I have moved some nominations around in order to try to keep the various races around…
Congratulations David Nielsen: 2019 X-Mormon of the Year!!!
100 Billion dollars!! That’s how much the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is hoarding in an investment fund at Ensign Peak Advisors — according to whistleblower David Nielsen. (And that’s not to mention the church’s vast real-estate fortune and other investment holdings…) Will this new revelation make a…
It’s time to vote for Wm. Law X-Mormon of the Year 2019!!!
We’ve got some amazing choices for X-Mormon of the Year 2019 — please vote below (scroll down for more info on the candidates). Also note, nominations for the Brodie Awards are underway — please add your nominations here! Cody and Leah Young: Excommunicated from the CoJCoL-dS in 2019 after forming…
Collecting Nominations for the 2019 Brodie Awards!!
I am just about to post the polls for X-Mormon of the Year — so now it’s also time to start on the Brodie Awards!! The Brodie Awards are a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra recognition and signal boost to the best LDS-interest content published/posted during…
Collecting Nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2019!!!
It’s that time of year again — awards season!! Considering how little I’ve done to keep the ol’ blog alive this past year, I guess I won’t be surprised if interest in our yearly awards has dropped off. But just in case people are still interested, we’re hosting them again,…
That Time King Noah Had Our Back
by Johnny Townsend A former missionary colleague told me President Trump “has our back” in regard to tariffs, climate, and pretty much everything else. He said I was being manipulated to believe the “Angry Swedish Girl” over Trump, who is looking out for us by abandoning the Paris Agreement, which…
Server maintenance
I am in the process of upgrading the server for this site and its sister sites (MAA Books, Outer Blogness, and ExMormon). There will probably be some downtime *** ETA: It appears that the server migration was successful. Please comment (or email me at chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot…
A Stingy God
by Johnny Townsend On the surface, Mormons are generous. They give a full ten percent of their income to their church. They donate countless hours every week to various “callings,” as Sunday School teachers, Nursery leaders, temple workers, and janitors. The bishop of every congregation may volunteer 20 hours each…
Magic Glasses and a Bunny Suit (saying no to perfection and yes to vulnerability)
by Emily Waite Growing up in the Mormon church, the voice that narrated my life up until now was screaming of perfection. For as we know, though we will never reach it in this life, perfection is the goal – always. After leaving the church I had shed the rules…