by Johnny Townsend Religious conservatives often accuse secular or inclusive people of conducting a “War on Christmas!” or “War on Religion!” or “War on God!” I would rephrase that. I and many others are anxiously engaged in conducting a war against ignorance, a war against bigotry and selfishness and greed…
Latter-day Saint Leaders Can’t Understand Why Teenagers Have Trouble Converting People to Their Church
Although the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spent decades instructing their official teenage representatives to rush to challenge everyone they meet to be baptized, they are apparently baffled as to why their official teenage representatives have for decades rushed to challenge everyone they meet to…
Eyes in the Back of My Head
by Johnny Townsend In the life of every atheist raised in a religious household, there comes a moment when we encounter our first question that can’t be answered. For me, it was when as a young Mormon teen reading lots of science fiction novels, I encountered aliens with amazing abilities….
America’s Greatest Mystery Novel
Once you strip away all the Book of Mormon’s pretenses of scriptural import, what you have is nothing more nor less than a lusty tale of America’s favorite subject: families and murder…. Murder and ruin are written across the breadth of Joseph Smith’s pre-American panorama, and because violence always demands…
Call for Submissions
Mormon Alumni Association Books is seeking LDS-themed novels in all categories, including literary, commercial, and genre fiction. We will also consider short fiction and poetry collections. We are looking for completed manuscripts that explore the unique Mormon experience. Works may be critical of or sympathetic to the LDS Church and…
A Mormon By Any Other Name
by Johnny Townsend A Mormon by any other name would smell as sweet. Or, more accurately, a Mormon by any other name would smell as saccharine. I don’t mean to sound offensive. That’s always the trick, isn’t it? Not sounding offensive. It’s perfectly okay to be offensive, though, right? “I…
Congratulations 2018 Brodies Winners!!!
The results are in!!! Congrats to all the winners, and thanks to all who participated!! Year-long awards for people and groups: Best New Podcast: Marriage on a Tightrope Best New Blog/Channel/Site: Unrigeteous Dominion Best Podcast: Radio Free Mormon Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast: The Drunk Mormon Podcast Best Site of Images/Memes/Comics: Stuff…
Time to vote for the 2018 Brodie Awards!!!
The polls are now ready!! A huge thanks to everyone who nominated and shared with us this fantastic crop of amazing content from 2018!! Year-long awards for people and groups: Best New Podcast Brodies 2018: Best New Podcast Marriage on a Tightrope The Drunk Mormon Podcast Latter Day Lesbian Glass…
Last call for Brodies Nominations!!
Thanks for all of the additional nominations!!! I am really sorry for losing so many nominations between the first and second nomination threads — there was this cute little button marked “older comments” which I somehow didn’t notice when I did my earlier roundup. I hope I have everything now…
Brodies 2018 – intermediate nomination roundup!
Thanks for all of the great nominations so far!! I haven’t added my own nominations yet, but I plan to do so this weekend, and then I’ll make the polls. So you have one more week (from this posting) to nominate and then two weeks to vote. It would appear…