Mormon Erotica, the new novel from Donna Banta, is a joyous page-turner that, despite the title, is far more concerned with love and romance than sex. While the book contains plenty of reflection on Mormon attitudes toward sex and marriage, the action depicted is strictly PG. As with so many…
Gathering MORE nominations for the 2017 Brodie Awards!!
The voting for X-Mormon of the Year is underway you have until January 20th to get your vote in!! As usual, we’re also doing the Brodie Awards — a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra recognition and signal boost to the best LDS-interest content published/posted during the…
It’s time to vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2017!!!
It’s poll time for William Law X-Mormon of the Year! Before you vote, though, please consider nominating your favorite bloggers, podcasters, etc. for this year’s Brodie Awards! Anyone can nominate. Here are this year’s X-MotY nominees and what they did in 2017: Jacinda Ardern: This exmo became Prime Minister of…
Collecting nominations for the 2017 Brodie Awards!!!
The nomination process for X-Mormon of the Year is underway — please be sure to get in your nominations before next weekend when the voting begins. 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…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Towel girls edition!
Thanks to everyone who has been contributing nominations for X-Mormon of the Year! I am planning to start collecting nominations for the Brodie Awards this weekend, and then the following weekend, I’ll post the polls to vote for X-Mormon of the Year. So, the Mormon community got some exciting news…
Collecting nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2017!!!
Hey folks — it’s that time of year again! Time to decide which X-Mormon made the biggest splash in 2017!! As I said a few weeks ago, it seems like the “Mormon Moment” is over. It seems like there haven’t been as many high-profile excommunications or original public demonstrations during…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Books edition!
Yay, Mormon Alumni Association Books is finally taking off! I just got the first proof copy of our first book in the mail: Now I need to do some work on updating the website — the current list of books there is a list of recommended titles from other publishers…
The Ignorance of Defensive Mormons
The last time I attended a Mormon sacrament meeting was around two years ago. The principle speaker was a stake high councilman. Boasting success in his professional life, he credited his accomplishments to his compassionate approach toward the “less worthy.” “When I mix with my worldly colleagues,” he explained, “I…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Mormon Moment is Over Edition!
It seems like a couple of years ago there was some LDS-related scandal practically every other week — often making national and international news. Now, not so much. I guess the CoJCoL-dS can’t compete with Trump. Those were the days. Well, let me scrape together what Mormon news I found…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Girl Boy Scouts edition!
When I was a kid growing up Mormon, I wanted to do all of the fun, cool things the Boy Scouts got to do. It wasn’t that the scouting program was ideal so much as the fact that the boys got infinitely more resources (and recognition) for their activities than…