In case you didn’t catch it, the LDS Church now owns 2% of the state of Florida. Â Since I try not to bug my still Mormon family members about the LDS Church very often, I decided to go to the always available source for thoughts on this: Missionary Chat. Â My…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: What women want edition!
You may have heard that the New York Times published an article on female Mormon missionaries and how cool they are! Mormon women like it for its tone and accuracy: The tone was perfect—respectful without lapsing into the reverence or romanticizing a church publication so often displays for missionary work;…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: No planet for you edition!
As cool as it was when the CoJCoL-dS dumped its racist doctrines, it was clear (even at the time) that there are disadvantages to giving the keys of defining Mormon doctrine over to the quorum of the anonymous website maintainers. Officially endorsing questionable apologetics on the Book of Mormon (like…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Gay Agenda Edition!!!
I am so glad to be living in the Internet age!! There is so much fun stuff that happens today that just wasn’t even possible before the Internet. Case in point, a Mormon lady posted about the gay agenda in the Disney movie Frozen — and the whole Internet blossomed…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Literally edition!!
You may or may not know this, but this year is the year (of the four-year-four-standard-works cycle) in which Mormons around the globe are studying the Old Testament. And it seems that all the cognitive dissonance from reading the tales of Adam, Noah, Lot, et al, came to a head…
The Mormon Open Letter!!
By now you’ve probably heard of the open letter to President Thomas S. Monson that has been making the rounds of the Internet. If you have not read it yet, I encourage you to go read it carefully, and add your signature if you agree. Personally, I am impressed by…
Congratulations 2013 Brodie Award Winners!!!
The results are in!! Let’s congratulate this year’s winners!!! Year-long awards for people and websites: Best New Blog: Church of the Fridge Best Discussion Forum: R/exmormon Best Humor/Satire Site or Blog: Ward Gossip Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog: Pure Mormonism Best LDS-Interest Audio/Video Channel/Series: Brother Jake Awards for Individual Works: Best…
My MSP contributions thus far
I’ve been a contributor to Main Street Plaza for a few years now. Recently, I’ve been posting a lot less frequently because my interests have developed in other directions than Mormonism. This is probably because I’m 30 years old and left the Church half-my-life ago! Looking back through my posts,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: See you in court edition!
I want to remind you that you only have a few more days to campaign and get in your votes for the Brodies. But Brodies’ season has been overshadowed by an astonishing bit of news: Thomas S. Monson — the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…
Mithryn’s breakdown of the lawsuit against Monson. Has it got a chance?
Full text here I’ve done some digging on the 2006 fraud act, and the 7 claims that are specifically mentioned in the brief may not hold up. Of them, most claims (Nauvoo expositor was full of lies, Book of Abraham legitimacy, DNA and indians, etc.) were made publically before Jan…