When studying history, it’s hard to separate fact from interpretation. Chris Smith argues that it may not be possible. And even a simple question like when to use Obama’s middle name in textbooks has an ideological component. Meanwhile, faithful-LDS blogger DKL really gets it right in his defense of Fawn Brodie and No Man Knows ...
Many of you are no doubt aware that almost all of the novel ExMormon has been posted online — serialized from here. And now it’s getting to be time to finally post the last chapter! There’s just one catch: Remember how I’ve said that each of the individual novellas can be read alone? Even the ...
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Deseret News recently mentioned David Cross’ latest release and called it “a probable R.” After listening to this track, I’d probably agree (technical note: the clip ends at 3:40 with Dave’s “sowwy” … nothing but dead air after that): Memo to hipster comedians: If you’re gonna rail, make some effort to get your facts straight ...
We’ve discussed before how difficult it is to determine official mormon doctrine. Policies and guidelines seem to change with the generations, with geographical area or with personal revelation. I’ve heard from two different sources that someone very high up in mormon priesthood and corporate leadership drinks coke on a regular basis. So since I’m not ...
The fun this week centered around Everybody draw Muhammad Day! Quite a lot of people drew Muhammad or thought about it. I didn’t get around to it (or, perhaps, I was with free expression in principle, but didn’t want my own family killed on principle). Meanwhile, there was a fascinating parallel discussion of what expression ...
In this earlier post I suggested that calling the Mormon Church a hate church may get them to change their position on same-sex marriage. I didn’t get a lot of takers on that position, but I have to wonder if maybe I was right. Turns out that the champion of the Arizona immigration law is ...
My crazy uncle (who I really like) just send me one of his amazing emails. Here’s the email with some comments I couldn’t help but add included in blue: HOORAY, HOORAY, HOORAY for Andy Rooney (hilarious that they think Andy Rooney would write this!). I myself have been grumbling and wondering how a handful of ...
This has been a big week for the arts! I know, sometimes it’s too easy to mock really bad art, yet so deliciously fun!! Speaking (as Holly did) of religious/sexual imagery, check out some of the pastels by Sister Mary Lisa on her new art website. Dayle’s art is perhaps a bit less explicit (but ...
—————————————————– Midweek Mormon Reddit Gazette 2010-W19 —————————————————– r/exmormon: Mormon Stories Podcast | Book on Church HQ In a 4-part podcast, Andrew Ainsworth asks LDS anthropologist Daymon Smith about Post-Manifesto Polygamy, Correlation, the Corporate LDS Church, and Mammon. r/exmormon: Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: independent historian Polly Aird talks about her book Growing up, Seattle author Polly ...
In honor of this special day, Outer Blogness (and the Bloggernacle) are full of touching tributes to mothers and cute pictures of baby animals. And adventures in motherhood. (Also, let me plug my own mom’s cool history blog.) Naturally, this holiday leads us to reflect on Heavenly Mother, with some standard criticisms. On to women’s ...
—————————————————– Midweek Mormon Reddit Gazette 2010-W18 —————————————————– Atheism disproved! You wash your hands even though you can’t see the germs, right? Right? I was talking with my nine year-old son the other night after spending a good part of the evening blogging. He showed some interest in what I was writing about, but it’s hard ...
The SLTribune has a great article today on Mormons and fraud. According to the article, Utah doesn’t rank #1 in fraud anymore, but it’s still up there. In an effort to combat this, several groups have organized “Fraud College” at Utah Valley State University. But, guess who has opted out of participating? The CoJCoLDS!!! The ...
Is it just my imagination, or did the posts of Outer Blogness seem to come in pairs this week? I mean, just look at two of the goals that were posted. Since one of the points of this weekly roundup is to encourage cross-blog discussion, I hope this random pairing will lead to some fruitful ...