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Irresistible (Dis)Grace For those who leave, but can't leave it alone

English - Exmormon, Atheism, Cultural Mormon
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 10h ago

I can’t think straight

Since I wrote my post on the death of marriage, I’ve gotten a lot of responses and counterarguments to it. Part of that is because I posted links to it at several locations — on Mormon Facebook groups, on the ex-Mormon reddit page, and so on. There were a lot of people across all of [...]
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 3d ago

Christian Chain Mail #5: Why People Leave the Church

It’s been a long time since I’ve written an article in this series, but see my reactions to the last four Christian chain mail messages. The fun thing about these messages is that they are not based in a Mormon cultural context, so I get to compare Mormon answers and non-LDS Christian answers to sim
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 6d ago

Marriage* is dead…and we** have killed it.

In so many issues and in so many ways, I shun the extremes. My doubting personality deprives me of certainty and surety, and as a result, I vacillate, never sticking firmly in one camp or another. However, there are some issues as well where I have a position, and my doubt isn’t…self-aware..? enough
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 1W ago

Wickedness Never Was Happiness…at Wheat and Tares

I’m back in the swing of writing posts at Wheat & Tares again with my latest: Wickedness Never Was Happiness – Gay Relationships and Mormonism. This post is primarily my reaction to a recent post I read from a non-LDS Christian, entitled “Same-sex marriage makes a lot of sense.” I’ll spoil the artic
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 1W ago

Black but not African American…Race, Mormon Culture, and Experience

Darron Smith’s latest post on his website, “I Might Look Black, But I Ain’t Like “Y’all”: Mia Love & The Paradox of Race, Gender, and Religion in American Politics,” gives me a good chance to talk about race issues especially as it relates to Mormonism…but without referring to the priesthood ban at
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 1W ago

How do Non-Mormons even RELATE to each other?

Today, I was having a minor personal crisis. I was wondering…if I had to explain a bit about myself, how would I do it? I actually know my answer to that question. If I had to explain some things about myself, then I would pick from a small pool of topics, depending on whether the [...]
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 1W ago

Orthodox Christianity and Marriage

As I was writing my earlier post about my sense that non-LDS Christianity doesn’t seem to value relationships and marriage as much as Mormonism does (and for Mormonism, relationships are so important that celibacy doesn’t really fit theologically), I realized that “non-LDS Christianity” is a pretty
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 2W ago

Non-LDS Christianity doesn’t value marriage as much as Mormonism

With Obama’s recent announcement that he supports same-sex marriage (see John’s positive thoughts on that from a perspective of encouraging public discussion), and North Carolina’s passage of Amendment 1, constitutionally enshrining a ban on gay marriage for that state, I’ve seen much discussion on
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 2W ago

Individuality and Intersectionality…at Wheat and Tares

It’s definitely late for my Wednesday morning posting time, but I’ve posted my latest post, Individuality and Intersectionality, at Wheat and Tares. The question I wanted to address with this post was…what makes an individual unique, especially when individuals also have all of these traits that all
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Irresistible (Dis)Grace · 2W ago

My Ultimate Blogging Fear

My greatest blogging fear is that people will stop caring about whatever I have to say. I am aware that over 6 billion people have never cared about what I have to say anyway, as is evidenced by the (only) 64 people who are subscribed to my blog by email, and the 91 additional folks [...]
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