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Alyssa Grenfell is an American author, YouTuber, and former member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). She is best known for her YouTube content and her memoir How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon's Guide to Rebuilding After Religion (2023).
Beck is the daughter of Hugh Nibley, a deceased scholar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and apologist. She received national attention after publication in 2005 of her best-seller, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith in which she recounts her experiences of surviving sexual abuse.
Most ex-Mormons leave Mormonism and the LDS or RLDS Church because of intellectual reasons for finding the religion false or practices of Mormon organizations. The foremost reasons are disbelief both in Joseph Smith as a prophet [6] [7] and in the Book of Mormon as a religious and historical document.
David Archuleta, former "American Idol" star, talks to NBC News about how he's reinventing himself with new music and a memoir in the works after coming out as queer in 2021 and leaving the Mormon ...
Martha Nibley Beck, daughter of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley and author of bestseller Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith. Sarissa Hahn, Entrepreneur; Steve Benson, cartoonist and grandson of LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson [95] Patrick Califia, sexuality writer; Brian Evenson, American writer of literary and ...
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives features tons of scandalous moments, but how does it all square with the women's shared faith?. The ladies of Momtok are a combination of practicing and former ...
The CES Letter, along with a book published by Egyptologist Robert K. Ritner and the reactions generated by apologists were influential in the 2014 release by the LDS Church of an essay addressing historical inaccuracies in the Book of Abraham. [2]
Palmer asserts that he was disfellowshipped from the LDS Church in December 2004 as a result of his book, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, which was skeptical of Mormonism's claimed origins (being disfellowshipped results in probational loss of some church privileges without being forced to leave the church).