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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 ...
[‡ 4] He served a two-year mission in Tijuana, Mexico and identified as a devout Mormon but has since left the church after the birth of his first son. [‡ 5] Harris' great-great-great-grandparents, Robert Harris and Hannah Eagles, originally came from Wales, where they were converted by a Mormon missionary. [13]
Lynn K. Wilder (born 1952) is a Christian author and former Brigham Young University (BYU) professor. She became well known for discussing how she left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the 2011 video-documentary Unveiling Grace.
The Tanners, who are ex-Mormon, [2]: 38 printed original versions of early Mormon writings and scripture in which they annotated and highlighted doctrinal changes, such as the rejection of Brigham Young's "Adam–God doctrine". They jointly published more than 40 books about many aspects of the LDS Church, primarily its history. [2]: 38
Mormon missionaries have been portrayed in various popular culture media. Missionaries are the main focus of Mormon cinema films God's Army (1999), The Other Side of Heaven (2001), The Best Two Years (2003), The R.M. (2003), God's Army 2: States of Grace (2005), The Errand of Angels (2008), and The Saratov Approach (2013).
The Mormon-affiliated Deseret Nation (#DezNat) community on Twitter, while praised by conservative members of the Church, has been criticized as inciting violence against transgender individuals and the broader LGBTQ community, ex-Mormon apostates (blood atonement), and pornographic film actors. [21]
The 1998 kidnapping of Mormon missionaries in Saratov, Russia involved the abduction of two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Andrew Lee Propst and Travis Robert Tuttle, on March 18, 1998. [1] One of the kidnappers had a friend invite the missionaries to his apartment in Saratov, Russia.
Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families, & Friends is an international organization for individuals who identify as gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, queer, intersex, or same-sex attracted, and their family members, friends, and church leaders who are members or former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).