A POST-MORMON LIFE

              I have tried three times to have my name removed from the membership rolls of theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...

        I have been having long-running issues with a co-worker, one that I have been trying to ameliorate for a full six months, ever since...

Source         Back in the days when I was a believing Mormon, my church-mates and I often touted the busy-ness of our lives as a mark o...

Source Recently, I started a new job teaching anatomy and physiology.  I have a pretty comprehensive background in developmental ...

Satire (noun): the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose or criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularl...

          The book “Elders”, written by Ryan McIlvain, features two LDS (Mormon) missionaries as they go about proseletyzing in th...

          I am guilty, even now, of assuming that never-Mormons can never fully understand Mormon culture. Some of this attitude is a resul...

          I have stated multiple times that I was in my mid-twenties when I found out that Joseph Smith had married multiple...

Note: This post is part of a two-part series.  Part One can be found here          After the schism, I was sent to the seminary class he...

           The "19th Wife", by David Ebershoff, is a novel that alternates between the narrative of Ann Eliza Young, the 19t...

          There have been a few changes within Mormonism this past year.  First, the General Authorities announced a change in missionar...

          Polygamy is a touchy subject for many Mormons. Mention the word polygamy to a faithful Mormon and you will observe an almost u...

                As far back as I can remember, the leaders have promised that if a person has the faith to pay tithing, then “ the Lord wi...

          These past few years, I have been noticing an unusual phenomenon - the presence of liberal feminist Mormon women.  Between Femin...

          I was a fourteen-year old girl attending a Mormon camp called “Especially For Youth”.  After a seminar meant to excite the youth...

         My friend Billy* was a year younger than I was, a sweet kid with brown hair that curled into ringlets and enormous blue eyes.  He...

          As a child, my family and I used to attend the Hill Cumorah pageant every year, which is a large theatrical production put on ev...

          A couple weeks ago, I read “The Girls From Fourth Ward” by Donna Banta .  The book was a dark romp into the world of teenaged M...

          I was raised to believe that drinking coffee was a sin.  No one in my family touched the black liquid; to bring coffee into my h...

          There is a perception among Mormons that people who choose to leave the Church do so because they are prideful, or because they ...