ex-Mormons
What ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’ teaches us about ex-Mormons
By Jana Riess — May 30, 2023
(RNS) — Last year’s bestselling memoir of ‘a woman reckoning with love and violence’ was also a typically Mormon tale.
If you want to win Mormons back to the LDS Church, shame and fear are not the ways to do it
By Jana Riess — July 10, 2020
Fear and shame seem to be the most common tactics orthodox Mormons use to keep people in the church. There is a better way.
The five doctrines of ex-Mormonism
By Jana Riess — June 30, 2020
When Mette Harrison was an active Mormon, she found that many members of the LDS Church engaged in rigid, dogmatic thinking. Now she notices the same thing about the ex-Mormon community, just in reverse.
This is your brain on Mormon Facebook
By Jana Riess — September 18, 2019
Racially, religiously, and educationally, the small subset of former Mormons who are now involved in ex-Mormon social media groups are not representative of the whole.
Why can’t ex-Mormons just leave the LDS Church alone?
By Jana Riess — July 2, 2019
I was prepared for pushback from very orthodox Mormons who might be unwilling to admit there are serious retention problems in the U.S. LDS Church, but surprisingly, former Church members have been more resistant to the NMS survey findings.
For many former Mormons, it’s hard to be “spiritual but not religious”
By Jana Riess — April 21, 2018
Former Mormons don’t generally maintain a high level of spirituality when they decide to leave the fold, unless they become actively involved in another religion.
How to create ex-Mormons
By Jana Riess — February 5, 2018
If the #1 reason women say they left the LDS Church is because they felt judged or misunderstood, wouldn't it be awesome if Mormons could stop with the judging?
How Not to Disagree with a Mormon Apostle
By Jana Riess — October 30, 2013
It's one thing to disagree with LDS leaders, and to speak plainly and pointedly about the reasons why. It's another to be unfair, inflammatory, and even cruel.
Mormon and Evangelical Bullies Online
By Jana Riess — June 28, 2013
I've been deleting comments from angry Mormons, angry ex-Mormons, angry evangelicals who hate Mormons, and angry random guys who blog from their parents' basements while wearing only their underwear. And I am sick of the rage that's out there.
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