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167 things worth your time, chosen by hand from across the internet, each with one line on why it matters and a label for the side it comes from. Links were checked when this page was built.
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Books
- How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon's Guide to Rebuilding After Religion critical
The practical manual: deciding, telling people, protecting your mental health, sex, dating, politics, the first coffee. John co-wrote it. - When Mormons Doubt: A Way to Save Relationships and Seek a Quality Life neutral
Short, kind, and focused on keeping relationships whole. Jon was a guest on Mormon Transitions. - The Crucible of Doubt faithful
The most thoughtful case for faith with doubt intact. If you want to stay and need a way to think about it, start here. - The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion neutral
Why smart, good people believe different things, and why arguing rarely moves anyone. Explains your family, and you. - Combating Cult Mind Control neutral
The BITE model (behaviour, information, thought, emotion control) and how to think about undue influence without calling everyone a cultist. Hassan has spoken at Mormon Stories events. - Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion neutral
The book that named religious trauma syndrome. Not Mormon-specific and does not need to be. - Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life neutral
The book on desire and arousal that undoes most of what purity culture taught. Nagoski has been on Mormon Stories. - Educated neutral
The memoir everyone has read. A survivalist Mormon childhood in Idaho, and a mind claiming itself. Not typical of most members' lives, and unforgettable. - Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization neutral
Two sociologists, one a former Latter-day Saint, on what actually happens to people who leave religion. The finding: for most, it is not a crisis and their lives are fine. - Torn: Why People We Love Are Leaving the Church and What We Can Learn from Them faithful
A former bishop, mission president and BYU faculty member, still believing, on why sincere members leave, from surveys of more than 20,000 current and former members. The book to hand a believing parent or leader. - No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools, No Belief Required neutral
A former Latter-day Saint's practical guide to a spiritual life without supernatural belief: meaning, ritual, awe, community. Britt's Mormon Stories episodes on the same subject are among the most useful in the archive.
Podcasts
- Year of Polygamy neutral
The definitive podcast on Mormon plural marriage, told largely through the women who lived it. - Marriage on a Tightrope neutral
A believing wife and a non-believing husband recording their mixed-faith marriage in real time, for years. They were guests on episodes 40 to 42. - Faith Matters faithful
The most thoughtful "expansive" faithful voice: podcasts and gatherings for members who want a bigger, kinder Mormonism. - Mormon Stories Podcast critical
Two thousand long-form interviews since 2005. The stories on this site come from here. - Latter Day Struggles neutral
A therapist's podcast on faith expansion and mixed-faith relationships, with courses and groups behind it. Many people's companion in the middle stage. - Radio Free Mormon critical
Sharp, funny, well-argued commentary on Church claims and current events. - At Last She Said It faithful
Two believing women saying what Latter-day Saint women think and do not say. Send it to a believing wife or mother.
Videos & channels
- Nemo the Mormon critical
A British former bishop's calm, documented videos on Church claims and conduct. - Alyssa Grenfell critical
Funny, practical videos on leaving and living after. Co-author of How to Leave the Mormon Church. - Cults to Consciousness critical
Interviews with survivors of high-demand religion, Mormon and otherwise, by a former devout member. Big and well produced.
Films & series
- The Truman Show neutral
The film every former Latter-day Saint mentions first. You will know why in the last ten minutes.
Websites
- Mormon Stories Truth Claims critical
Our own organised walk through the historical and doctrinal questions, topic by topic, with sources and the relevant episodes. - Gospel Topics Essays faithful
The Church's own acknowledgement of the hard history (polygamy, the priesthood ban, the Book of Abraham, seer stones). Read these first; they settle what is not in dispute. - LDS Discussions critical
Careful, sourced essays on every major issue, written by a former believer who checked the apologetic answers. The podcast series with Mormon Stories walks through them. - FAIR (Faithful Answers, Informed Response) faithful
The main apologetic organisation. You should know the best case for the Church's claims before you decide about them; this is where it lives. - QuitMormon critical
Free resignation from Church membership through an attorney, so no bishop's visit and no membership council. The standard route. - wasmormon.org critical
Hundreds of personal profiles of people who left, in their own words. Add yours when you are ready. - Exponent II faithful
Fifty years of Mormon feminist writing, from women active, inactive and out. Essential for women in transition. - The Widow's Mite Report neutral
The independent analysis of the Church's finances. Read before you decide about tithing. - PostMormonLife critical
A well-organised directory of resources by topic, with faithful-friendly items labelled. The best of the other link lists. - Why Mormons Leave neutral
Our sister site: how many people are leaving, why, and what happens next, with every number sourced, twenty reason pages, and first-hand voices. Send it to a believing family member or a reporter.
Articles & papers
- Understanding Mormon Disbelief (survey report) neutral
Our survey of 3,086 people who once believed and no longer do. Why they left, who they told, what it cost. Summarised on the data page. - How to Stay in the LDS Church After a Major Challenge to Your Faith faithful
John's guide, written while he was trying to stay, for people who want to keep their family and community and lower their expectations of the institution. Still the most-used document of its kind.
Communities
- THRIVE Beyond Religion neutral
Regional day-long gatherings, a weekly online support group on Sundays at 10 a.m. Mountain time, and local groups. Grew out of the 2019 conference the podcast covered. - Mormon Stories Podcast Community (Facebook) critical
The largest moderated online community for people in transition. Ask anything; someone has been through it. - r/exmormon critical
Huge, anonymous, fast, and often angry. Useful for information and for feeling less alone; less useful for healing. Take breaks.
Organisations
- Mormon Mental Health Association neutral
Clinicians who work with Latter-day Saints across the whole spectrum of belief, with a provider list. Not affiliated with the Church. - Secular Therapy Project neutral
A vetted directory of licensed therapists who use evidence-based, non-religious approaches. Good when you need someone who will not pray with you. - Recovering from Religion neutral
A helpline you can call or chat with any time (84-I-DOUBT-IT), peer support groups around the world, and the Secular Therapy Project. Not Mormon-specific, and that is sometimes exactly what you want. - Reclamation Collective neutral
Online support groups for religious trauma and a directory of trauma-informed clinicians by state and province.
Therapists & coaches
- Natasha Helfer, LMFT, CST neutral
Co-host of the podcast, certified sex therapist, and the clinician most Latter-day Saints in transition have learned sexual health from. Courses, groups and therapy.
Side labels: critical argues the Church's truth claims fail; faithful argues for staying or believing; neutral is scholarship or support that does not take a side. We show all three on purpose. ⭐ marks our picks.
Books 50
How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon's Guide to Rebuilding After Religion
Alyssa Grenfell and John Dehlin, 2024
The practical manual: deciding, telling people, protecting your mental health, sex, dating, politics, the first coffee. John co-wrote it.
Open · Bookshop.org Leaving and resigningFirst stepsPractical mattersIdentity
When Mormons Doubt: A Way to Save Relationships and Seek a Quality Life
Jon Ogden
Short, kind, and focused on keeping relationships whole. Jon was a guest on Mormon Transitions.
Psychology of beliefMarriage and mixed-faithParents and family
The Crucible of Doubt
Terryl and Fiona Givens
The most thoughtful case for faith with doubt intact. If you want to stay and need a way to think about it, start here.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
Why smart, good people believe different things, and why arguing rarely moves anyone. Explains your family, and you.
Combating Cult Mind Control
Steven Hassan
The BITE model (behaviour, information, thought, emotion control) and how to think about undue influence without calling everyone a cultist. Hassan has spoken at Mormon Stories events.
Open · Freedom of Mind High-demand religionPsychology of belief
Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion
Marlene Winell
The book that named religious trauma syndrome. Not Mormon-specific and does not need to be.
Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski
The book on desire and arousal that undoes most of what purity culture taught. Nagoski has been on Mormon Stories.
Educated
Tara Westover
The memoir everyone has read. A survivalist Mormon childhood in Idaho, and a mind claiming itself. Not typical of most members' lives, and unforgettable.
Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization
Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith
Two sociologists, one a former Latter-day Saint, on what actually happens to people who leave religion. The finding: for most, it is not a crisis and their lives are fine.
Torn: Why People We Love Are Leaving the Church and What We Can Learn from Them
Jeff Strong, foreword by Steve Young
A former bishop, mission president and BYU faculty member, still believing, on why sincere members leave, from surveys of more than 20,000 current and former members. The book to hand a believing parent or leader.
No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools, No Belief Required
Brittney L. Hartley
A former Latter-day Saint's practical guide to a spiritual life without supernatural belief: meaning, ritual, awe, community. Britt's Mormon Stories episodes on the same subject are among the most useful in the archive.
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Richard Lyman Bushman
The believing scholar's biography that first told many members about the seer stone and the polygamy. Honest and readable.
Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet
John G. Turner
The 2025 biography by a non-Mormon historian, and the basis of the Joseph Smith Podcast.
No Man Knows My History
Fawn M. Brodie
The 1945 biography that got Brodie excommunicated and is still the best-written. John narrates the audiobook.
An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
Grant H. Palmer
A CES institute director's short, calm summary of the problems with the founding stories. Many people's first book.
The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy
Carol Lynn Pearson
A believing poet on the doctrine that still haunts Mormon women and men. Gentle and devastating.
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Wright
How the modern Church was made, from the diaries of a prophet's secretary. Explains why the institution behaves as it does.
Navigating Mormon Faith Crisis: A Simple Developmental Map
Thomas Wirthlin McConkie
A stages-of-faith model from a believing contemplative. Helpful for understanding why your beliefs changed shape, whatever you do next.
Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
Patrick Q. Mason
A believing historian on staying planted while acknowledging the problems. Pairs with Crucible of Doubt.
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz
On what it feels like to have been certain and wrong, and why that is the most human thing there is.
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Cognitive dissonance explained. You will recognise the Church's behaviour, your family's, and your own former self.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
How humans came to organise around shared stories. Reframes religion as one such story among many.
Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control
Luna Lindsey
Applies the influence research specifically to Mormonism. Detailed and sometimes hard to read, in a useful way.
Faith After Doubt
Brian D. McLaren
A four-stage model of faith (simplicity, complexity, perplexity, harmony) from a former evangelical pastor. Many Latter-day Saints find their own story in it.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman and Nan Silver
The research-based basics of a marriage that lasts. Faith differences are survivable when these are in place.
Getting the Love You Want
Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt
The Imago approach to couples. Recommended by Natasha throughout the marriage episodes.
Parenting Beyond Belief
Dale McGowan (editor)
Raising ethical, curious children without religion, from people who have done it.
The Conscious Parent
Shefali Tsabary
Parenting from presence rather than control. Margi's most-recommended parenting book.
The Good Divorce
Constance Ahrons
When a marriage does not survive, this is how to end it without wrecking the children.
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
The standard book on how trauma lives in the body and what actually helps.
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
Shame, perfectionism and worthiness, which is most of what a high-demand religion leaves behind.
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Elizabeth Lesser
On the idea that the crisis is the doorway. Margi's book for the grief stage.
Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy
Tina Schermer Sellers
Written for people from conservative Christianity, and it fits Mormonism exactly.
For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Sexuality, Values, and Health
Al Vernacchio
How to talk to your teenagers about sex now that "don't" is no longer the whole plan.
The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
Emily Esfahani Smith
The research on what makes a life feel meaningful (belonging, purpose, storytelling, transcendence), none of which requires a church.
Braving the Wilderness
Brené Brown
On belonging to yourself first, which is what leaving a tribe requires.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle
Presence without dogma. The book Margi read first.
Leaving the Witness
Amber Scorah
Leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, and everything that goes with leaving a high-demand religion. Amber spoke at THRIVE Day (episode 66).
Bad Mormon
Heather Gay
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star's memoir of a Mormon life and its unravelling. Light, honest, widely read.
The Sound of Gravel
Ruth Wariner
Growing up in a polygamist colony in Mexico. A fundamentalist story, but many mainstream members recognise the machinery.
Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer
The 1984 Lafferty murders braided with early Church history. Gripping, and criticised by historians for the braiding; read it knowing that.
Faith Shift: Finding Your Way Forward When Everything You Believe Is Coming Apart
Kathy Escobar
A pastor's map of unravelling and rebuilding, written for evangelicals and used by many Latter-day Saints.
Stages of Faith
James W. Fowler
The 1981 developmental model behind most "stages" talk, including Thomas McConkie's. Academic but readable.
In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Todd Compton
The lives of the women Joseph Smith married, one chapter each. The book that made polygamy real to a generation of members.
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
Emma's life, including what polygamy did to her marriage. Its authors were banned from speaking in Church settings when it came out.
Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Matthew L. Harris
The definitive history of the priesthood and temple ban, and the basis of the Second-Class Saints podcast.
The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction
Terryl Givens
A believing scholar's short, honest account of what the book is and how it has been read. Good for arguing about it fairly.
The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
Jana Riess
The 2016 Next Mormons Survey in book form: who is leaving, who is staying, and what the generations believe. The other big dataset alongside our own.
The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith
Joanna Brooks
A feminist scholar's memoir of growing up Mormon, leaving, and finding a way to stay on her own terms. Warm, and widely loved on both sides.
Podcasts 24
Year of Polygamy
Lindsay Hansen Park
The definitive podcast on Mormon plural marriage, told largely through the women who lived it.
Marriage on a Tightrope
Allan and Kattie Mount
A believing wife and a non-believing husband recording their mixed-faith marriage in real time, for years. They were guests on episodes 40 to 42.
Faith Matters
Faith Matters Foundation
The most thoughtful "expansive" faithful voice: podcasts and gatherings for members who want a bigger, kinder Mormonism.
Mormon Stories Podcast
John Dehlin and the Open Stories Foundation
Two thousand long-form interviews since 2005. The stories on this site come from here.
Latter Day Struggles
Valerie Hamaker
A therapist's podcast on faith expansion and mixed-faith relationships, with courses and groups behind it. Many people's companion in the middle stage.
Podcasts and videoMarriage and mixed-faithPsychology of belief
Radio Free Mormon
Radio Free Mormon
Sharp, funny, well-argued commentary on Church claims and current events.
At Last She Said It
Cynthia Winward and Susan Hinckley
Two believing women saying what Latter-day Saint women think and do not say. Send it to a believing wife or mother.
The Joseph Smith Podcast
John Dehlin with historian John G. Turner
A chronological walk through Joseph Smith's life, one chapter of Turner's 2025 biography at a time. If your questions are about the founder, start here.
The Brigham Young Podcast
John Dehlin with historian John G. Turner
The same treatment for Brigham Young, weekly.
Second-Class Saints
John Dehlin with historian Matthew Harris
The priesthood and temple ban, from its origins to 1978 and after.
Where Should We Begin?
Esther Perel
Real couples in real sessions with the best-known couples therapist alive. You will hear your own marriage.
Secular Buddhism
Noah Rasheta
A former Latter-day Saint teaching Buddhist practice without the supernatural. Noah told his story on Mormon Transitions.
Mormon Transitions (2016–2017)
John and Margi Dehlin
The series before this one, on the same questions. Archived on this site with audio.
Mormon Discussions
Bill Reel and others
A network of podcasts from a former bishop, including Mormon Discussion and Radio Free Mormon.
Mormonism Live!
Radio Free Mormon and Bill Reel
Weekly live show on Church claims, history and news from two of the sharpest critical voices. Video and audio.
Mormon Land
The Salt Lake Tribune
The newspaper of record's weekly Latter-day Saint podcast, with Peggy Fletcher Stack. The calm, journalistic view of what the Church is doing.
Sunstone podcasts
Sunstone Education Foundation
Symposium sessions and interviews from the place where believers, doubters and former members have talked to each other since 1974.
Viral Virtue with Jordan and McKay
Jordan and McKay
Funny, sharp conversations on purity culture, shame, sexuality and leaving fundamentalism, from two former Latter-day Saints.
Siblings in Zion
Dan and Lisa
Two ex-Mormon siblings on culture, belief, atheism and growing up. Warm and unhurried.
Latter Day Lesbian
Mary and Mimi
Two women who left the Church and married each other, on the queer Mormon experience with a lot of laughter.
Thank God I'm Atheist
Dan and Frank
Two former Latter-day Saints on religion and the news, weekly since 2011. For when you need to laugh at it.
Beyond the Block
Beyond the Block
Believing hosts on gospel topics outside the manual. For someone staying who wants a bigger conversation.
Videos & channels 11
Nemo the Mormon
Nemo
A British former bishop's calm, documented videos on Church claims and conduct.
Alyssa Grenfell
Alyssa Grenfell
Funny, practical videos on leaving and living after. Co-author of How to Leave the Mormon Church.
Cults to Consciousness
Shelise Ann Sola
Interviews with survivors of high-demand religion, Mormon and otherwise, by a former devout member. Big and well produced.
How to Fortify Your Mormon Mixed-Faith Relationship (webinar)
Natasha Helfer with John Dehlin
Six hours on understanding a faith transition's effect on a relationship, marital strategies, and parenting in a mixed-faith home.
The Power of Vulnerability (TED talk)
Brené Brown
Twenty minutes that many people in faith transition say changed them.
10 Things You Should Know About Healthy Sex (Laci Green)
Laci Green at THRIVE 2019
Episodes 62 and 63 of the podcast: a sex educator's basics for people who never got them.
Mormon Faith Crisis on YouTube
John Dehlin, Margi Dehlin, Natasha Helfer
Every episode of the podcast as video.
Exmo Lex
Lex
Very open videos on the Mormon experience, culture and history from a woman who left in public.
Brother Jake
Brother Jake
Short satirical explainers of Church claims. Ten years old and still passed around.
Films & series 8
The Truman Show
The film every former Latter-day Saint mentions first. You will know why in the last ten minutes.
Going Clear
Scientology, but the mechanisms of belief and exit will feel familiar.
Wild Wild Country
A six-part documentary on a new religious movement, and on how sincere people end up where they end up.
Moana
For the children, and for you: the one who leaves the island is the one who saves it.
Websites 26
Mormon Stories Truth Claims
Open Stories Foundation
Our own organised walk through the historical and doctrinal questions, topic by topic, with sources and the relevant episodes.
Gospel Topics Essays
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church's own acknowledgement of the hard history (polygamy, the priesthood ban, the Book of Abraham, seer stones). Read these first; they settle what is not in dispute.
LDS Discussions
Mike (LDS Discussions), with Mormon Stories
Careful, sourced essays on every major issue, written by a former believer who checked the apologetic answers. The podcast series with Mormon Stories walks through them.
FAIR (Faithful Answers, Informed Response)
FAIR
The main apologetic organisation. You should know the best case for the Church's claims before you decide about them; this is where it lives.
QuitMormon
Mark Naugle, attorney
Free resignation from Church membership through an attorney, so no bishop's visit and no membership council. The standard route.
wasmormon.org
wasmormon.org
Hundreds of personal profiles of people who left, in their own words. Add yours when you are ready.
Exponent II
Exponent II
Fifty years of Mormon feminist writing, from women active, inactive and out. Essential for women in transition.
The Widow's Mite Report
Anonymous finance professionals
The independent analysis of the Church's finances. Read before you decide about tithing.
PostMormonLife
PostMormonLife
A well-organised directory of resources by topic, with faithful-friendly items labelled. The best of the other link lists.
Why Mormons Leave
Open Stories Foundation
Our sister site: how many people are leaving, why, and what happens next, with every number sourced, twenty reason pages, and first-hand voices. Send it to a believing family member or a reporter.
The CES Letter
Jeremy Runnells
The most widely read critical document of the past decade. Blunt and comprehensive; read the apologetic replies alongside it.
The Joseph Smith Papers
The Church Historian's Press
The primary sources themselves, published by the Church. When two sides disagree about what a document says, read the document.
Mormonr
B. H. Roberts Foundation
A newer faithful project that lays out sources on contested questions in a calm, tabular way. Useful for seeing what believers concede.
Utah Lighthouse Ministry
Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Fifty years of primary-source criticism from an evangelical couple. Dated in style, still unmatched for documents.
Dialogue, a Journal of Mormon Thought
Dialogue Foundation
Sixty years of independent Mormon scholarship, all online and free. Where the serious conversations have happened.
Uplift Kids
Uplift Kids
A values-and-wisdom curriculum for families that want something like family home evening without the doctrine. Built by nuanced and former Latter-day Saints.
General Handbook, chapter 32: Repentance and Church Membership Councils
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
What the Church's own rules say about resignation, councils and records. Read it before you assume.
Psychology Today therapist finder
Psychology Today
The biggest directory. Search your area and look for "religious trauma", "faith transition" or "spirituality" in the profile; the "LDS/Mormon" filter mostly finds believing therapists.
Mormon Stories crisis information page
Mormon Stories
Our longer list, including military, LGBTQ, legal and abuse lines.
Wayfare magazine
Faith Matters
Essays and art from the expansive-faithful wing. Send it to a believing spouse who reads.
By Common Consent
BCC
The longest-running thoughtful Mormon blog, mostly believing, often critical of the institution. The "cafeteria Mormon" essay John cites is here.
Wheat and Tares
Wheat and Tares
A group blog across the whole spectrum of belief, with regular posts on faith transitions and nuanced membership.
FLOODLIT
FLOODLIT volunteers
A database of sexual-abuse cases connected to the Church, from court records and verified reporting. For survivors who want to know they were not the only one.
Dare to Doubt
Dare to Doubt
A calm hub for people leaving any harmful belief system, with mental-health and community resources that are not Mormon-specific.
Articles & papers 6
Understanding Mormon Disbelief (survey report)
John Dehlin, with S. Holley and M. McKeown, 2012
Our survey of 3,086 people who once believed and no longer do. Why they left, who they told, what it cost. Summarised on the data page.
How to Stay in the LDS Church After a Major Challenge to Your Faith
John Dehlin, 2007
John's guide, written while he was trying to stay, for people who want to keep their family and community and lower their expectations of the institution. Still the most-used document of its kind.
LDS Personal Faith Crisis report (2013)
Commissioned by Church leadership; leaked
The Church's own internal study of members in faith crisis. Reaches the same conclusions our survey did a year earlier.
LDS Women Project, mixed-faith marriage series
LDS Women Project
Believing women married to non-believing husbands, in their own words. Send it to a believing spouse.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Scrupulosity (paper)
Michael Twohig, John Dehlin and colleagues, Behavior Modification
John's master's research: an evidence-based treatment for religious OCD. Show it to your therapist.
LDS Donations: What the Church Doesn't Want You to Know
Mormon Stories
Tithing, the Ensign Peak fund and the SEC settlement, in one place. Relevant when deciding about tithing.
Communities 13
THRIVE Beyond Religion
THRIVE Foundation
Regional day-long gatherings, a weekly online support group on Sundays at 10 a.m. Mountain time, and local groups. Grew out of the 2019 conference the podcast covered.
Mormon Stories Podcast Community (Facebook)
Mormon Stories
The largest moderated online community for people in transition. Ask anything; someone has been through it.
r/exmormon
Huge, anonymous, fast, and often angry. Useful for information and for feeling less alone; less useful for healing. Take breaks.
Thoughtful Transitions
Thoughtful Transitions
A long-running support community for people stepping away from the Church.
PostMormon.org
Post-Mormon Community
The original local-chapter network from the 2000s. Mostly dormant now; listed for its archive and in case a chapter near you still meets.
r/exmormon Discord
r/exmormon
Live chat for people questioning or out. Faster and more personal than the subreddit.
Mormon Mixed-Faith Marriages (Facebook)
Facebook group
Couples in mixed-faith marriages helping each other, believers welcome.
Thoughtful Transitions (Facebook)
Facebook group
A long-running moderated support group for people stepping away.
Organisations 21
Mormon Mental Health Association
MMHA
Clinicians who work with Latter-day Saints across the whole spectrum of belief, with a provider list. Not affiliated with the Church.
Secular Therapy Project
Recovering from Religion
A vetted directory of licensed therapists who use evidence-based, non-religious approaches. Good when you need someone who will not pray with you.
Recovering from Religion
Recovering from Religion
A helpline you can call or chat with any time (84-I-DOUBT-IT), peer support groups around the world, and the Secular Therapy Project. Not Mormon-specific, and that is sometimes exactly what you want.
Reclamation Collective
Reclamation Collective
Online support groups for religious trauma and a directory of trauma-informed clinicians by state and province.
Sunstone
Sunstone Education Foundation
A magazine, a podcast and a yearly symposium where believers, doubters and former members talk to each other in the same room.
Queer Mormon Therapists directory
Queer Mormon Therapists
Therapists for LGBTQ+ people with a Mormon background.
LGBTQ+-Affirmative Psychotherapist Guild of Utah
The Guild
Utah therapists who are safe for LGBTQ+ clients.
Affirmation
Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families and Friends
The oldest organisation for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints and former Latter-day Saints, with local chapters and a yearly conference.
Mama Dragons
Mama Dragons
Mothers of LGBTQ children, many of them Latter-day Saints, supporting each other.
Lift+Love
Lift+Love
Believing Latter-day Saint families of LGBTQ people. Useful for believing parents who need a bridge.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project
Crisis support for LGBTQ young people, 24 hours: call 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678.
Truth and Transparency Foundation
Truth and Transparency (formerly MormonLeaks)
Leaked internal documents, published with sourcing. Where the Church's own paperwork surfaces.
Religious Trauma Institute
Laura Anderson, LMFT
Training for clinicians and workshops for survivors of religious trauma and purity culture.
Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
Open Path
Affordable therapy (sliding scale) from licensed clinicians across the US, for people without insurance or means.
International OCD Foundation therapist finder
IOCDF
Where to find a clinician who actually treats OCD, including scrupulosity, by location.
Therapists & coaches 6
Natasha Helfer, LMFT, CST
Natasha Helfer
Co-host of the podcast, certified sex therapist, and the clinician most Latter-day Saints in transition have learned sexual health from. Courses, groups and therapy.
Jennifer Finlayson-Fife
Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, Ph.D.
A believing therapist who teaches sexual health to Latter-day Saint couples. Good for a believing spouse who will not read anyone else.
Julie de Azevedo Hanks, Ph.D.
Julie Hanks
A Latter-day Saint therapist and author on women's emotional health; safe for believing women in a mixed-faith marriage.
John Bonner, LCSW
John Bonner
A gay former Latter-day Saint therapist who told his story on Mormon Transitions.
Claudine Foudray (coaching)
Claudine Foudray
Post-Mormon coaching; formerly listed as Claudine Gallacher.
Music 2
Excommunication
Tyler Glenn
The Neon Trees singer's album about leaving, made in the year of the 2015 policy.
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