A col­lec­tion of self-pub­lished essays, per­son­al accounts, and long-form stud­ies by peo­ple who once believed and began to ask ques­tions. The longer works are gath­ered here as books — read them chap­ter by chap­ter, at your own pace.

Essays & Stories

A ran­dom selec­tion · stand­alone pieces from contributors

All essays

Lead­er­ship Joseph Smith’s Polygamy Denials bwv549 · March 2017 Ques­tion­ing Faith of a nat­u­ral­ist: response to “Faith of a Sci­ence Teacher” questions bwv549 · March 2017 Doc­trine Let­ter to par­ents: Thoughts on the Word of Wisdom bwv549 · Feb­ru­ary 2016 Polygamy Joseph Smith and Polyandry Dave Mack · July 2016 Sto­ry Before the facts, it didn’t make sense rob mark · May 2017 Lead­er­ship The 1832 First Vision account was sup­pressed between 11 and ~30 years. bwv549 · June 2016

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