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  • TRUTH RESTORED

    TRUTH RESTORED

    For­mer LDS Church his­to­ri­an D Michael Quinn has quot­ed the fol­low­ing remarks giv­en to him dur­ing the course of an inter­view with Elder Boyd K Pack­er, then an Apos­tle of the LDS…

  • Before the facts, it didn’t make sense

    Before the facts, it didn’t make sense

    I’m new to this site and hap­py to share my experience. Five years ago my wife and I were very active, both hold­ing call­ings and try­ing to get out to activ­i­ties often.…

  • It’s all about trust

    It’s all about trust

    There are hun­dreds of rea­sons to believe or not believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat­ter-day Saints is true. For me I no longer believe it is true in the way…

  • The Book of Mormon Came in a Box

    The Book of Mormon Came in a Box

    “There­fore speak I to them in para­bles: because they see­ing see not; and hear­ing they hear not, nei­ther do they understand.” - Matthew 13:13 When I mar­ried my sweet­heart at the age…

  • Knowledge and our younger generations

    Knowledge and our younger generations

    3Ne 26:11 “Behold, I was about to write them, all which were engraven upon the plates of Nephi, but the Lord for­bade it, say­ing: I will try the faith of my people.”…

  • Accept all things in faith

    Accept all things in faith

    Car­son, I am not raised in the Church but rather I am a “con­vert”. In decid­ing, through much prayer and read­ing, I decid­ed to be Bap­tized ful­ly aware that I might not have…

  • I Desire to Understand

    I Desire to Understand

    Years ago when my son left the church, I chose to dig deep and find the answers to the dif­fi­cult ques­tions about church his­to­ry and its doctrine. I went into this ven­ture…

  • Riding the Wake of 60 Years of the Good Ship Zion

    Riding the Wake of 60 Years of the Good Ship Zion

    It’s Christ­mas­time 2015. I’m 61 years old, a lov­ing hus­band, father of four, grand­fa­ther of nine and — eight months into the Post-Mor­mon por­tion of my life. The past two years of tran­si­tion…

  • An Evening with Zhenya

    An Evening with Zhenya

    For the LDS Ven­tu­ra Cal­i­for­nia stake Relief Soci­ety on 17 March 1992 In com­mem­o­ra­tion of the 150th anniver­sary of the Relief Society Writ­ten and per­formed by Eugene Kovalenko - Lis­ten to the record­ing of…

  • The ‘wrong’ answer to prayers

    The ‘wrong’ answer to prayers

    This is the let­ter I wrote to my fam­i­ly telling them I was leav­ing the mor­mon church and why. I post­ed it to Face­book so I did­n’t have to explain it 13,000…

  • Born to apostatize

    Born to apostatize

    From a very ear­ly time, every­one in our ward knew I was going to hell. I tried to live up to the teach­ings of the church, but peo­ple could just look at me and…

  • No longer a member

    No longer a member

    I grew up in Utah in a Mor­mon house­hold. I was one of those who always asked why and was always told you just need to believe. That nev­er worked for me.  When…