Local Author, Alyssa Grenfell Discusses her New Book: How to Leave The Mormon Church
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For two self-identified “Exmormons,” our conservation nevertheless begins in a way that feels entrenched in Mormonism. “We might be cousins,” says Alyssa Grenfell, author of How to Leave the Mormon Church. We both descend from the same Mormon polygamist stock. 170 years after our Mormon pioneer family arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, Grenfell disavowed the faith of her forebears. In her book, she contemplates if those ancestors would be disappointed in her or respect her conviction for leaving the Mormon church.
“I like to think the same wild conviction that drove my ancestors to convert to Mormonism and then risk death by crossing to Utah is the same wild conviction that drove me to leave the church,” she writes. “The same recklessness compelled me to write a book that may mean certain family members will never speak to me again.”
How to Leave the Mormon Church is for those whose convictions have also led them away from the Mormon Church. Whatever the reasons, extricating oneself from a high-demand religion risks severing relationships with family, friends and community.
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