It was 1995. I'd had doubts for years that I'd been tamping down, but that year I moved from Utah to New York City. I met an excommunicated Mormon there who had written an essay called "God and I" that shook me to my bones because it called into question and ridiculed so many things that I still thought were sacred. I was so shaken that I decided I needed to do my own reading and become Forum: Recovery Board
Did anyone else see this lovely short documentary on the New York Times site today? I found it quite moving, and, even though I'm straight, very familiar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/opinion/elder-a-mormon-love-story.html Forum: Recovery Board
My mission memoir The Accidental Terrorist, which oddcouplet mentioned up above, will be out this fall. It's available for pre-order now, in fact:
http://www.accidentalterrorist.com/ Forum: Recovery Board