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CASE REPORTS OF THE MORMON ALLIANCE
VOLUME 3, 1997

Contents

Note: Page numbers refer to the printed edition.

Information about the Mormon Alliance     v
Goals of the Mormon Alliance v
Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Abuse: Definitions v
Reporting Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Abuse vii

Part 1
Losing the Sheep

Losing the Sheep: An Introduction

Lavina Fielding Anderson

3

1

Report from a Case Reporter: Challenges and Consequences

Chris Rickett

8

2

When Your Calling Gets in the Way of Your Calling

Sam Marchant

19

3

The Winnowing

Rebecca Worthen Chandler

23

4

 

A View from the Sieve

D. Jeff Burton

29

5

Getting Their Attention: The Norman Hancock Case

Lavina Fielding Anderson

35

6

 

"No File Is Ever Really Closed"

Michelle Warner Kohier

55

7

"Too Many Have Died, Too Many Have Lied..."

Andrea Moore Emmett

77

8

Devout, Then Out

Rebecca Uhlig Eagar

81

Part 2
Being Gay and Mormon

9

From the One

Tony Collette

97

10

Discouragement, Disappointment, Despair

Jeff M. Durning

122

11

Your Church

Tony West

147

12

Forced Confession

Susan Smith

159

13

An Abrahamic Sacrifice

Brent Corcoran

154

14

Sexual Terrorism

John D. Wrathall

166

Part 3
In the Mission Field and Beyond

Introduction

Lavina Fielding Anderson

185

15

Teaching at the Missionary Training Center: Awakening to Disillusionment

Maxine Hanks

186

16

President

Veronica Vörös

196

17

Church on a Pedestal—Not a Safe Place

Thomas S. Perkins

235

18

The Price of Wisdom

Kerry Winfield Bumham

243

19

Something Is Wrong with You"

Roy LeBaron

248

Part 4
Freedom of Inquiry

20

Problems of Mormon Intellectuals

William Mulder

275

21

Truth and Mistruth

B.Carmon Hardy

277

22

Truth Telling and Personal Growth in Faith Communities

May Hansen

283

Part 5
Documentary History

23

"Pushed Out of My Spiritual and Cultural Home": A Documentary Case Study

David P. Wright

291

 

Personal History

293

"In Plain Terms"

298

Selected News Clips

309

Exile to Reconstruction

343

24

A Family Church, the Family Disciplinary Council: A Personal Response

Dianne T. Wright

357

Update: 22 April 1997

David P. Wright

349

Three Years Later

Dianne T. Wright

350

Appendix: Letters of Support, Excerpts

351

Index

359