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Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:51 pm
by malkie
On another thread,
2bizE wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:32 am
Is there a list of MoPogists who have left the church?
Below is a list of all of the prominent critics of the church that I know of who have joined the church:
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Feel free to add to this list.
ETA: to be sure, I'm not knowledgeable on this topic - there could be hundreds, for all I know
Re: Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:02 pm
by Fence Sitter
He does not fit the criteria of being a critic, but Don Bradley left the church and has since rejoined it.
Re: Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:13 pm
by malkie
Fence Sitter wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:02 pm
He does not fit the criteria of being a critic, but Don Bradley left the church and has since rejoined it.
I thought, briefly, about Don. I agree that he didn't fit as a critic - nor, for that matter, as an apologist.
In spite of that he's the closest I could think of.
Re: Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 10:31 pm
by drumdude
Does Lavina Fielding Anderson count?
Wikipedia wrote:She was excommunicated September 23 for apostasy, allegedly because of her article "The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology" in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She also wrote chapter 9, "The Grammar of Inequity" in the book Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism (1992).
Anderson continues to attend LDS Church services as a non-member. She writes on Mormon issues, including editing the multi-volume Case Reports of the Mormon Alliance, an ongoing collection of interviews with Mormons who believe they were unfairly disciplined by the church. After her husband's death in 2018, Anderson's bishop approached her about reinstatement, the first ecclesiastical leader in the twenty-four years since she was excommunicated to do so.
The stake high council and regional council recommended to the First Presidency that she be reinstated, but on August 27, 2019, they received a denial without an explanation.
Anderson continues to attend weekly church services and published in 2020 a collection of essays regarding inclusiveness and gender inequality in her book Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church.
The first presidency says
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Re: Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:03 am
by wenglund
Korihor tried to come back. but couldn't be trusted.
But, you may have a point. Once people leave the light and more fully embrace the darkness, it is unlikely they will comprehend or embrace the light again.
Thanks, Wade Englund
Re: Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:11 am
by Doctor Scratch
Nice to see you around, Wade. I’m curious, though: whatever became of your Center for Same-Sex Attraction Disorders project? (That’s what it was called, right?)
Re: Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:16 am
by drumdude
wenglund wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:03 am
Korihor tried to come back. but couldn't be trusted.
But, you may have a point. Once people leave the light and more fully embrace the darkness, it is unlikely they will comprehend or embrace the light again.
Thanks, Wade Englund
LOL
You're a real Mormon, Wade.
Re: Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 7:24 am
by IHAQ
Doctor Scratch wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:11 am
Nice to see you around, Wade. I’m curious, though: whatever became of your Center for Same-Sex Attraction Disorders project? (That’s what it was called, right?)
Are you joking?
Re: Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 11:25 am
by Dr. Shades
IHAQ wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 7:24 am
Doctor Scratch wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:11 am
Nice to see you around, Wade. I’m curious, though: whatever became of your Center for Same-Sex Attraction Disorders project? (That’s what it was called, right?)
Are you joking?
He isn't. See:
Center for the Study of Sexual Attraction Disorders
See also the following page for lots of commentary and analysis regarding the above page:
Who is Wade Englund?
Re: Prominent critics who have joined the church
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 12:46 pm
by Doctor CamNC4Me
Well, that was a blast from the past.
Wade,
Did you ever get in line with God’s will and find a lock for your key?
- Doc