This paper reports on my examination of 127 personal narratives of people who, for varied and complex reasons, have disassociated themselves from the Church. Of those under study, seventy-one percent had been lifetime members; sixty-two percent of males are returned missionaries; and of those married, over fifty percent are temple marriages. As I report my findings, I focus on three major themes: 1) the reasons given for leaving; 2) the process of leaving; and 3) their lives “after the Church.”

Parker Blount, James W. Ure