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Lynn K. Wilder

Lynn K. Wilder is the author of Unveiling Grace: The Story of How We Found Out Way Out of the Mormon Church. She and her husband Mike currently run the ministry Ex-Mormon Christians United For Jesus.

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New Faith

My Escape from Mormonism

Her family no longer believed in Mormonism, but she still had tenure at the church’s flagship university. Lynn K. Wilder on her heart-racing days hiding her apostasy—and her path to a new faith.

Lynn K. Wilder

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