Category: Letters and Emails
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Excerpts from Letters and Emails (October 2001)
[Spelling and grammar not corrected] May 2001I just wanted to let you know how much my husband and I appreciate your website. We were both raised in the Mormon Church by zealous parents. We both went to BYU. My husband served a 2 yr. mission, and we both married in the temple. Yet, we had…
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Excerpts from Letters and Emails (February 2001)
[Spelling and grammar not corrected] October 1999I am writing to say that I read about your story in the Salt Lake Tribune and I commend you on your efforts to make the Mormon Question accessible to as many people as you can. I am a Catholic and am 22 years of age. I have often…
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Excerpts from Letters and Emails (April 1999)
[Spelling and grammar not corrected] I cannot tell you enough how much I appreciate the work you are doing. . . . It is not easy to wipe out 46 years of your life and realize how you have been controlled . . . I was a Relief Society president in our stake for a…
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Excerpts from Letters and Emails (August 1998)
[Spelling and grammar not corrected] You call yourselves Christian and are out there serving a purpose to try to convert members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yet you purposely tear down their beliefs. You say that you’re helping them. But do you realize what you are doing? Families are being torn…
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Excerpts from Letters and Emails (November 1997)
[Spelling and grammar not corrected] The letter which follows was written by a Mormon attorney who is very displeased with our work on Mormonism. A photocopy of it was forwarded to us by the individual who received the letter: I apologize for not returning the document entitled “Major Problems of Mormonism” by Jerald and Sandra…
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Excerpts from Letters (April 1997)
[Spelling and grammar not corrected] You have given me so much help in leaving Mormonism behind in my life & the lives of my two children. Thank you so much for your work. (Letter from Louisiana) It’s been about fifteen years since we found your book, [Mormonism:] Shadow or Reality, and began the journey to…
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Lawrence Foster’s Response
By Lawrence Foster Following is a letter of response from Lawrence Foster, regarding our writing about him in the last issue of the Salt Lake City Messenger (No. 90, May 1996). Originally appeared in: Jerald and Sandra Tanner, “Lawrence Foster’s Response to Our Last Newsletter,” Salt Lake City Messenger, no. 91, November 1996, 19.
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Excerpts from Letters (November 1996)
[Spelling and grammar not corrected] To the Salt Lake City Messenger: Actually the clowns known as the Tanners. I am a missionary for the LDS church . . . This is the ONLY church set up like Christ set it up. Not some joke thing out of Salt Lake like you clowns. . . .…
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Excerpts from Letters (May 1996)
[Spelling and grammar not corrected] Just the fact that ‘Mormons’ don’t go around raising ‘hell’ and trying to stir up problems with other religions like I have seen your organization do—repeatedly leads me more than ever to believe that the LDS Church is the only true Church . . . Why don’t you just admit that you…
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Excerpts from Letters (December 1995)
[Spelling and grammar not corrected] I can’t thank you enough for what has happened to my son who went on a mission last AUG. He left the mission last week and left the church too. Someone had left a copy of Mormonism—Shadow or Reality in the apt. that they moved into. He read it and…