Excerpts from Letters and Emails (August 1998)

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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 apart. Good relationships are now bad. People in the church have now left it because of the garbage you guys put out. . . . All the anti you publish just goes to show you that it is of the devil.

(Letter from Georgia)


Dearest friends in Christ, just wanted to tell you that I have left the Mormon church. I am an 8th generation Mormon. I left a few years ago and there was a book that I once read called Mormonism-Shadow or Reality? I have been looking for this book to give to my girlfriend’s family. If you know where I could find one, please let me know…. I also challenge anyone to dispute the book Mormonism-Shadow or Reality? When I was a Mormon I tried my best to prove it wrong and to show that it was bunk and the Tanners’ book really made me think, and I asked my bishop what’s going on here, and he instructed me to shut up about it. So I looked up each and every one of their quotes and found that they are NOT taken out of context.

(e-mail from William)


Just dropping you a note to let you know that through the information given to me by your efforts and the folks on the Ex-Mormon email list, my wife has sent in her letter to have the names of my children and hers removed from the LDS rolls.

(e-mail from James)


I was raised Mormon, and one of the first books that I read about the Mormon church was The Changing World of Mormonism. I even gave it to my mother to read. Soon after I was saved thanks to your book making me question the Mormon church, prayers and my husband’s teaching of the Bible. I have been saved five years and am now learning some things that I didn’t know that the Mormon church believed.

(e-mail from Melinda)


I want to extend my sincere gratitude for the work that you have done, which has glorified our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The various materials from the Utah Lighthouse Ministry have been a blessing in my life.

I came out of Mormonism two years ago and was able to put to rest some of the reservations I had about leaving the Latter-day Saints. Mrs. Tanner, it was your book “The Bible and Mormon Doctrine” that had the most spiritual effect on me. The Holy Ghost has blessed me by making God’s word come to life. I no longer feel the hindering burden of Mormon doctrine shutting up the Kingdom of Heaven against me.

(Letter from North Carolina)


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