From Latter-Day Saint to Forgiven Sinner, by Sandra Tanner



TEDS Tanner Lectures
February 11, 1988

Contents:

  • Introduction and Personal Journey
  • Mormon Family Background
  • Resources on Leaving Mormonism
  • Upbringing and Pioneer Stories
  • Parents’ Mormon Roots and Move to California
  • Struggles as a Mormon Minority
  • Realizing Faith Differences
  • Friendship with a Jewish Girl
  • Encounter with a Christian Classmate
  • Mormon Seminary Experience
  • Studying With Jehovah’s Witnesses
  • Questions About Elohim and Jehovah
  • Mother’s Doubts and Research
  • First Church Service Experience
  • College and Mormon Institute
  • Meeting Jerald Tanner
  • Investigating Mormonism’s Problems
  • Conversion to Christianity
  • Letting Go of the Book of Mormon
  • Sharing Research with Family