The Exmormon Foundation is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that supports people transitioning out of affiliation with

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian Christian church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The ...

(LDS Church).The Exmormon Foundation
/ref> It was founded by Richard Packham in 2001. He left the LDS Church after concluding from his personal research that he did not believe its teachings, particularly the historical teachings of the

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. The foundation holds an annual conference in

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in October, the same month as one of the LDS Church's semi-annual general conferences. Notable speakers at the Exmormon Foundation Conference have included musician

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and Linda Walker of the ''Child Protection Project'', Dr. Simon Southerton, Brent Lee Metcalfe,

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, Stanford professor Craig Criddle, Jeff Sharlet, John Larsen,

Grant H. Palmer Grant Hart Palmer (August 17, 1940 – September 25, 2017) was an American educator best known for his controversial work, ''An Insider's View of Mormon Origins'', which ostensibly led to his disfellowshipment in 2004 from the Church of Jesus Ch ...

John Dehlin John Parkinson Dehlin is an American podcast host and excommunicated member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He holds a PhD in psychology. Dehlin founded the Mormon Stories Podcast, as well as several other Morm ...

, and

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. The Exmormon Foundation is informally associated with the Recovery from Mormonism website, which hosts a discussion board where Exmormons, unbelieving Mormons, and doubters post their complaints, criticisms, and other personal reactions to their experience with the LDS Church. There are also many 'permanent fixture' forum members who are not and never were baptized Mormons. The forum survives financially via donations. The forum accepts any and all who have a computer. One can post comments without formally signing up, but signing up allows one to secure a screenname, make corrections/additions to a post, and to see new posts marked as not having been read. There is no cost, but as indicated, donations are not only welcome, but necessary. Initially, no mention of "politics" was allowed, but a change in ownership in the early 2000s seems to have allowed politics to be discussed as it touches on the LDS Church and its activities. As with most things 'human' this definition finds itself stretched at times. The Recovery from Mormonism website also includes a catalog of short auto-biographies where Exmormons describe their loss of faith in Mormonism.Recovery from Mormonism – the Mormon Church
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Exmormon Foundation
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