Justice & Mercy: Studies of Transgression in the Latter-day Saint Community
Lane-shine-house, 2021. Print-on-demand. Hardcover/dust jacket. 281pp. Nearly since its founding, leaders of the LDS Church have excommunicated members for wrongdoing. In earlier times, such punishments might have lasted only weeks. Over the course of succeeding decades, this practice became more severe, constituting a wrenching removal from the community. Gaining readmittance.....