reference · digital media, 2005–2026

Digital Mormons: The Modern -Ites

The naming pattern documented on The -Ites did not end in 1844. It continues online, where communities form around a podcast, a magazine, or a conference and are named informally after the figure or organization at the center. Several of these organizations have a large enough footprint, and a long enough public record, to catalog here on the same terms as any other entry on this site: founding date, stated mission, structure, and documented relationship to the LDS Church. One entry, on FARMS and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute, documents an institutional history that several later entries on this page carry forward.

A closing category catalogs Community of Christ's own church-produced podcasts, run directly by its sitting First Presidency rather than through any independent organization. It is placed last, for direct comparison against everything preceding it. Two further categories catalog creators whose content addresses Mormon identity as culture and lifestyle rather than doctrine, and public figures whose content operates outside Mormonism as a subject entirely.

Each entry states what the organization says about itself, in its own words where available, next to what is independently documented about how it operates. Where an organization's stated position and its own documented conduct diverge, both are presented as data, side by side. No conclusion is drawn beyond what the pairing itself shows.

Apologist and critic are not fixed roles here. Every organization catalogued on this page routinely takes up both, defending its own position while attacking whoever occupies the opposite one.

Founded 2005

Mormon Stories

Critical of the LDS Church generally; platforms a spectrum of Mormon belief.

Mormon Stories is a podcast and nonprofit organization founded by John Dehlin, a former Latter-day Saint who was excommunicated from the LDS Church in February 2015 following a formal disciplinary proceeding. The organization operates under Open Stories Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Dehlin founded to formalize the podcast's operations.

Founded 2005, as a podcast; formalized as Open Stories Foundation in 2010.

Founder John Dehlin, PhD in Clinical and Counseling Psychology (Utah State University, 2015).

Stated mission "To promote understanding, healing, growth, and community for people experiencing or impacted by religious transition."

Institutional relationship None. Dehlin was excommunicated in 2015. In April 2026, the LDS Church and Intellectual Reserve, Inc. filed a federal trademark and copyright suit against Dehlin and Open Stories Foundation, alleging branding confusion with official church materials.

Named term "Dehlinite," used since at least the early 2010s to describe listeners and community members associated with Dehlin's work; Dehlin has used the term himself.

Conferences and communities THRIVE, a project and foundation providing profiles and resources for members "questioning, doubting, and/or leaving orthodox Mormonism." A separate initiative, Mormon Stories Regional Communities, began as Facebook support groups seeded by Open Stories Foundation to encourage local, in-person meetups for disaffected members. Dehlin later "spun off" the communities to independent local ownership following public comments about them that he stated had "hurt many people," issuing a public clarification and apology.

Open Stories Foundation, full podcast roster Mormon Stories is one of five shows OSF produces, per the organization's own site: Mormon Stories (John Dehlin); A Thoughtful Faith (Gina Colvin); The Gift of the Mormon Faith Crisis, formerly Mormon Faith Crisis (John and Margi Dehlin, with Natasha Helfer Parker); Mormon Mental Health (Natasha Helfer Parker, LMFT, LCST); and Mormon Matters (Dan Wotherspoon, former editor of Sunstone magazine).

OSF governance and editorial independence OSF is governed by a Board of Directors. A 2017 board statement names Craig Woodfield, CPA, as Finance Committee Chair. A later statement names Amy Grubbs as CEO and Cody Layton as Director of Operations. Gina Colvin, in a public board statement, described her editorial relationship to OSF as "minimal editorial oversight," saying she sets her own creative direction and interview list. Podcasters are paid per episode download, a model OSF's board says was adopted for its neutrality with respect to gender and audience size.

A sourcing note on what follows Every source located for the dispute below is a party to it or a party's media ally. No independent court-reporting service or outlet outside the Mormon-podcast ecosystem was located. Radio Free Mormon, hosted by Bill Reel, is documented elsewhere on this page (see Critics, below) as part of the same Mormon Discussion Inc. network that hosts both parties' public accounts of this case. Where the two primary pleadings could be read directly, they are cited directly. Where only one party's account exists, that is stated.

OSF v. Kamp, the parties and the claims Jennifer Kamp was hired as OSF's Director of Operations in January 2022 and became a semi-regular Mormon Stories co-host the same year. On February 7, 2023, OSF and Dehlin filed a defamation, tortious interference, and trademark complaint against Kamp in Utah's Third District Court, Case No. 230900882, assigned to Judge Robert Faust. The complaint, read directly, alleges Kamp made false claims of sexual harassment, physical intimidation, and misused funds after being told her position would be restructured, and that she used a YouTube handle resembling the Mormon Stories channel to publicize the claims. Kamp separately filed her own action, alleging retaliation, sexual harassment, discrimination, and unpaid wages, and demanding $254,430. Only her case's civil cover sheet was located publicly; her complaint's full factual narrative, in her own words, was not found anywhere in this research, including on her own tracking site.

The stalking injunction, a separate civil proceeding Kamp separately petitioned for a civil stalking injunction against Dehlin, a private civil action distinct from any government prosecution. A different judge, Coral Sanchez, held a four-hour evidentiary hearing on March 7, 2023, and revoked the injunction. The order is reproduced in full on an independent public forum, DiscussMormonism.com. Utah's own court records system, XChange, categorically restricts civil stalking cases from public display under a rule change effective April 2012, a structural limit on this case type generally rather than an action specific to this case.

The defamation case, outcome On May 15, 2024, Judge Faust issued terminating sanctions against Kamp, finding she had concealed evidence during discovery. The order resolved the case on that procedural ground, not through a jury trial weighing whether Kamp's original statements were true. A permanent injunction and damages followed on June 16, 2024. OSF's own account states it could not collect the full judgment because Kamp filed for bankruptcy.

Sealing, checked directly, civil defamation case only Both parties' pleadings in the civil defamation case, including OSF and Dehlin's full complaint, are hosted publicly at mormondiscussionpodcast.org and were read in full for this entry. No sealing order was located for that case. Kamp's own filing is marked "REDACTED" in its filename, consistent with routine redaction of personal identifying information rather than a sealing order covering the case. This does not address the separate civil stalking injunction, which is categorically restricted from public display under Utah court rule regardless of any sealing decision in this specific matter.

Presiding judge, one biographical fact Judge Robert P. Faust is the son of James E. Faust, an LDS apostle from 1978 and Second Counselor in the church's governing First Presidency from 1995 until his death in 2007, per Wikipedia's biographical entry on James E. Faust, corroborated independently by two additional sources.

A claimed criminal charge, stated precisely This is a distinct matter from the civil stalking injunction above: a criminal charge is brought by the government, not by a private party. The claim, as it exists in available sourcing: Kamp's own blog, jenniferkamp.wordpress.com, states that on July 22, 2024, a Deputy District Attorney named Rori Stokes filed a criminal charge against Dehlin for allegedly violating a civil stalking injunction, and that the charge followed a February 20, 2024 call Kamp made to Unified Police Department Officer Hudgens. Radio Free Mormon, an outlet run by Dehlin's ally Bill Reel, does not dispute that a charge was filed, and adds that the underlying injunction had already been dismissed roughly six months earlier. No charging document, court docket, or case number for this alleged criminal matter was located independently of these two sources. A Deputy District Attorney named Rori Stokes is independently confirmed, in unrelated 2024 reporting with no connection to either party, to have worked in the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office under elected District Attorney Sim Gill during this period, which supports the plausibility of the claimed prosecutor's identity without confirming the charge itself. No source located states the alleged charge's disposition.

What OSF's public statement omits OSF's board, writing on Dehlin's own Substack in April 2025 under the names Clint Martin, Jen Tomchak, and John Dehlin, states the foundation is "grateful for the ruling" and considers "justice adequately served." The statement does not mention the claimed criminal charge described above.

The organization's early output focused on members experiencing a faith crisis while remaining in the church, including a companion site, StayLDS.com, co-founded by Dehlin in 2009 and now inactive. Dehlin's own public position moved over the following decade toward advocacy for LGBTQ inclusion and women's ordination, positions cited in his church disciplinary hearing.

His current professional self-description on the organization's own site is "researcher, podcaster, non-profit CEO, activist, public speaker, and religious transitions coach." No source, including Dehlin's own materials, describes him as a licensed psychologist or therapist.

Founded 1974

Sunstone

Heretical/dissident-adjacent with believer overlap; institutional Community of Christ ties.

The Sunstone Education Foundation publishes Sunstone magazine and hosts an annual symposium bringing together, in its own description, "active Latter-day Saints, fundamentalist Mormons, scholars, and ex-Mormons" to discuss Mormon history, theology, and culture. It is the oldest independent organization catalogued on this page.

Founded 1974.

Stated mission To "sponsor open forums of Mormon thought and experience," organized around Joseph Smith's own line, "by proving contraries, truth is made manifest."

Current leadership Lindsay Hansen Park, executive director. Additional staff: Scott T. Barrett, Strategic Growth and Advocacy Director; Stephen Carter, Director of Publications and Editor; Grace Pool, Director of Operations.

Board of Directors Bill McGee, board chair; Kim McCall; George Andrew Spriggs; Heather McGee; John Hamer, an ordained Community of Christ Seventy and Pastor; Scott Barrett; Aaron Sullivan; Malia Kealana Burgess; Chelsea Homer; Lindsay Hansen Park, ex officio.

Podcast family Sunstone produces three podcasts in addition to the magazine: the Sunstone Podcast, Deseret Drama, and the Sunstone Mormon History Podcast, plus a separate Sunstone Magazine Podcast.

Annual symposium The Sunstone Salt Lake Symposium, held each summer since the early 1980s and drawing over 2,500 attendees across more than 100 presentations. The 2026 symposium, themed "Artifacts and Arti-Futures," was held July 30 to August 1 at the University of Utah.

Institutional relationship Not church-affiliated. Named directly in Dallin H. Oaks's 1989 "Alternate Voices" address; the subject of an official 1991 LDS Church statement discouraging member participation; its faculty contributors formally barred from attending under threat of professional consequence at Brigham Young University.

Archival retention policy Sunstone's own site states directly that some presenters and historical figures in its archive "may have troubling histories of prejudice, criminal activity, violence, and abuse" and that, to preserve the historical record, the organization "will not remove problematic content or presenters from our archives."

Sunstone Magazine, published essays

"Late but Welcome: Race and the Priesthood" (Armand Mauss) and "The Continuing Effects of the Priesthood Ban" (Mica McGriggs) are among named essays addressing the 1852–1978 restriction as a subject of ongoing scholarly and cultural discussion rather than settled history.

The 1993 disciplining of a group of LDS intellectuals known as the "September Six" occurred in a period closely associated with Sunstone-adjacent scholarship and conference participation. No comparable statement discouraging participation has been issued against Sunstone since 1991.

Founded 1979, renamed 2006

FARMS and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute

Apologist, institutional; defended LDS Church-specific Book of Mormon historicity claims against outside science.

The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) was founded in 1979 to "promote and coordinate Book of Mormon research and to make the results of such research available to the general public." It was brought under Brigham Young University in 1997 at the invitation of church president Gordon B. Hinckley, who called it the work of "sincere and dedicated scholars" and stated its purpose explicitly: "to provide strong support and defense of the Church on a professional basis."

In 2001, BYU consolidated FARMS with two other text-preservation projects into the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (ISPART), renamed in 2006 as the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. The FARMS name was fully discontinued in 2010. Several figures elsewhere on this page carry a direct institutional line to this history: Christopher Blythe, Jasmin Rappleye, Jared Halverson, and Terryl Givens all hold or held formal Maxwell Institute affiliation.

1979–1997: independent, evidence-based FARMS's early flagship researcher, John L. Sorenson, held a PhD from UCLA, chaired BYU's anthropology department, and conducted fieldwork with the New World Archaeological Foundation beginning in 1953. His An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon (1985) and later Mormon's Codex (2010) are extensively footnoted, citing over 1,300 sources. Sorenson's own account of his motivation states he approached the work already convinced of the Book of Mormon's truth by "manifestations of the Holy Spirit," adding a "scholarly testimony" to a conviction that preceded the research.

The DNA challenge, 2003–2005 Plant geneticist Simon Southerton, a former LDS bishop, and anthropologist Thomas W. Murphy published genetic research finding no detectable Near Eastern lineage in Native American DNA. That contradicted the traditional reading of Book of Mormon peoples as ancestors of Native Americans. Murphy and Southerton called it a "Galileo Event" for the Book of Mormon. Independent, non-Mormon scientists reached the same conclusion. University of Kansas anthropologist Michael Crawford: "I don't think there is one iota of evidence that suggests a lost tribe from Israel made it all the way to the New World. It is a great story, slain by ugly fact." Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes, Russian geneticist Miroslava Derenko, and BYU's own geneticist Scott Woodward are cited reaching similar conclusions.

FARMS's response Daniel C. Peterson, editor of the FARMS Review, published a response. Its stated purpose, per a contributing scholar, was to "debunk the myth that the Book of Mormon has been proved false by modern DNA evidence." Southerton's own account: "I was amazed at the lengths that FARMS went to in order to prop up faith in the Book of Mormon. I felt that the only way I could be satisfied with FARMS explanations was to stop thinking." Southerton was excommunicated in 2005. He told the Associated Press this followed his vocal position on the DNA findings. Those who attended his disciplinary council said the proceeding concerned a separate, unrelated personal matter.

The name changes, 2001–2010 "Foundation for Ancient Research" became, across three institutional steps, the "Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship." The word "Research" does not appear in the new name. Daniel Peterson, editor of the successor Mormon Studies Review, later wrote that the term "apologetics" applies "only to a portion of the Maxwell Institute's work," and that "the garden of faith, like most gardens, requires both weeding and watering."

The church's own 2014 position On January 31, 2014, the LDS Church, not FARMS or the Maxwell Institute, published a Gospel Topics essay titled "Book of Mormon and DNA Studies," approved by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. The essay states directly: "Nothing is known about the DNA of Book of Mormon peoples." It does not address geography. Three geneticists, including Southerton and BYU-trained geneticist Jamie Hanis Handy, publicly responded to the essay on Mormon Stories in 2015.

2012: editorial removal Daniel Peterson, who had edited the FARMS Review and its successor for 23 years and written the DNA rebuttal above, was removed from that role by the Maxwell Institute in 2012. He remained employed at BYU and as editor of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. The stated reasons for his removal are not part of the public record reviewed here.

The sequence runs from a factual claim stated as testable (Book of Mormon peoples as ancestors of Native Americans, argued through archaeology and geography) to a test conducted by outside science that did not support it, to an institutional response that first contested the science, then reduced the claim's exposure to further testing, in step with a name change that dropped the word "research." Every figure and organization elsewhere on this page carrying Maxwell Institute affiliation, current or past, comes after this sequence and follows from it.

Founded 2016

Faith Matters

Social and political LDS apologist; provides in-group institutional space for culturally assimilated, progressive, and scholarly LDS members, valuing belonging and loyalty over confrontational defense.

Faith Matters is a nonprofit organization publishing Wayfare magazine and hosting an annual conference, Restore. Co-founder Bill Turnbull has described the organization's approach as distinct from apologetics: truth, in his words, "needs simply to be lived," not defended.

Founded 2016.

Publication Wayfare magazine, self-described as "Explorations in Faith," publishing on subjects including polygamy, Heavenly Mother, and the priesthood and temple restriction.

Podcast Network Faith Matters states it produces seven shows: Faith Matters (flagship), Unshaken, The Soloists, Proclaim Peace, One Heart One Mind, Article 13, and Sanctuary.

Other initiatives Books and Courses, a publishing arm for authors including Terryl and Fiona Givens, Patrick Mason, Thomas McConkie, and Jennifer Finlayson-Fife; The Compass Gallery, a physical art gallery and event space in downtown Provo; Waymakers, a conflict-engagement and peacemaking training initiative; and Organized Intelligence, a 2026 initiative addressing the ethical and religious implications of AI from Latter-day Saint perspectives.

Governance The organization's own site lists a separate Executive Board, Advisory Board, and Staff.

Institutional relationship Stated directly in the organization's own Restore 2024 materials: "We sustain the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders. Though an ally of the church, we exist and act as an independent organization."

Stated doctrinal grounding The organization cites D&C 58:26–28 on agency ("it is not meet that I should command in all things") and a 1906 Improvement Era passage from B.H. Roberts describing Mormonism as affording "opportunity... for thoughtful disciples who will not be content with merely repeating some of its truths."

Institutional overlap among presenters Several recurring Restore presenters hold current or recent ties to BYU or the LDS Church itself. Terryl Givens: Maxwell Institute Senior Research Fellow. Jared Halverson: BYU professor, Maxwell Institute affiliate, and chair of the Book of Mormon Academy, who also hosts Unshaken, one of Faith Matters' own podcasts. Mason Kamana Allred: BYU–Hawaii professor, former Joseph Smith Papers historian. Astrid Tuminez: president of Utah Valley University, where Restore is held, 2018–2026. Kate Holbrook (d. 2022) and Melissa Inouye: both historians employed by the LDS Church History Department. Jasmin Rappleye and Jennifer Finlayson-Fife are catalogued in their own entries elsewhere on this page.

Independence claim weighed against presenter roster Faith Matters states it exists and acts as "an independent organization." Its recurring presenter roster includes current BYU faculty, a Maxwell Institute affiliate and department chair who also hosts a Faith Matters podcast, the sitting president of the university where its flagship conference is held, and two historians employed directly by the LDS Church History Department. The organization's formal independence is not in dispute; the density of institutional affiliation among the people who define its public content is documented here without further characterization.

Annual conference Restore, held annually since 2022 at Utah Valley University. Restore 2026, rebranded "Restore:Connect," is scheduled for September 24 to 26 at UVU's Noorda Center.

Givens delivered a 2019 lecture at BYU's Maxwell Institute titled "Apologetics and Disciples of the Second Sort." Finlayson-Fife's 2023 Restore session, "Eros and the Light of Christ," did not cite Plato's Symposium or Diotima, the dialogue's originating source for the concept of eros as a philosophical structure.

Bill Turnbull describes the organization's approach as distinct from apologetics: truth "needs simply to be lived," not defended. Faith Matters' own site has also published an article, under its own name, titled "Historicity and The Book of Mormon." The article weighs archaeological evidence directly, asking, "Can we declare a victor?" and citing an altar inscription discovered in Yemen as "the first actual archaeological evidence in support of the historicity of the Book of Mormon." Both statements are Faith Matters' own. See FARMS and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute, above, for the earlier institutional history several of this section's presenters carry forward.

Founded 1997

FAIR

Apologist; institutional defense of LDS Church doctrine and history.

FAIR (formerly FairMormon, and before that the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research) is a volunteer apologetics organization founded to answer criticisms of the LDS Church encountered on early internet message boards.

Founded 1997, out of AOL message-board discussions defending LDS positions.

Name history FairMormon, 2013–2021; renamed FAIR ("Faithful Answers, Informed Response") in March 2021, following Russell M. Nelson's 2018 directive discouraging "Mormon" as an institutional name.

Current leadership Scott Gordon, President; Trevor Holyoak, Vice President; DeLayna Beck, Operations Manager; Jared Riddick, Managing Editor; Elisabeth Bentley, Social Media Manager; Dailie Todd, Donor and Member Relations.

Board of Directors Tim Dunn, chair; John Lynch; Paul McNabb, a cybersecurity executive. A 2019 Wikipedia snapshot of FAIR's board also lists Gregory Smith and Daniel C. Peterson; neither appears on the organization's current board listing.

Advisory Board Ed Evans; Jared K. McBride; Mark Ashurst-McGee; Lindsey Ringhand.

Institutional relationship The Neal A. Maxwell Institute's own 2002 newsletter states in writing: "FAIR, which is not affiliated with BYU or the Institute."

Stated mission, current language FAIR's current self-description, grounded in D&C 123:12–15, states its purpose as creating "conditions where faith in Jesus Christ and His gospel can flourish," a softer framing than the organization's founding description of itself as a direct response to "criticisms" and "attacks."

Current scope FAIR groups its output into five categories on its own site: Support Faith (faith-crisis resources), Scholarship, Study Resources (Come, Follow Me materials), Conferences and Events, and Podcasts and Media, an expansion beyond apologetics alone into pastoral-care and curriculum-adjacent content.

2025 conference roster Included current BYU faculty (Barbara Morgan Gardner) and Randy Austin, who chairs Kirton McConkie's First Amendment and Religious Organizations practice and serves as the LDS Church's lead outside crisis and litigation counsel, presenting on child protection and abuse.

2021 rebrand, stated reason FAIR President Scott Gordon, announcing the March 2021 name change: "we have also done some reflection and subsequent course adjustment. We are fact checkers and clarifiers." He said the new approach means "avoiding personal attacks or derogatory language" and operating "in a Christlike manner." In the same announcement, he added: "This does not mean we won't point out faulty reasoning and misleading claims, or boldly defend our doctrine... We are not stepping away from fact-checking, or defending the church. Indeed, we embrace it fully."

2021 rebrand, same-week conduct Reporting on the announcement noted FAIR had recently drawn public criticism for a satirical video series, "This Is the Show," produced with Brigham Young University actors and writers and targeting the writings of a named church critic. FAIR removed the videos at the same time it announced the new name and stated approach.

Annual conference The FAIR Conference, held annually in Utah since the organization's founding. The 2026 conference was held August 5 to 7 at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi.

Daniel C. Peterson, FARMS's flagship journal editor for 23 years, was removed from that role in 2012; the FARMS DNA response cited in that entry was his own work. See FARMS and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute, above, for the full institutional history and its own name changes.

Institutional apologist

Christopher Blythe

Institutional-academic defender of the LDS Church; critical of critics of the LDS Church; recurring guest on independent apologist platforms.

Christopher Blythe is an Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University (English and Religious Education), a former Research Associate at the Maxwell Institute's Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies (2018–2021, see FARMS and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute, above), co-editor of the Journal of Mormon History, and co-president of the Folklore Society of Utah. He holds a PhD in American Religious History from Florida State University and an MA in History from Utah State University.

Angels and Seerstones Blythe's own podcast, framed as Latter Day Saint folklore scholarship.

LDS Uncorrelated A subscription-only podcast Blythe co-hosts, founded July 2026. Its own self-description: "a super-podcast comprised of the greatest minds Mormonism has to offer," discussing content framed as absent from official materials, "the things you won't find in the manuals or hear over the pulpit." Blythe's own description of its second episode covers temple preparation, disputes over the use of the word "Mormon," and how "anti-Mormons have always complicated Temple Prep."

FAIR appearance Guest on FAIR's podcast, interviewed on his book Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse.

Recurring Ward Radio guest Appeared on Ward Radio's live roundtable on the Adam-God theory (December 2025) and again on its "Top 5 False Prophets" episode (August 13, 2026), introduced by the show as an "expert of new religious movements" discussing "the top 5 craziest and coolest cults of the modern mormon era." Two dated appearances establish Blythe as a recurring guest on the same independent apologist platform catalogued elsewhere on this page, not a one-off crossover.

Blythe combines institutional academic standing with content in the apologetics mode. That's different from the independent, non-credentialed apologists (Ward Radio, Stick of Joseph, Jacob Hansen) catalogued elsewhere on this page, which is why he's classified here as an institutional apologist.

Institutional apologist

Jasmin Rappleye

Institutional-academic defender of the LDS Church; critical of critics of the LDS Church.

Jasmin Gimenez Rappleye graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2015 with a degree in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and joined Book of Mormon Central (later renamed Scripture Central) as one of its first employees the same year. She rose to Director of Communications, overseeing the organization's marketing and outreach, the ScripturePlus scripture-study app's content and design, and its social media output.

Scripture Central tenure and output Authored Book of Mormon apologetics content for Scripture Central, including pieces on archaeology, Hebrew-language evidences, and the Book of Mormon's "skin of blackness" passage. Co-authored visual study aids for Come, Follow Me curriculum with John W. Welch. Scripture Central's own 2024 year-in-review credits her social media leadership with significant growth in followers, likes, shares, and comments.

FAIR presenter history Repeat presenter at FAIR conferences on behalf of Book of Mormon Central, including a session on the ScripturePlus app, and a joint guest appearance with her husband, Neal Rappleye, on FAIR's podcast discussing Book of Mormon historicity. Neal Rappleye is a co-recipient of FAIR's 2013 John Taylor Defender of the Faith Award.

Personal platform Built individual accounts on Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Spotify, and Facebook alongside her institutional role. Her own account: "When I started at Scripture Central, I never intended to be a public figure... I was always pointing people back towards Scripture Central, even if my voice was influential in the brand."

Departure from Scripture Central Rappleye and her husband left Scripture Central to join the Ancient America Foundation, launching a new podcast together with Stephen Smoot.

Rappleye built her platform inside an institutional apologetics organization, using its resources and its audience, before she became identifiable as her own brand independent of it. Blythe's case runs the other way: his institutional standing came first and has stayed separate from his podcasting. Both are classified here as institutional apologists for the same reason: their public authority rests on institutional affiliation, current or recent, not on the independent, non-credentialed model of Ward Radio, Stick of Joseph, or Jacob Hansen.

Various founding dates

Critics

A distinct category from Mormon Stories: individuals and platforms whose work is oriented toward critique of the LDS Church, church-adjacent organizations, or specific figures within the broader Mormon-adjacent media landscape, without operating under any single organization's umbrella.

CES Letter Critical of LDS Church historical and doctrinal claims. Authored by Jeremy Runnells, published 2013 as an open letter to a CES (Church Educational System) director, compiling documented historical and doctrinal criticisms of the LDS Church.

r/exmormon A community on the Reddit platform for current and former Latter-day Saints, active since the early 2010s.

MormonLeaks / Truth & Transparency Foundation Founded by Ryan McKnight, publishing leaked internal LDS Church documents and financial records.

Radio Free Mormon Critical of LDS Church apologetics and doctrine; defender of John Dehlin specifically. A podcast within Bill Reel's Mormon Discussion Inc. network, publishing critical analysis of LDS apologetics and doctrine. Reel also co-hosted Almost Awakened (2019–2025) with Britt Hartley, catalogued below under Apparently Transcended Mormons.

Alyssa Grenfell Former Latter-day Saint and author of How to Leave the Mormon Church, publishing content on YouTube and TikTok addressing LDS doctrine, culture, and her own departure. Referenced in Mormon Stories' own published testimonials as a resource cited by members in faith transition.

Nemo the Mormon UK-based YouTube commentator, channel active since December 2018, roughly 44,900 subscribers and 15 million total views. Content focuses on statements by current LDS Church leaders and their accuracy against the historical record. Excommunicated for apostasy September 30, 2024, per his own channel's stated account.

The Black Menaces Critical of LDS Church institutional conduct and campus culture, not doctrine; not aligned with critics of the LDS Church broadly. A group formed by five BYU students in February 2022, in direct response to BYU professor and church leader Brad Wilcox's remarks reframing the church's pre-1978 priesthood and temple ban on Black members. Founding members: Nate Byrd, Kennethia Dorsey, Kylee Shepherd, Rachel Weaver, and Sebastian Stewart-Johnson. Their TikTok account passed 740,000 followers and tens of millions of video likes, with national coverage from Newsweek, NBC News, BuzzFeed News, and Inside Higher Ed, and the group expanded to chapters at predominantly white institutions nationwide.

Distinct from other entries in this category The Black Menaces critique specific institutional conduct and culture, primarily race, rather than doctrine or historicity. Their own members describe the group's relationship to church membership as mixed and unresolved rather than a clean departure: "technically they're all still members of the church," with attendance and activity varying by member. The group has stated directly that its purpose is not to "pin people against the church" or to "attack BYU or the Mormon Church." That distinguishes them from every other entry in this section, each of which is authored from an explicitly departed, ex-Mormon standpoint and critiques doctrine, historicity, or institutional cover-up rather than campus culture and conduct.

Former Mormon Christian ministries Critical of LDS Church doctrine from a competing Christian theological position. A distinct, ongoing category of critic, not tied to one flagship figure or channel: former Latter-day Saints who left the church for evangelical or other traditional Christian belief, rather than into secularism or non-affiliation. This category runs mostly on church and ministry funding rather than the creator-economy model of the other entries in this section. Its critique is theological rather than historical: grace versus earned righteousness, and scripture alone versus a living prophet and an open scriptural canon. It aligns with the broader evangelical countercult tradition rather than with the historicity or institutional-conduct critiques documented elsewhere on this page.

Ane Axford, a former Latter-day Saint and therapist, and Jacob Newman, a gay former member, are quoted in February 2022 Salt Lake Tribune reporting raising concerns about the ex-Mormon community model itself, distinct from criticism of the LDS Church. Newman is quoted describing such communities as replicating "the exact same type of toxic behaviors that many of us tried to leave behind in Mormonism: No accountability for leadership, toxic obsession and fixation on an 'identity' as an ex-Mormon." Sebastian Stewart-Johnson later left the church entirely, an individual departure documented separately from the group's own collective, mixed relationship to membership.

Various founding dates

Independent Apologists

A cluster of individual creators and small media organizations producing faith-affirming content outside FAIR's formal structure, most prominently Ward Radio.

Ward Radio Defender of the LDS Church; critical of critics of the LDS Church, including John Dehlin by name. Founded 2019 as Midnight Mormons by Cardon Ellis, Brad Witbeck, and Kwaku El, later renamed. Ellis remains the show's creator and sole consistent host. Kwaku El continues as a regular co-host in 2026 programming. The show has grown into a rotating ensemble format, with Jonah Barnes, Brittany the Shadow, and Luke Hanson (Editor in Chief of Ward Radio News) established as recurring contributors alongside Ellis and Kwaku El.

Ward Radio's own disclaimer "The Opinions expressed in this podcast are the opinions of the radio hosts themselves and do not represent official positions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We are not apologists, we are just radio hosts who call it how we see it."

Ward Radio's own episode titles Include "Debunking Prosperity Preacher 'Millionaire Mike' Winger and His Attacks on the Book of Abraham." The organization's own about page describes its content as "debunking the latest anti-Mormon attacks against the church."

Jacob Hansen, Thoughtful Faith Defender of the LDS Church; critical of ex-Mormon and non-LDS critics of the LDS Church. A YouTube channel of worldview apologetics contrasting the LDS perspective with other traditions, including formal debates with non-LDS scholars and critics. Hansen attended BYU–Hawaii and holds a business background. His content has drawn criticism from ex-Mormon commentators for citing LDS institutional figures such as Elder Jeffrey R. Holland without comparable engagement of non-LDS historians, and Mormon Stories hosts have separately criticized comments Hansen has made regarding LGBT members.

Name collision, not affiliated Hansen's Thoughtful Faith is a distinct project from A Thoughtful Faith Podcast, hosted by Dr. Gina Colvin under Open Stories Foundation, the same nonprofit that operates Mormon Stories. Colvin's podcast is explicitly post-orthodox, describing itself as covering "the spiritual and religious life on the other side of extreme orthodoxy," the inverse orientation of Hansen's faith-affirming content. The two share a name and a broad subject area and nothing else.

Stick of Joseph Defender of the LDS Church; critical of critics of LDS Church historicity claims. A YouTube channel run by brothers Jackson and Hayden Paul focused on the historicity and archaeological claims of the Book of Mormon, including a documentary project in production. Over 60,000 subscribers, described by a third-party host bio as the fastest-growing independent channel in the LDS YouTube space. The hosts appeared as guests on Mormon Stories in a September 2024 episode, in which they were introduced as apologists who "continue to believe in core Mormon truth claims in spite of modern scientific evidence."

Kwaku El's April 2021 video, "The End of John Dehlin," produced a public exchange with Radio Free Mormon and Bill Reel, who stated they felt "used" by Kwaku's characterization of his own intentions before the video's release.

Cultural, not theological

Mormon Wives: Cultural Influencers

A category distinct from every other entry on this page by subject matter rather than orientation: creators whose content addresses Mormon or ex-Mormon identity as lifestyle, aesthetic, and parenting culture rather than doctrine, history, or institutional critique. The category spans two television productions and a wider field of independent bloggers and video creators, and splits internally along the same believing-or-departed line documented elsewhere on this page, applied here to fashion, food, marriage, and family content rather than theology.

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Hulu docuseries, premiered September 2024, following eight #MomTok content creators, including Taylor Frankie Paul, Mayci Neeley, Whitney Leavitt, Mikayla Matthews, Jessi Ngatikaura, Layla Taylor, and Demi Engemann, through the fallout of a 2022 "soft swinging" scandal.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Bravo reality series, premiered November 2020, a separate production from the Hulu series with overlapping cast connections. Current and former cast include Lisa Barlow, described in coverage as "the only God-fearing Mormon on the cast," alongside Heather Gay, Whitney Rose, and Monica Garcia, all described in the same coverage as former members.

Documented crossover Heather Gay stated the Hulu series "validated what I wrote about in Bad Mormon," her own memoir, and what RHOSLC cast members "have been talking about... for the last five seasons." Several cast members across both productions share personal or professional connections, per direct statements from Gay, Lisa Barlow, and other cast members.

The believing camp Creators presenting active LDS membership as part of a lifestyle brand: modest fashion, large families, home and parenting content, and public adherence to church standards including abstention from coffee, alcohol, and premarital sex, presented as an aspirational aesthetic rather than doctrinal argument.

The post-Mormon camp Creators presenting departure from the church as part of the same lifestyle format: content addressing coffee, alcohol, temple garments, and modesty standards as personal-freedom narratives, using the same aesthetic and platform conventions as the believing camp with the underlying position reversed.

Neither camp is organized around theological argument, apologetics, or institutional critique in the sense the other categories on this page document. Both target audiences already inside the broader Mormon cultural sphere, believing, departed, or merely curious, and both are commercially monetized through the same influencer format: sponsored content, brand partnerships, and platform advertising revenue, independent of the doctrinal content that defines every other category catalogued here.

Content scope, not belief status

Apparently Transcended Mormons

A category distinct from the six above by definition rather than degree. Every organization already catalogued on this page, critical, apologetic, or self-described as independent, produces content organized around Mormonism as its subject. The figures below are grouped separately because their primary public output does not take Mormonism as its subject at all, regardless of what is independently true about their personal belief or membership status. The grouping is rare enough on its own terms to warrant its own entry.

Britt Hartley Transitioned from LDS Church-specific content into Bill Reel's critic-of-the-LDS-Church network; co-hosting relationship persisted past her own stated departure from Mormon-specific subject matter. Author of No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools, No Faith Required (2024). Her own biography states she "stepped away from traditional faith during her PhD studies." Her earlier book, Mormon Philosophy Simplified: An Easy LDS Approach to Classic Philosophical Questions (2019), predates this shift and is Mormonism-specific; her current work is not.

Bill Reel and Mormon Discussion Inc. Hartley's public output has run substantially through Bill Reel's nonprofit, Mormon Discussion Inc., the same organization behind Radio Free Mormon (see Critics, above). Mormon Discussion Inc.'s own published financials state she was brought on as part of an effort "to increase the female voices" in its podcast lineup, co-hosting Almost Awakened with Reel from 2019 to 2025, a run of 193 episodes.

Chronology of the intersection 2013: first guest appearance on Reel's Mormon Discussion Podcast. 2019: Mormon Philosophy Simplified published; the same year, Mormon Discussion Inc. brings her on as Almost Awakened co-host. 2020: guest-hosts an episode interviewing Reel about his own relationship with Mormonism. 2024: No Nonsense Spirituality published, marking her stated move away from Mormonism-specific subject matter. November 2025: Hartley and Reel launch "Exploring the Edges," described in Mormon Discussion Inc.'s own materials as the two "teaming up again." The collaboration continues into December 2025. Her stated pivot away from Mormon-specific content did not end the co-hosting relationship with Reel; it continued on his network under a broader, spirituality-focused format.

Hartley's stated posture Describes secular spirituality as "a middle path between the rigid order of religion... and the chaos of nihilism," proposing that practitioners draw from "the wisdom and tools in religion, the intuitive space of the occult, and the preeminence of science" without adopting supernatural truth claims from any one source.

Austin Archer Utah-based actor, comedian, musician, and playwright performing as "Your Pal Austin," with over one million TikTok followers and nearly 50 million views. Has appeared alongside Kevin Costner in Horizon and hosts his own podcast, People Pleaser with Austin Archer. His primary public output is mainstream entertainment content, not Mormon-themed.

Archer's documented Mormon-background content Gave a live interview to Mormon Stories, "Recovering from Post-Mormon Alcoholism," discussing sobriety and what the episode's title calls "the Mormon to alcoholic pipeline." His TikTok content carries recurring hashtags including #mormon, #exmormon, #lds, and #exmo, indicating identifiable but secondary Mormon-background material within a broader entertainment catalog.

2025 Mormon-adjacent project Co-wrote The Secret Lives of the Real Wives in the Salt Lake Hive with Olivia Custodio and Penelope Caywood for Salt Lake Acting Company, an explicit satire of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (see Mormon Wives: Cultural Influencers, above). In interview, Archer described being deliberate about not "punching down" in writing the show.

Dan McClellan Critic of biblical interpreters and translators; not positioned toward the LDS Church or its critics. Biblical scholar, PhD in religion and religious studies (University of Exeter). Publishes historical-critical analysis of the Bible under the tagline "Data over dogma" to roughly 984,000 TikTok followers as of April 2026.

McClellan's current status A current, active member of the LDS Church, per Wikipedia and independent reporting. Converted at the end of his first semester of college. Served as the church's scripture translation supervisor, 2013 to 2023. His own blog links directly to his official church "I'm a Mormon" profile.

McClellan's stated method Applies the same historical-critical method to the Bible that he does not, by his own account, apply publicly to the Book of Mormon or LDS-specific claims. Quoted directly: "His faith is something he prefers to keep out of his academic discourse."

Listener comment, Mormon Stories, on McClellan's appearance

"Dan appears not to support the orthodox beliefs of the Mormon Church or the orthodox beliefs of the Christian Church. Dan has created his own religion."

Hartley's content transcends Mormonism by subject, not by association. Her current work addresses spirituality generally, for an audience defined by religious background broadly rather than LDS background specifically, even as her collaboration with Bill Reel's Mormon Discussion Inc. network has continued past that shift.

Archer's content transcends Mormonism by proportion. His Mormon-background material is a documented but minor part of a mainstream entertainment career, surfacing recurrently rather than centrally, and his 2025 stage satire treats Mormon-adjacent reality television as raw material rather than his own subject of departure or defense.

McClellan's content transcends Mormonism by scope-limitation. He remains inside the tradition institutionally while directing his critical method entirely outward, at a different scripture, for a general audience with no stated connection to LDS belief at all. All three produce work legible and popular to audiences with no Mormon background whatsoever, a rare outcome for anyone whose formation was inside the tradition.

Church-produced, not independent

Community of Christ Podcasts

Deploys a non-creedal communication platform; no apologetic apparatus or critics-of-critics function comparable to Ward Radio; no documented posture toward the LDS Church or its critics.

Community of Christ, the second-largest Latter Day Saint denomination, produces two podcasts directly through its own church structure rather than through any independent organization. This entry is placed last on this page, not alongside the other organizational profiles above. Every organization preceding it, FARMS and the Maxwell Institute, Faith Matters, and FAIR most directly, was built in whole or in part to defend a factual claim under pressure.

Community of Christ formally declined to require belief in the Book of Mormon's historicity as a test of membership in 2007 (see Chronology: Who Owns "Mormon"). Its podcasts document no comparable defensive apparatus: no rebranding away from a contested term, no institutional essay walking back an earlier evidentiary claim.

Onward with Community of Christ Hosted directly by the sitting First Presidency: Stassi Cramm, Bunda Chibwe, and Janné Grover, two women and one Zambian man (see First Presidency, current composition, below). Listener questions and topic suggestions are solicited to the First Presidency's own institutional email address, FP@CofChrist.org.

Faith Unfiltered Formerly Project Zion Podcast, relaunched under its current name and format. Self-described as "a raw, real, and radically inclusive space rooted in the mission and message of Community of Christ." Produced by the church's own communications structure.

Common contributor Robin Linkhart hosts "Fair Trade," a recurring segment within Faith Unfiltered featuring guests' personal accounts of joining, questioning, or transitioning within the church, including members raised in other Latter Day Saint traditions.

First Presidency, current composition Cramm was ordained June 1, 2025, the first woman to hold the office of Prophet-President in the church's history, following the church's 1984 decision to ordain women to the priesthood. Chibwe, of Zambia, became the first Black person and first Zambian to serve in the First Presidency at the same 2025 World Conference. Grover is the presidency's third member. The presidency is composed of two women and one Zambian man.

No organization comparable to FAIR, Sunstone, Mormon Stories, or the independent apologist and critic clusters catalogued above was identified for Community of Christ specifically in research for this entry. Search results returning "Community of Christ critic" or "Community of Christ ex-member" default to material about the LDS Church, a separate denomination sharing the same 1830 to 1844 founding history. The clearest documented instance of organized departure from Community of Christ is institutional rather than digital: the 1920s "Supreme Directional Control" controversy, in which roughly 25,000 members left over a governance dispute, feeding into the Restoration Branches movement and later the Remnant Church, both catalogued on Restoration Branches & the Remnant Church.

Community of Christ's 2013 "Faithful Disagreement" policy, which permits members to hold and privately express disagreement with official positions without loss of standing, is documented on Non-Creedal: Two Different Claims as a direct institutional response to how the church handled its earlier 1984 ordination schism.

Scope of this entry

These categories are not exhaustive of Mormon-adjacent digital media. They represent organizations with a sustained public footprint, independently verifiable founding and structural facts, and documented points of contact, cooperative or adversarial, with the LDS Church, with each other, or with the broader field this site catalogs. Inclusion here states only what is documented. It states no view on the accuracy of any organization's own doctrinal, historical, or theological claims.

See The -Ites for the naming pattern this page continues, and The Speaker and the Room for the recurring structure of institutional narration this page's subjects operate within, in different directions and by different methods.

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