mormonism
What Life Is Like After Leaving a Notorious Mormon Polygamist Sect
VICE meets three young women who explain why they left Warren Jeffs's Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and talk about the struggle to build a new life.
Why I'm Never Going Back to the Mormon Church
Although I left the LDS years ago, I went to the church's recent Hill Cumorah Pageant, a flashy spectacle designed to tell the origin story of Mormonism and convert new members.
I Grew Up Believing in a False Prophet
I never felt quite like my family and I belonged in our Mormon community until we met a man who claimed he was ushering in the end of the world, and that we could help him.
The Town Run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Is a Sad, Strange Place
I toured Short Creek with a young couple who managed to escape the town's totalitarian ideology.
Komp-LaintDept. – Manson vs. Mormon and the Brides of Frankenstein
What's the connection between the Mormon Church's founder, Joseph Smith and the geriatric but still notorious and imprisoned Charles Manson? There are lots of them.