
Leaving the Saints
How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
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Martha Beck
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Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one woman's spiritual quest and journey toward faith. As "Mormon royalty" within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church's high elders, - known as the apostles - and her existence was framed by their strict code of conduct. Wearing her sacred garments, she married in a secret temple ceremony - but only after two Mormon leaders ascertained that her "past contained no flirtation with serious sins, such as committing murder or drinking coffee". She went to church faithfully with the other brothers and sisters of her ward. When her son was born with Down syndrome, she and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Provo, Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them.
However, soon after Martha began teaching at Brigham Young University, she began to see firsthand the Church's ruthlessness as it silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs. Most troubling of all, she was forced to face her history of sexual abuse by one of the Church's most prominent authorities. This book chronicles her difficult decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had cradled her for so long and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply.
This beautifully written, inspiring memoir explores the powerful yearning toward faith. It offers a rare glimpse inside one of the world's most secretive religions while telling a profoundly moving story of personal courage, survival, and the transformative power of spirituality.
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“Martha Beck’s riveting memoir teaches us more about love, spirituality, trauma, truth telling, and hope than all the self-help books combined. It is one of the bravest, most achingly honest books I’ve read in years. Leaving the Saints is a priceless gift.” (Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger)
“A courageous, touching, and beautifully written spiritual journey of the heart. I applaud Martha’s candidness and perseverance in her steadfast pursuit of the power of love.” (Judith Orloff, M.D., author of Positive Energy and Dr. Judith Orloff’s Guide to Intuitive Healing)
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Martha Beck helps you chart your path in this guided Ideal Day visualization to identify and clarify the waypoints of your life, and to point yourself toward the way of true north of your greater purpose.
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Tone is too abrasive for an meditation type book.
- By Elim.Garak on 08-11-18
By: Martha Beck
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Beyond Anxiety
- Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose
- By: Martha Beck
- Narrated by: Martha Beck, Maria Shriver
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends us back into the anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of. In Beyond Anxiety, Dr. Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy.
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Good tips on dealing with anxiety
- By andrea l vu on 02-18-25
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Follow Your North Star
- By: Martha Beck
- Narrated by: Martha Beck
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Is it possible for a news anchor to become a professional athlete? Can a disheartened architect build a new career as a luxury car designer? They can, and they have, says Martha Beck, whose advice is sought each month by over two million readers in O: The Oprah Magazine. Now, on Follow Your North Star, she teaches you how to recognize the cues from within that will tell you whether your job, relationship, environment (even your daily schedule) are leading you in the right direction.
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This book helped change my life!
- By littlesheree on 03-26-12
By: Martha Beck
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Leaving the Saints
- How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
- By: Martha Beck
- Narrated by: Martha Beck
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders—known as the apostles—and her existence was framed by their strict code of conduct. Wearing her sacred garments, she married in a secret temple ceremony—but only after two Mormon leaders ascertained that her “past contained no flirtation with serious sins, such as committing murder or drinking coffee.” She went to church faithfully with the other brothers and sisters of her ward.
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Read it and decide for yourself
- By Sandi on 07-03-05
By: Martha Beck
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Unveiling Grace
- The Story of How We Found Our Way Out of the Mormon Church
- By: Lynn K. Wilder
- Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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For 30 years, Lynn Wilder, once a tenured faculty member at Brigham Young University, and her family lived in, loved, and promoted the Mormon Church. Then, their son Micah, serving his Mormon mission in Florida, had a revelation: God knew him personally. God loved him. And the Mormon Church did not offer the true gospel. As Lynn tells her story of abandoning the deception of Mormonism to receive God's grace, she gives a rare look into Mormon culture, what it means to grow up Mormon, and why the contrasts between Mormonism and Christianity make all the difference in the world.
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Enlightening information
- By S. Herzog on 08-19-14
By: Lynn K. Wilder

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Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days: The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846
- By: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Narrated by: Hillary Straga
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1820, a young farm boy in search of truth has a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Three years later, an angel guides him to an ancient record buried in a hill near his home. With God’s help, he translates the record and organizes the Savior’s church in the latter days. Soon others join him, accepting the invitation to become Saints through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But opposition and violence follow those who defy old traditions to embrace restored truths.
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Great Read!!!
- By Jeremiah on 10-18-18
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Recovering Agency
- Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control
- By: Luna Lindsey
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
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In 2012, Mormon General Authority Marlin K. Jensen acknowledged that members are leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "in droves". Access to the internet is often credited and blamed for this mass exodus, where members learn about problematic doctrines and cover-ups of LDS history. Many are happy as Mormons. And many are not. Those who leave, and those doubters who stay face struggles that few others can understand.
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I highly recommended this book
- By Sam Lyman on 10-17-18
By: Luna Lindsey
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Under the Banner of Heaven
- A Story of Violent Faith
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith.
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Interesting @ arm's length
- By pixychild on 07-17-09
By: Jon Krakauer
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Loving What Is
- Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
- By: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
- Narrated by: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell, MacLeod Andrews, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light. As Katie says, "It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem." Contrary to popular belief, trying to let go of a painful thought never works; instead, once we have done The Work, the thought lets go of us. At that point we can truly love what is, just as it is.
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Go for the abridged version
- By moves on 01-06-16
By: Byron Katie, and others
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Vengeance Is Mine
- The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
- By: Richard E. Turley, Barbara Jones Brown
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
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Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train in 1857. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the aftermath of this atrocity. Vengeance Is Mine documents southern Utah leaders’ attempts to cover up their crime by silencing witnesses and spreading lies.
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One of the best historical audible books ever
- By Tonuster on 08-18-23
By: Richard E. Turley, and others
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- Carol Roath
- 04-07-05
Breathtaking and poignant
This audio book is a treasure and I am not even remotely surprised that the reviews are so polarized, for all the obvious reasons. I am recommending this book to everyone I know.
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- Susan
- 06-07-05
very brave, indeed...
...to tell this compelling story. I hope that this book will inspire countless people to free themselves of pain and shame by recounting their own truths - no mater how forcefully they have been strong-armed and shamed into silence. The only way out is through - Martha Beck really charges straight on through.
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- Allison M Shahan
- 06-04-22
wonderful!!
loved this ! Told with so much reverence and love i think.. Martha never disappoints. And this book reached me in so many places. So good
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- Z.D.
- 03-26-24
Humorous and enjoyable story.
I appreciate the authors humor and honesty of her journey through horrific trauma and spiritual abuse, the pain and difficulty of leaving religion and finding true spirituality.
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- Linda
- 11-21-09
Excellent
She dares what many others could not.
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- Dan
- 02-19-23
Told with love and compassion
Told with love and understanding. It helped me get one step closer to finding the courage to leave… xoxo thank you Martha Beck
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- Gali p.
- 09-05-24
Fascinating and captivating
Amazing and relatable story.
I love the writing and didn’t want it to end.
Thank you so much Martha for sharing this.
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- Milena
- 04-14-06
Loved it!
I loved the way the story is narrated. The author makes sure she does not sound biased by telling you both sides of the story and by reasoning and understanding what takes a person or a community to x or y act. I love the idea of telling a few secrets from the church to us outsiders. I believe this religion is too old fashion by hiding secrets about rituals, censuring, threatening, and by stubbornly not accepting facts found by scientists.
I could not believe that in America, there are those who live a life similar to the Muslim community in the Middle East.
Kudos and thank you to the author!
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- Rich
- 01-01-20
Pronunciation of names
This book is spectacular, and the narrator did a great job. The only thing I would change is to make sure narrators pronounce proper names within specific religions properly.
It makes a Mormon’s eye twitch to hear “Nephite” pronounced with a short “e” in the first syllable.
Otherwise, just a fantastic book!
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- Z. tamasi
- 09-07-22
Brave Story
amazing story and very brave to tell such a life tail. it definitely can't be easy. It is unbelievable anyone would join this religion or stand there and not question what is going on.
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