Caitlin Kuleci

"I Was a Teenage Mormon," recounts the narrator's childhood and adolescence as a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) in both Utah and Kansas. Her trajectory from active believer to questioning doubter mirrors that of many intelligent people who eventually break free from strict religious groups... Although "I Was a Teenage Mormon" ends rather abruptly (the narrator has a crisis of faith when she goes to college, plunging into the kind of behavior seen in the Amish-kids-gone-wild documentary The Devil's Playground, and then somehow straightens up while living in Florida) and contains some typos, it's still worth reading for anyone interested in how religious groups gain control of people and discourage independent thinking. - http://wemakezines.ning.com/profiles/blogs/more-from-microcosm… (mere)