Last Updated on March 10, 2024 by Jason Harris

It’s been over five years since I submitted my formal resignation from the Mormon Church. The time before and since has been full of events shattering and busting my heart wide open. Both to happy and exciting vistas as well as to immense pain and grief. There have been separations, reconciliations, clarifications, deepenings. Messy and non-linear.

It’s said God is Love. A force everlasting. I still believe this. Part of love is identifying and empathizing with the complex and often contradictory host of emotions, experiences and beliefs that are part of the human experience. And we can’t experience these without experiencing these. We’re talking some deep Jesus theology here if we frame this with Christian lenses. “Come follow me.”

The path I’m on has not been easy and I don’t know what the path ahead will be. But I continue to press forward. I often get caught in and absorbed by my emotions and feelings. And I’m also striving to sit fully in what it is to be part of the universe having a human experience.

The reality is, my faith transition is only a very small portion of the path I’m on… a path still largely unexplored and unknown by myself.

I’m thankful to be having this experience.

Jason Harris lived as an orthodox Mormon for forty years. He writes about his experiences leaving the Mormon Church and reconstructing a new World-View. He believes all religions and scripture are man-made, potentially helpful and harmful. He believes there is Divinity in all of them and everywhere.