My bio reads, “I love Mormonism, but I don’t believe in the church.” Recently someone asked me about this, confused. How could these two things be separate? The person also reminded me, we don’t call ourselves “Mormon” anymore.
But I do. I call myself Mormon, though I don’t attend church at the moment. And I love Mormonism as much as anyone.
I love the Mormonism that taught me when I was a child that any untutored young boy (and I thought then, girl, too) could go to a grove of trees and pray and that God would appear to that boy or girl and speak because God would speak to us all if we asked.