Have just finished reading, Leaving the saints: How I lost the Mormons and found my faith by Martha Beck (2005). It's a well written book and tells a fascinating story of a couple who left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). (A Mormon critique can be found at here .) In Martha's case, she left the Mormons and finds a new faith. Beck alleges that she was sexually abused by her scholarly father, an apologist extraordinaire for the LDS, from the age of five although none of her siblings support her accusations. What I found fascinating about her journey from one faith to another was the character of the new faith. Just a day after reading her book, I was researching Emmet Fox's teachings and suddenly noticed the correspondences and resonances between the two. Of course, behind the two is the New Thought movement to which Oprah Winfrey also belongs. Martha Beck describes movingly her experience of trying to connect with God with the words: please, please
we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen --Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles