Does Being Liberal Push Some Members Out of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

Jana Riess is the author of The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church (Oxford University Press, 2019) and the co-editor of Mormonism and American Politics (Columbia University Press, 2015). She has a PhD in American religious history and is a senior columnist for Religion News Service. She is the incoming president of the Mormon Social Science Association.

Benjamin R. Knoll is the John Marshall Harlan Associate Professor of Politics at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He earned a PhD in political science from the University of Iowa and specializes in public opinion and voting behavior. Along with Cammie Jo Bolin, he is the coauthor of She Preached the Word: Women’s Ordination in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2018).