Manifesto
A public place for serious letters to the LDS Church.
Letter To LDS was built for a specific problem: people write thoughtful, consequential letters to the LDS Church, but those letters usually vanish into private channels. This archive gives them a durable public home.
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Why this exists
People affected by the LDS Church often have something real to say: a request for accountability, a personal testimony, a warning, a historical correction, a plea for reform, or a careful record of harm. Most of that writing never becomes searchable, citable, or publicly legible.
Letter To LDS exists to solve that. It gives those letters one place to be published, read, referenced, and preserved over time.
What problem this solves
This site is not built for reactive posting. It is built for durable public address: writing meant to be read later, quoted accurately, and understood in context.
That makes it useful for several real cases: publishing an open letter to church leadership, documenting a personal experience that should not disappear, preserving dissent that would otherwise stay private, and assembling a public record around a disputed issue or period of church history.
What belongs here
- Open letters to the church, its leaders, or its members
- First-person accounts shaped by LDS belief, practice, discipline, service, or culture
- Well-argued dissent, appeals, and requests for correction or reform
- Historical documents, source material, and contextual records that help readers understand the issue
- Public writing intended to clarify, witness, document, or persuade
Why charge a fee
A modest fee creates useful friction. It helps keep the archive focused on intentional submissions instead of spam, bots, and drive-by heckling. The goal is not to make speech exclusive; the goal is to protect the quality, seriousness, and long-term readability of the record.
The fee also makes publication sustainable without advertising, without tracking users, and without selling their data. This is an enterprise-level publishing service built on decades of web development and publishing experience, and sustaining that standard requires real ongoing work.
What this is for
The goal is simple: if someone needs to understand what people were trying to say to the LDS Church in this period, they should be able to come here and find clear letters, relevant sources, and a usable public record instead of scattered fragments and vanished conversations.
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