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Lavina Fielding Anderson (13 April 1944 – 29 October 2023) was a Latter-day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist. Anderson held a PhD in English from the University of Washington.
Anderson was one of the original trustees of the Mormon Alliance, founded in 1992 to document allegations of spiritual and ecclesiastical abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 1993, Anderson published a chronology documenting over 100 cases of what she regarded as spiritual abuse by LDS Church leaders during the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. This article became grounds[1] for her excommunication on charges of apostasy in September 1993, as one of the September Six.[2]
Anderson remained as active in the LDS Church as her excommunicant status allowed; in 1996, she was described by Levi S. Peterson as exemplary of an emerging "church in exile" composed of faithful excommunicants. In the late 1990s, she published three volumes of Case Reports of the Mormon Alliance co-authored with Janice Allred, documenting sexual and ritual abuse by lay clergy and calling for improvement in the institutional treatment of victims. In 2019, her local stake leaders reconvened her court and recommended her rebaptism to the First Presidency; this was rejected without a reason, nor conditions for reinstatement.[3] As mentioned below, Mercy Without End contains eighteen of her essays reflecting on her twenty-five years attending church as an excommunicant.
She was married to Paul L. Anderson from 1977 until his death in 2018. She died at home from complications of pulmonary hypertension on October 29, 2023.[4]
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^"Has It Been Five Years Since The Purge?: Reflections Of 'The September Six'". Sunstone. 1998-01-01. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
^Stack, Peggy Fletcher (September 5, 2019). "Writer excommunicated during 'September Six' purge loses her bid to rejoin the LDS Church". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
^Stack, Peggy Fletcher (October 30, 2023). "'September Six' writer-editor who was denied reentry into the LDS Church dies". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
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