The LDS Church has changed many of the things I criticized in my book, Recovering Agency (2014). For my client's book, I'm writing a quick footnote on how they're trying to get away from the "Courts of Love" that "disfellowship" and "excommunicate" noncomplying members, because of course I have a whole bit in Recovering Agency unpacking this language.

Is it because of me? I have no way of knowing. I'm certainly not the first person to point this out. And I'm going to point it out again in my client's excommunication story. I will not stop calling it excommunication in favor the new *checks notes* "withdrawal of membership," because it is still excommunication. Members think of it that way, exmembers still do, and it's still cutting heterodox members off from status and connection in their community.

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