Claudia Lauper Bushman is a professor of American studies at Columbia University in New York City and an expert on the history of Mormon women. She co-edited Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays From the Claremont Oral History Collection.

Read a May 29, 2014, Deseret News article about a letter released by Michael Otterson, senior spokesman for the LDS church, in response to online discussions about women in the church.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life posts resources about Mormonism and Americans’ attitudes toward Mormons.

Read a Nov. 1, 2012, article at Slate.com about Michael Quinn, one of the six Mormons excommunicated in 1993.

Read a June 11, 2014, Salt Lake Tribune story that describes how Mormon disciplinary hearings operate.

Read a June 11, 2014, New York Times story about the threatened excommunication of Kelly and Dehlin.

Read a June 11, 2014, story from The Salt Lake Tribune about the threatened excommunication of Kelly and Dehlin.

Jana Riess is a scholar and journalist known for her coverage and research of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is the author of The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church.

Kate Kelly is an attorney and women’s rights activist. In 2013, she founded Ordain Women, a grassroots organization that seeks the ordination of women to the Mormon priesthood. Contact Kelly through the form on her website.