Sunday School Dropouts
Sunday School Dropouts
Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery
Purity Culture in the LDS Church
1 hour 22 minutes Posted Mar 3, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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In this first of a two part conversation on Sunday School Dropouts, Andrew Kerbs and Laura Anderson sit down with Ashley Buckner, LMFT, to explore her journey growing up in an unorthodox Mormon home in Cedar City, Utah, and the lasting impact of purity culture and childhood sexual abuse. Ashley shares what it was like to grow up in a “less than” Mormon family with a Catholic father prior to his baptism, the pressure to perform worthiness, and the shame of being born to parents who were pregna...