Jana Riess: This is your brain on Mormon Facebook

Over the summer in a social media group, a woman commented that most ex-Mormons leave the faith because they have read the so-called CES letter, begun exploring the underside of their religion’s history, and become convinced that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn’t true.I responded that statistically, such people are actually in the minority. Most people who leave the church do so when they are quite young; the median age for leaving in the Next Mormons research, fo