Lavina Fielding Anderson (13 April 1944 – 29 October 2023) was a Latter-day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist.
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.
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 disciplinary council, in which she affirmed her faith but also expressed multiple views contrary to church teachings.
[3] As mentioned below, Mercy Without End contains eighteen of her essays reflecting on her twenty-five years attending church as an excommunicant.