Lynn K. Wilder (born 1952) is a Christian author and former Brigham Young University (BYU) professor.
[4] They joined the LDS Church in 1977, after Mormon missionaries knocked on their door and converted them.
[3][5] Wilder earned a PhD at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
[2][6] In 2006, she converted and became an evangelical Born-Again Christian after her son, Micah, who was serving a Mormon mission to Orlando, Florida, told his parents that he was having doubts about the LDS Church and after studying the New Testament.
[3] Jana Riess characterizes Wilder's signature book, Unveiling Grace, as "more even-handed" than the provocative marketing campaign would suggest, differing from what Riess characterizes as the typical tell-all, ex-Mormon memoir in that it shows Wilder's love for Mormons as people, even as she rejects LDS theology.