Wilder attended high school in
Richmond, Indiana. The couple have three sons, Joshua, Matt and Micah, and a daughter, Katie. They joined the LDS Church in 1977, after
Mormon missionaries knocked on their door and converted them. Wilder earned a
PhD at
Ball State University in
Muncie, Indiana. 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. Two years after her conversion, she resigned from BYU.
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. ==Bibliography==