
Doug Ealy alerted me to this little article, which, I think, offers some helpful insights and the almost-always-useful perspective of a friendly “outsider”:
http://www.ldsliving.com/To-Mormons-With-Love-from-Your-Non-LDS-Neighbor/s/76513
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us.
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion
(Robert Burns)