Summaries
Very short
- Five Key Facts (~ 1 page)
- Just One Page
- 50 Problems with the Mormon Church (~10 minute youtube video)
More significant
- Mormon Primer (multiple perspectives: mainstream, critical, apologetic, and progressive)
- Letter For My Wife (almost all LDS approved sources) (Fairmormon response)
- Letter From a Doubter (well-sourced narrative style explanation)
- The Mormon Challenge (almost all LDS approved sources)
- A Compilation of the Evidence Against the LDS Church
- Literally: Wrestling with historical curiosities in Mormonism
- An End to Cognitive Dissonance
- The CES Letter (the most famous compilation, by Jeremy Runnells)
Other
- Brother Jake Videos (light-hearted but accurate summaries)
- Questions to Ask
Additional resources and discussion can be found at MormonThink1 and the exmormon bookshelf, mormon, mormonscholar, and exmormon subreddits.
Official LDS and Apologetic Resources
- Gospel Topics Essays (lds.org)
- Gospel Topics, Essays, and Other Resources (lds.org)
- FairMormon (The most significant LDS apologetic resource)
- Jeff Lindsay’s LDS FAQ: Mormon Answers (prolific apologist)
- Neal A. Maxwell Institute (BYU affiliated institute for religious scholarship)
Additional apologetic discussion may be found at the latterdaysaints subreddit.
Responses to the CES Letter
The CES Letter is the most well-known compilation of problems with LDS truth-claims. Below are responses to the CES Letter. Where he has responded, I’ve included a link to the response by Jeremy Runnells (author of The CES Letter).
With responses by Runnells
- FairMormon Analysis of CES Letter (Runnell’s response)
- Letter to a CES Director: A Closer Look (page by page analysis, videos, and written responses)
- Some Reflections On That Letter To a CES Director (Runnell’s response)
- Jeremy Runnells and the Book of Abraham (Runnell’s response)
- Eye of the Beholder, Law of the Harvest: Observations on the Inevitable Consequences of the Different Investigative Approaches of Jeremy Runnells and Jeff Lindsay (Runnell’s response)
- “Anti-mormon spreading misinformation” by happiness-seekers blog (Runnell’s response)
Without responses by Runnells
- A Reply from a Former CES Employee (by Stallion Cornell)
- Evidence and Criticism of LDS Truth Claims, Theology, and Practice (video series by Brett M. McDonald)
General pros/cons of the LDS lifestyle
- Helps and Harms (1 page)
- The Pros and Cons of Mormonism (in-depth analysis)
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www.mormonthink.com is a vast resource for presenting and discussing LDS truth-claims. The site states that they are “neither an anti-Mormon website nor an LDS apologist website”, but the discussion and tone is overwhelmingly critical, lest the reader be miseld by this disclaimer. Regardless, it is a highly useful resource as long as the site’s bias is clearly appreciated.↩