Summaries

Very short

• Five Key Facts (~ 1 page)
• Just One Page
• 50 Problems with the Mormon Church (10 minutes) | 50 more problems (~37 minutes, more moral issues)

More significant

• LDS Discussions (in-depth discussion of the gospel topics essays, “Saints:The Standard of Truth”, and many key truth-claims; also on youtube)
• Letter For My Wife (almost all LDS approved sources) (Fairmormon response)
• What I Wish I had Known (almost all LDS-faithful sources)
• Letter From a Doubter (well-sourced narrative style explanation)
• Mormon Primer (multiple perspectives: mainstream, critical, apologetic, and progressive)
• Modern Day Pharisees (argues the modern Church deviates from what Jesus taught in the NT)
• Top Ten Evidences that Mormonism is Not True (YT, ~50 minutes)
• Examining Mormon Truth Claims (essays hosted at Mormon Stories by Mike Brown)
• Mormon Think (vast resource on LDS truth-claims)
• Shelf Breakers (almost all LDS approved sources)
• The Mormon Challenge (almost all LDS approved sources)
• A Letter to an Apostle (35 essays on the truth-claims)
• A Compilation of the Evidence Against the LDS Church
• Literally: Wrestling with historical curiosities in Mormonism
• The CES Letter (the most famous compilation, by Jeremy Runnells)

Other

• Mormonism with the Murph (believing member podcast that examines both sides)
• Questions to Ask
• The Mormon Paradox: A List of Inconsistencies That Challenge Faith (Bill Reel crowd-sourced from here)
• Brother Jake Videos (more light-hearted but summaries)

Additional resources and discussion can be found at the exmormon bookshelf, mormon, mormonscholar, and exmormon subreddits.

LDS Scholarly and Apologetic Resources

Official

• Gospel Topics Essays (churchofjesuschrist.org)
• Gospel Topics, Essays, and Other Resources (archive) (churchofjesuschrist.org)

Semi affiliated

• Evidence Central
  • A non-member response to some Evidence central posts (toybom - one year of the BoM)
• Neal A. Maxwell Institute (BYU affiliated institute for religious scholarship)
• FairMormon (The most significant LDS apologetic resource)

Not affiliated

• Mormonr (frank discussion of difficult questions; lots links to primary data)
• Mormonism with the Murph (YT videos w/ both critics and apologists; respectful, fair, balanced)
• Jeff Lindsay’s LDS FAQ: Mormon Answers
• lds subreddit
• 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. I’ve included links to responses, and Jeremy also keeps a running list of all his responses.

With counter-responses

1. FairMormon Analysis of CES Letter
   • Runnells’ response
2. A Faithful Reply to the CES Letter from a Former CES Employee (Jim Bennett, original as Stallion Cornell)
   • Runnells’ response
   • A pointed response to Jim Bennett (by bwv549)
     • CES Reply: A Pointed Response to a Pointed Response (by Jim Bennett)
3. dice1899’s CES Letter Rebuttal (Sarah Allen)
   • Runnells’ response
   • ImTheMarmotKing responses
     • KVJ Errors
     • Book of Abraham Misinformation
     • More on the Book of Abraham
   • bwv549 responses
     • rebuttal on science issues
     • response to Book of Mormon Translation Questions
4. Eye of the Beholder, Law of the Harvest: Observations on the Inevitable Consequences of the Different Investigative Approaches of Jeremy Runnells and Jeff Lindsay (Kevin Christensen)
   • Johnny Stephenson’s response
     • Image is Everything: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain (a counter-response by Kevin Christensen)
       • DoubleThink: The Mopologist Paradigm (a response to “Image is Everything” by Johnny Stephenson)
5. Some Reflections On That Letter To a CES Director (Daniel Peterson)
   • Runnells’ response
6. Jeremy Runnells and the Book of Abraham (Brian Hauglid at Rational Faiths)
   • Runnells’ response
7. “Anti-mormon spreading misinformation” by happiness-seekers blog
   • Runnells’ response

Without responses by Runnells

• The CES Letter: A Closer Look (page by page analysis, videos, and written responses)
• Conflict of Justice #CES Letter Fail
• Bamboozled by the “CES Letter” (Michael Ash)
• Evidence and Criticism of LDS Truth Claims, Theology, and Practice (video series by Brett M. McDonald)

See also

Resources related to the helps and harms of the LDS Church