What is the CES Letter?
From the CES Letter website:
“CES Letter is one Latter-day Saint’s honest quest to get official answers from the LDS Church on its troubling origins, history, and practices. Jeremy Runnells was offered an opportunity to discuss his own doubts with a director of the Church Educational System (CES) and was assured that his doubts could be resolved. After reading Jeremy’s letter, the director promised him a response.
No response ever came.”
Who is Jeremy Runnells?
“Jeremy T. Runnells is a critic of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and author of the book titled A Letter to a CES Director. Runnells grew up as a seventh-generation member of the LDS Church with pioneer ancestry. He served a mission for the church in New York and graduated from church-owned Brigham Young University. Wikipedia“
The CES Letter website:
BOA: Why include the CES Letter in this section on Mormonism/LDS items?
This information is “nothing new” it’s been around for decades even centuries, that said, it has become popular and is in multiple accessible formats. Numerous LDS members have read these letters and have been influenced by them, as such, it is important for evangelists to know this material.