Fair and Balanced

Well, I think that the initial "shock" of seer stones, money digging, polygamy, the Book of Abraham, etc. has worn off.  I said I was going to concentrate on the Book of Mormon, but got side tracked into reading (and watching YouTube) about various topics for about a month. I have literally been devouring information.

I noticed that I was tending to read LDS-critical sources. I think this is natural.  The "shock" of the information left me (and I assume others) with the feeling that the LDS Church has been hiding or lying about things. This leads you to read LDS-critical sources to find the "truth."

As I said in my original post:

I’ll see what the critics have to say, what LDS-friendly folk (FAIR, FARMS, etc.) have to say, what information the Church (General Authorities, Ensign, Gospel Topic Essays, etc.) has, and what my own research yields.

Therefore, I am making a bibliography of my research divided into 2 sections: LDS-Supportive and LDS-Critical. I do this for 3 reasons:

1. To ensure I read both the LDS-Supportive and the LDS-Critical side of each issue.
2. To more equally balance the amount of LDS-Supportive and LDS-Critical I read. Not that my reading will be equal, but that it doesn't become unduly lopsided.
3. To document what sources I used to draw my conclusions.

With this said, I don't have the time to research and read all (or a lot of) the material on a topic. I'm not a scholar; I have a day job.