Vote Here for the 2014 Brodie Awards!!!

It’s time to vote!! Here’s your opportunity to review all of the best works from 2014 and reward your favorites!! I added a few nominations since my earlier post so be sure to have a look at all the choices! The corresponding links are found below each poll.

Year-long awards for people and websites:

Best New Blog

• Nearing Kolob
• lds.net blog
• Funny Mormon Memes
• Mormonism 101
• Gospel Doctrine for the Godless
• Mormons are Funny
• God’s Meeting Minutes
• Sheep Dip
• weird mormon shit
• My In-laws Are Mormon
• Mormon Faith Crisis Help

Best Discussion Forum

• Exmormon Reddit
• Life After Mormonism
• postmormon.org
• RfM (exmormon.org)

Best Humor/Satire Site or Blog

• Funny Mormon Memes
• Brother Jake
• Infants on Thrones
• Mormons are Funny
• God’s Meeting Minutes
• Sheep Dip
• My In-laws Are Mormon
• Ward Gossip

Best LDS-Interest Audio/Video Channel

• Radio West by Doug Fabrizio et al.
• Infants on Thrones
• Brother Jake
• My Book of Mormon Podcast
• McKeever’s Mormon Research Ministry

Best LDS Church Watch/Analysis Blog or Website

• Mormon Leaks
• Mormonism 101
• Debunking FAIR’s Debunking
• Mormon File Leaks
• weird mormon shit
• Mormon Disclosures
• Latter-day Perspective

Best Scripture Study Blog/Podcast

• Gospel Doctrine for the Godless (by Daniel Midgley)
• Book of Mormon Commentary (by Alex)
• Dwindling in Unbelief (by Steve Wells and Philip Wells)
• My Book of Mormon Podcast (by David)

Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog

• Rational Faiths
• Wheat & Tares
• Doves & Serpents
• Worlds without End
• Young Mormon Feminists

Awards for Individual Works:

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)

• Free Electricity (by Ryan Rhodes)
• A Song for Issy Bradley (by Carys Bray)
• Behind the Zion Curtain (by Johnny Townsend)
• Selling the City of Enoch (by Johnny Townsend)
• Gayrabian Nights (by Johnny Townsend and others)
• A Day at the Temple (by Johnny Townsend)
• City of Brick and Shadow (by Tim Workus)
• The Lost Book of Mormon (by Avi Steinberg)

Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction)

• American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church (by Alex Beam)
• What To Expect When You’re Excommunicated: The Believing Mormon’s Guide to the Coming Purge (by Rock Waterman)
• Strange Flesh: The Bible and Homosexuality (by Steve Wells)

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image

• Not sure why OW is so upset. There are women at the highest levels of Church leadership. This proves it! (by soulure)
• Joseph Smith’s family portrait (by Pat Bagley)
• Kate Kelly online discussing her excommunication in absentia (by Trent Nelson)
• …on Kate Kelly’s pending excommunication (by Pat Bagley)
• Hey, Stan! Don’t speak evil of the Lord’s anointed! (recaptioning the famous South Park episode by 4blockhead)
• A rare copy of Joseph Smith’s Egyptology 101 Final Examination (by Bart Pascoal)

Best Mormon-Themed Meme

• Breaking News: President Newsroom’s Message to Average Joe/Jane Mormon
• Priorities (by Exmomemes)
• Scumbag Mormon God (by young_mossy)
• Ultimate Irony (by Brother_Zelph)

Most fantastic r/mormon AMA

• Kate Kelly
• Avi Steinberg
• Tom Kimball

Best Post Title

• A Tranny, A Mormon, And A 6’2″ Dyke Walk Into A Bar With A Midget… (by Dad’s Primal Scream)
• Praise to the Man Even with 40 Wives and Teenage Brides (by David Grant)
• Magnify your boobs (by Profet)
• code name bull$hit (by Holly)
• A few confessions on bad choices I’ve made since leaving the church – I’m only human after all. (by kimballthenom)
• No more Jack Handy quotes…. (by CS)
• Obedience is the first law of heaven aka the brethren.. (by CS)
• Members of Ordain Women Admitted into Priesthood Meeting for First Time, Immediately Regret it (by Snorri Sturluson)

Funniest Humor Piece

• 9 Mormons Who Would Make a Better Batman than Ben Affleck (by Kylie Ravsten)
• Ooooohhhhhmmmmmmbabyelephantsbabyelephants (by Natalie R. Collins)
• Dealing with Visiting Teacher Dodgers (by Donna Banta)
• Magnify your Boobs (by Profet)
• Satan Files for Bankruptcy (Infants on Thrones)
• Coffee (Infants on Thrones)
• A few confessions on bad choices I’ve made since leaving the church – I’m only human after all. (by kimballthenom)

Most Poignant Personal Story

• What my terrible trip to the museum taught me about patience, long-suffering, and eternal marriage (by Christopher D. Cunningham)
• Exposing the numbers behind LDS Growth in Latin America: A Missionary Confession (by Mike GQ)
• I found out too late (by _Wilted_Flower)
• Death (by Nick Bigney, Infants on Thrones)

Best Exit Story

• How a sacrament meeting in Afghanistan started me on my journey out of the church (by cvscout84)
• My Exit Story. Literally. (by kennedysleftnut)
• We are the family of 7 that just resigned! (by addictedtothetruth)
• The Match (by Cadence Woodland)
• Mormon Control (by Rachel Velamur)

Best Moving On from Mormonism Piece

• When the Levee Breaks (by Lori Burkman)
• How we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the church isn’t true (Mormon Expression podcast)
• You Can Leave the Church, but the Church Can’t Leave You Alone (by David Burns)
• Re-Learning Normal: Post-Mormon Edition (by Post-Mormon Girl)
• Believers vs. Atheists – Does It Really Matter? (by Mormon411)
• Oh yeah, I used to be mormon once (by Aerin)

Best Original Research Regarding Mormonism

• A comparison between the Book of Mormon and the Late War… (by Chris Johnson and Duane Johnson)
• Temple Name Oracle (by Clint Kimball)
• Latter-day Perspective
• A So-called “Post” (by Ziff)

Best LDS Church Watch Piece

• Missionaries coming home early? (by runtu)
• The Mormon Month from Hell (by Donna Banta)
• Under the Pretense of Love (by B. Very Chill)
• McKeever’s Mormon Research Ministry
• LDS Tithing: Bare Necessities (by Thinker of Thoughts)
• It’s Official: Mormon Founder Had Up to 40 Wives (by Laurie Goodstein)
• ‘Gay’ not an option in Mormon survey on sexual orientation (by Peggy Fletcher Stack)
• LDS Church should make clear Smith was wrong to take 14-year-old wife (by Kristy Money)
• Mormon Church Owns 2% of Florida! How Much Is That? (by Nearing Kolob)
• LDS Church Says Hugs and Heart-felt Conversations ‘Divisive’ (by Holly Welker)
• Missionary blog review series on Nearing Kolob

Best Podcast Series or Episode

• The Great Weird Off – Mormons vs. Jehovah’s Witnesses (Mormon Expression)
• The Narrating Ordain Women series (FMH podcast)
• Perfectionism and False Realities in the Perfect Mormon Family (FMH podcast)
• The Placebo Effect (series from Infants on Thrones)
• Interview with Sandra Tanner (Mormon Stories)
• Talk on Things and Stuff Interview: Fridge Profet

Best Response to Apologetics

• A few stops on a virtual tour of Nauvoo (by 4blockhead)
• The Fog of Marriage and More on the Polygamy Essays (by Runtu)
• Greg Trimble, the word is “Adultery” (by Mithryn)
• How to build a transoceanic vessel (Mormon Expression podcast)
• Pay no attention to the man behind the curtains~! Lived and Living Mormonism (by Andrew S)
• A Response to “Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham” (by Dr. Robert Ritner)
• Canaan’s Ark (by Adult Onset Atheist)
• LDS Marriage 2112 (by Geoff Nelson)

Most Interesting Interfaith Interaction

• Ordain Women: Some thoughts and encouragement (by Ms. Jack)
• The Christmas Jesus and stuff (Infants on Thrones Podcast)
• My kids vs. Grandma in an epic truth battle (by greyghostmachine)
• Testimonies of Other Faiths (by Faith Observer)
• Don’t Get Your Hopes Up! Conservative Arguments Against Liberal Mormon Activism (by Andrew S)
• What do little freethinkers believe in? (by Leia)
• New Witnesses this time (by Daniel Midgley)
• So the other day I brought my Atheist boyfriend to a Mormon church service. (by Kelsey S)

Best Religion-and-Race Discussion

• Mormonism and race in 2014 (by Andrew S)
• Mormonism and respectability politics (by Andrew S)
• No Surprise: Cliven Bundy is Racist (by Mark)
• “If Thou Doest Well, Thou Shalt Be Accepted” (by Daniel Midgley)

Best Religion-and-Gender Discussion

• Why aren’t the women included in this? (By Lori Burkman)
• What doesn’t kill you makes you… what? (by chanson)
• A Sexual Abuse Survivor Responds to Joseph Smith’s Polygamy
• Questions I’ll Probably Never Get to Ask the Mormon Missionaries (by The Sinister Porpoise
• Three Lessons (by Pandora)
• The Shelf (by Em)
• Women of Faith: How the Story was Created and Produced

Best Religion-and-Orientation Post

• Out-Patient Surgery: “I’m His Husband” (by Joseph Broom)
• Officially a Married Couple in Utah!! (by Chelsey Sidler-Lartey)
• Ty Mansfield on Deconstructing Homosexuality (while preserving heterosexuality) (by Andrew S)
• Prodigal Brother Syndrome (by Dad’s Primal Scream)

Best Erotic or Sexual Piece

• (NSFW) Mormongirlz: Sister Davis & Sister Price Get an Elder Off
• (NSFW) Mormonboyz: Elder Riley & Bishop Angus: Ordination
• Ask The Sex Girls | Hormonally On Fire (by KBSmalls)
• Blast from the past: Sex and shame in Mormon teenhood (by Liz Emery)

Best History Piece

• Year of Polygamy (fMh podcast series)
• Mormonism and the Red scare (Mormon Expression podcast)
• A few stops on a virtual tour of Nauvoo (by 4blockhead)
• Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo (by anonymous at lds.org)
• The Great Apostasy (by Mithryn)

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS

• The Privileges and Responsibilities of Sisters (by Colleen Kelly Poplin)
• The Buddhist Parable of the Raft (by Eric)
• The Cycle of Misattributed Victory Over Self-Abuse (by Thinker of Thoughts)
• Why outing Rock, John, and Kate is the worst PR move for the Church post Prop-8 (by iscreamsunday)
• Ordaining Women Would End Joyful Diversity (by Holly Welker)
• Top 5 Reasons That Letter from Public Affairs Broke My Heart (by prudypolly)
• What Do Millennials Want from the Church? (by Katie L)

Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion

• Modal, Model, Mormonism (by Andrew S)
• Fix your faith crisis with this one weird trick! (by Thinker of Thoughts)
• Cliven Hooves (by Adult Onset Atheist)
• The Shifting Sands of a Shaky Foundation! (by Steve Bloor)
• Concerning Cows Butts, Nuclear Fusion and The Word of the Lord (by JosephFSmith77)
• Truth & Deception (by Jen)

Best Parody/Metaphor/Analogy

• Re: Katie’s house felt different after her family stopped going to church (by sevennseven)
• No. I’m Sorry. I Don’t Want to Tour the New Mormon Temple with You (by Dad’s Primal Scream)
• MormonProbs at Hogwarts: If Harry Potter Were a Mormon (by Adam Williams)
• The Wall… (by anonymous)
• At The Gender Rolls Bakery (by April Young Bennett)
• Ordaining Women is a Slippery Slope (by Winterbuzz)
• The Metaphor of the Coat (by fMh Lisa)
• What Kind of Heterosexual are You? (by Donna Banta)
• Jesus’ PR Department: Context Missing From Pharisee Accusations (by Casey)
• The Mormon Corridor Is One Giant Field Hospital (by Holly)
• Doubt Your Doubts (by Diane E. Tingen)

Best Poem

• If Only (by Letters from the Vineyard)
• The Errand of Angels (by Gabriella Anne)
• Garden Games (by Cheryl Bruno)

Best Review

• What part of Mormonism is in you?: Johnny Townsend’s “A Day at the Temple” (reviewed by chanson)
• Review of The Lavender Scare (by JSeth Anderson)
• Little Factories (Infants on Thrones)
• Review of “Selling the City of Enoch” by Johnny Townsend (by Donna Banta)
• 50 Shades of Stockholm Syndrome (by Holly)
• Johnny Lingo (Movie Review) (by Kathryn Teleste)

Best Recipe

• Froggey’s coconut lemon bars
• Buffalo Falafel (by Heather)
• Fun with quinoa!! (by Chanson)
• Spanish Tortilla (by Highchair Travelers)

You have approximately two weeks to vote. The polls close on Thursday, February 12, at 7:00 a.m. Switzerland time. Good luck to all contestants!!!

Note: The Tarefic/Wheaties Awards is going on right now. Their awards lean father into the faithful end of the Mormon interwebs, but Main Street Plaza has been nominated for several awards (including Sunday in Outer Blogness as best series), so please go vote for us!!