Time to vote for the 2018 Brodie Awards!!!

The polls are now ready!! A huge thanks to everyone who nominated and shared with us this fantastic crop of amazing content from 2018!!

Year-long awards for people and groups:

Best New Podcast

• Marriage on a Tightrope
• The Drunk Mormon Podcast
• Latter Day Lesbian
• Glass Box Podcast
• Mormon Women Speak
• Wardless Podcast

Best New Blog/Channel/Site

• Mr. Atheist
• Unrigeteous Dominion
• Tapirshit

Best Podcast

• Mormon Happy Hour Podcast
• No Man Knows My Herstory
• Naked Mormonism
• Radio Free Mormon
• Infants on Thrones

Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast

• The Drunk Mormon Podcast
• Zelph on the Shelf
• Mr. Atheist
• Mormon Zodiac

Best Site of Images/Memes/Comics

• Tapirshit
• Stuff You Missed in Sunday School
• Love and Sects, by Devin Sunde

Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast

• The Drunk Mormon Podcast
• No Man Knows My Herstory
• Thoughts On Things and Stuff
• My Book of Mormon Podcast

Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor

• Stan Way “Faithful TBM”
• DrTxn
• CosmoMormonMagazine
• 4blockhead

Awards for Individual Works:

Best LDS-Interest Book (fiction)

• Mormon Erotica, by Donna Banta
• The Shoals of Ammoron, by Alex Hansen
• Mormon Madness, by Johnny Townsend
• The Moat around Zion, by Johnny Townsend

Best LDS-Interest Book (non-fiction)

• Educated, by Tara Westover
• How To Think: Why Rational and Faith-Based Thinking are Incompatible, by Spencer Wright
• Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children, by Wallace Jeffs

Best LDS-Interest Song

• Theme song to “The Drunk Mormon Podcast”
• You Can’t Touch This (COB), by Weird Alma
• Temple Changes, by Weird Alma
• Zelphraiser, by Jake, Who Is Dead
• Rocks, by Angela Soffe
• Atheists Write a Christian Song, by Zelph on the Shelf

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image

• Cosmomormon, Volume 1, Issue 5, by Reddit user CosmoMormonMagazine
• Pat Bagley: Buyer Beware
• The Mormon Zodiac signs
• Mormon Deadpool images
• ExMormonShirts.com
• The Seeing Eye Dog, by Jack Naneek
• Love and Sects, Chapter 9, by Devin Sunde
• Twain vs. McMurrin vs. Hubbard, by 4blockhead

Funniest Humor Piece

• Mormon Jesus Infomercial, by Zelph on the Shelf
• Cosmomormon Magazine, issue 5
• Conspiracy theory of Aunt Wendy and the Apostle Wives Club, by Red Ryder @ New Order Mormon
• ShadowLeaks Discovers a Modest-Is-Hottest Proposal
• I Don’t Take Women’s Ideas and Claim Them as My Own– God Gave Me These Ideas. And In Completely Unrelated News Please Don’t Talk About These Ideas and Let’s Pretend Those Women Don’t Exist, by Feminist Mormon Housewives

Best Parody or Metaphor

• Mormon-forcement Pornography, by Zelph on the Shelf
• Leaving religion is like drowning, by /u/candidecando
• What if Christ Interviewed Sinners Like Mormon Bishops Do
• Fake church apology before NCAA meeting, by Jonathan Streeter
• ShadowLeaks™ Releases LDS Church’s Sacred Memos

Most Poignant Personal Story

• Educated, by Tara Westover
• McKenna Denson/Joseph Bishop interview
• Elna Baker discussing her experiences with explicit questioning in worthiness interviews on This American Life
• 004 What’s Underneath: Dealing with Garments, Wardless Podcast Episode 004

Best Life Journey Piece

• Project Zion Podcast: Royleane and Steve Otteson
• Episode 42: Happy birthday to Kelsae and a coming out story
• Radio West interview with Tara Westover about her book, Educated”
• Truth Seeking with Hans and Birgitta Mattsson
• In the Language of My Former People, by Leah Elliott
• Brooke and Josh Miller, interview for Mormon Stories
• Exit Strategy: Stopping Church Attendance, Wardless Podcast Episode 003

Best History Piece

• Mormonism Research Ministry: Brigham Young’s “Adam is God” sermon.
• My Book of Mormon ep 209 on the lost D&C Section 101 on monogamy
• Reddit user mcguirerod pointed to a Massachusetts Supreme Court case from 1847 that declared Brigham Young had been a party to breaking up a marriage on the grounds of adultery.

Best Activist Action or Movement Within Mormonism

• Sam Young and Protect LDS Children
• Time for Cambio, Promoting Safety for Missionaries through sharing mission experiences
• Lesley Butterfield and Unrighteous Dominion
• Bill Reel’s debriefing after being excommunicated for exposing the church not being able to address his doctrinal questions, reported by Chris Caldwell in the St. George Spectrum

Best Leak or Personal Recording

• McKenna Denson/Joseph Bishop interview
• Lou Midgley for claiming Packer urged the 2012 John Dehlin hit piece and that members of the (once top secret) Strengthening the Members Committee had reviewed it…. all before Peterson was fired by email after GA involvement.
• Mormon Leaks for the internal Kirton McConkie document summarizing investigations of abuse
• Escorted out of F&T meeting today VIDEO

Best Watchdog Piece

• New York Times Obituary for Thomas Monson
• Perpetuating Abuse: Settlements and Non-Disclosure Agreements
• A Signed Open Letter to John Dehlin and the OSF
• Bill Reel, Mormon Discussions: Elder Holland, Liar Liar Pants on Fire
• Bill McKeever, Mormonism Research Ministry’s series of discussions about dropping the word “mormon” and its implications across the board.
• A Thoughtful Faith: Gina Colvin’s interview with Tim Kosnoff about the LDS church’s legal tactics to stonewall against clerical abuse.

Best Discussion of Activism

• Mormon Happy Hour: Interview with NewNameNoah Mike Norton on his Arrest for Trespassing LDS Temple
• Mormon Happy Hour: Interview with Sam Young after 23 Day Hunger Strike
• Mormon Stories 976-979: Experiencing Sexual Assault as a Missionary – Camille and Maddy
• Mormon Happy Hour’s two interviews with Lesley Butterfield: on Joseph Bishop and on UnrigheousDominion.org

Best Op-Ed

• Fred Karger: Chenoweth should bow out of performance with Tabernacle Choir
• Open letter to LDS Patriarchy, by Lesley Butterfield
• Teetotalers for Legal Marijuana, by Johnny Townsend
• Our Nazi Who Art in Heaven, by Johnny Townsend
• Why do so many religious Utahns still vote Republican, by Charlotte Maloney

Best Film or Media Presentation

• Bishop Interviews 2.0 – The Next Generation
• Church and State documentary film, by Holly Tuckett and Kendall Wilcox
• Believer

Best Scripture Study Piece

• The Weird and Wild Old Testament Podcast with Dr. Sheldon Greaves
• The Drunk Mormon Podcast: The Frickin’ Golden Plates!!
• My Book of Mormon Episode 166: D&C 66, Chapter 89 (Word of Wisdom)

Best From the Pulpit Sermon

• Thomas Shaffer
• Own Your Religion by Gregory Prince, a keynote speech at Sunstone 2018
• Gaining and Strengthening a Testimony, by BYU-Idaho University president, Henry J. Eyring

Best LDS-Culture Piece

• Why Its Not Helpful To Tell Me To Leave
• The Drunk Mormon Podcast: We Know Who Bigfoot Is
• Mormon Happy Hour: Soaking is Fundamental
• Mormon Happy Hour: Interview with Gina Colvin and Natasha Helfer Parker
• Mormonism + Misogyny = ? by Sisters Quorum

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS

• Radio Free Mormon: General Conference Death March
• Elder Oaks and the Bending of the Mormon Soul
• Sister Bednar – A Life of Doctrine Over Self
• Yes, I Can Forgive… by Sisters Quorum

Best Theological Discussion

• MHH32: An Evening with the Drunk Mormon Podcast
• The McConkie-Bednar Testimony “Going after the one” vs “What does it matter”
• Katie L at FMH deconstructing revised LDS policy on worthiness interviews in view of Christian theology.
• God as an answer to Fermi’s Paradox, by Ross Richey at Sunstone in Salt Lake City.
• Some Things that are Useful are Not True, by Alex

Best Discussion on Race

• The Racism 101 podcast
• The Pasquinade Apology on Mormon Racism, by Jonathan Streeter
• Zandra Vranes, Sistas in Zion
• The Long Promised Day: 40 Years Later, by Dr. Paul Reeve, University of Utah.

Best Discussion on Polygamy and/or Sexual Abuse within Mormonism

• Johnny Stephenson and Jeremy Runnels at Mormonite Musings for “The Irrational World of Brian Hales’ Polygamy.”
• Mosaic Podcast coverage of McKenna Denson’s story.
• Mormon Happy Hour: Mormon Sexual Trauma Dumpster Fire
• Mormon Happy Hour: Sam Young Reacts to Episode of This American Life
• The Wounded Women of Polygamy Culture, by Sisters Quorum

Best Discussion on Gender and/or Orientation

• Ask a Mormon Lesbian
• Mormon Women Speak, featuring Mica McGriggs, PhD and the Hushed Ones Documentarians
• Mormon Happy Hour: Queer Polygamy with Blaire Ostler
• “Good Standing” staged at Plan B Theater, author Matthew Greene
• Transgender Dilemma: At what point do my breasts determine my level membership in the church?, reported by Courtney Tanner, Salt Lake Tribune
• No Man Knows My Herstory: Discovering our queer selves

The polls will remain open until Sunday, February 17, 2019 @ 10a.m. Switzerland time. Good luck to everyone!!!