2012 Brodies: Vote Here!!
Year-long awards for people and websites
Awards for Individual Works
Naturally, this is the part that kept me from finishing the polls yesterday as I’d planned — it was just so interesting to review all of these amazing posts from 2012!! I’m planning to skip SiOB this week (and do a double one next week) so that you won’t be distracted from reviewing the nominees! As always, I reorganized the categories a bit — adding or splitting some, deleting or combining others — according to which categories were strongly represented.
The links follow each poll, due to length restrictions on the poll entries.
2012 Brodies: Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)
- “The Girls From Fourth Ward” by Donna Banta
- “Marginal Mormons” by Johnny Townsend
- “Chaste” by Angela Felsted
2012 Brodies: Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction)
- “Not by Bare Assertions but by Evidences and Reason” by Brad Garn
- “Understanding the Tao Te Ching” by Spencer K. Wright
- “Mormon Diaries” by Sophia L. Stone
- “Could I Vote for a Mormon for President?” by Ryan T. Cragun
2012 Brodies: Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image
(Vote on the image(s) found at the link, not on the post)
- Population Growth in the Book of Mormon
- Men are Incredible!
- I love my Mormon husband
- Cap Sleeves and a Polo
- Mormon Flow Chart for Your Soul
- CHIv1 Trivia Game, 2010 Edition
2012 Brodies: Best Poem
2012 Brodies: Best Musical Work
- Lori Crandall’s “I’m Steppin’ Up”
- Ordinary Van’s “This City”
- Hymn parodies: THEY, THE BUILDERS OF THE MALL, OH, HOLY CRAP, IT’S FILLED WITH LIES, and HAVE YOU STUDIED BELIEFS OF THE MORMON CHURCH?
- You Might as Well Wear a Skirt
- Put on Your Pants
2012 Brodies: Best Post Title
- Scuse Me While I Marry This High Guy
- In which an attractive woman sticks her finger up my butt
- Holy Crap! (pun intended) This Church Owns a Mall! (and why the Bloomberg cover gets it just right)
- If we’re so happy, why are we suicidal?
- New ILLIN’ LDS Newsroom Prophecy
- Talk is cheap…Unless you’re talking to a therapist
2012 Brodies: Funniest Humor Piece
- Romney on Labor Day
- Sister Sanctimonious Vol I:2
- When Richard Dawkins is Baptized
- It’s Our Moment!
- General Conference: What are the Odds?
2012 Brodies: Funniest Vignette or Anecdote
- The FAQ’s on Coke and Pepsi
- Oh the horror!!!
- Gay Trees and Gadianton Robbers: Election 2012
- He really just wanted Doritos, and I said no.
2012 Brodies: Most Poignant Personal Story
- But I was only 5
- And suddenly life imploded…
- Bury Their Dead
- Bull$#!t Mormon Stories that my Family tells Themselves
- Abortion Saved My Mother’s Life. Savita Halappanavar was not so lucky.
- The Cake Is a Lie
- My personal legitimate rape
2012 Brodies: Best Exit Story
- Words Awakening
- The Shelf of Doubt
- The Great Unknowing
- My failed Mormon resignation
- But I’m a good Mormon wife
2012 Brodies: Best Moving On from Mormonism Story
- Shunned and Happy
- I MISS YOU LDS CHURCH…er…I mean…I miss your potlucks!
- Are You Experiencing Ex-Mormon Stereotype Threat?
- Living IS the point.
- Answers to Prayer
- Freedom
2012 Brodies: Best Life Journey Post
- CTR (or, as Grace would say, cuh-tuh-err)
- Horseback Riding with my Dad
- The Virgin Prostitute
- Tell it like it is
2012 Brodies: Best News Reporting
- Is Sutherland’s “Abstinence-Only†Data True or Bogus? Some Thoughts
- A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Truth or The Onion?
- The Swedish Rescue
- Brazil mystery: Case of the missing Mormons (913,045 of them, to be exact)
- A Change Would Do You Good, parts 1, 2, 3 + timeline
- Google Apostasy spreads to the United States
- The Bott Gaffe: A Chronology
2012 Brodies: Best LDS Church Watch
- Hold Your Breath…
- Pay Lay Missionary
- December 2012 Ensign Highlights
- Can BYU kick out students for deconverting? two parts
- Do Not Ever Slap or Poke an Elder
- Open Letter to Europe Area Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- And…The Book of Abraham is de-canonized
- Caff it up, Mormons.
- On immodest angels . . .
- The Racist LDS Church Accuses Randy Bott of Being Racist
2012 Brodies: Best Response to Apologetics
- AngelicFerrit’s project to translate the Book of Mormon into plain English.
- Lou Midgley Gives Two Tens for a Five and Hypocrisy and Personal Attack
- Smoking guns
- Tactics of a Mormon Apologist
- Is Anyone in Charge?
- Repudiating Sexism?
2012 Brodies: Most Insightful Discussion of the Practices of the CoJCoL-dS
- Comparing the LDS church to “the party” from George Orwell’s 1984.
- Why Mormons Are Okay with the Church Making Lots of Money…
- Criticism
- Fostering a Good Environment for Independent Thought (and Why the Church Fails to Do It)
- Drink coffee: unworthy to enter a Mormon temple. Torture people: worthy to be a Mormon bishop
2012 Brodies: Most Insightful Discussion of Mormon Culture
- Watch where you’re walking
- Mormon Emotionality Compared to Other Constructions of Emotions
- Keep Campaigning Abbottsville Fourth!
- What it Means to Be Mormon
- Dick and Jane: or, The Marriage Trap
- The Cost of Being a Mormon
2012 Brodies: Best Discussion of Mormon (or former-Mormon) Community
- Shunning Your Fellow Saints: You’re Doing it Wrong.
- Because the Need to Understand a Relationship Often Doesn’t Die When the Relationship Does
- Cultural Markers
- Second Class Citizens, a Series: Part-Member Family
2012 Brodies: Most Interesting Interfaith Interaction
- Romney’s Religion “Mormonism”
- Mormon Intra-faith Dialogue Under Controlled Circumstances
- When He Stopped Believing
- In the world, but not of the world
- Atheism and ethics — again.
2012 Brodies: Best LDS-Related Political Commentary
- My Spooky Republican Hell Dream
- Politico: Obama Will Ride the Cursed to Victory!
- Mitt Romney and a Mormon Priesthood Apology
- Blank Check
2012 Brodies: Best Religion-and-Gender Discussion
- A Woman’s Place Series
- The dignity of your womanhood…
- Everything I Know about Feminism I Learned from the 1970s
- Heavenly Codependency
- Why Language Matters: A Side-by-Side Look at a Lesson from the New YW/YM Manuals
- Is Gender Really Eternal?
- Step 1: Be Mormon…and Male
2012 Brodies: Best Religion-and-Homosexuality Discussion
- Winning And Losing On Chick-fil-A Day
- Same Sex Parenting Study Already Proven Flawed
- Moroni, Superman and the Atonement
- What the heart wants
- Circling the Wagons: My Testimony
2012 Brodies: Best Religion-and-Kids/Parenting Discussion
- What Will I Teach My Kids?
- The Christmas Stories
- Hamor: the best father in the Bible (Greater love hath no father than this, that he cut off his own foreskin for his son.)
- Holy Ghost Train
- Primary kids get what the adults don’t
- On turning 12
- Why I Can’t Go Back to the LDS Church Until My Daughter Turns 18
2012 Brodies: Best Erotic or Sexual Piece
- Oreo
- Understanding the Male Sex Drive
- Commentary: “Women, Do Your Wifely Duty To Prevent Your Husband From Sin
- Male Sexuality In The Mormon Church
- My Vagina Testimony!!
2012 Brodies: Best History Piece
- Circling the Wagons
- Seers, seerstones, scrying, and folk magic. Timeline in the Palmyra area
- Joseph Smith and Baseball: The Evidence
- Thou Art a Whore
2012 Brodies: Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion
- What if we could edit the Bible?
- Billy Graham and Mark 7:9: No picking and choosing allowed! (You must stone to death your disobedient children.)
- Froggie’s Creed
- The Trinity Explained
2012 Brodies: Best Review
- Under the Banner of Heaven
- One size does not fit all: Johnny Townsend’s “Marginal Mormonsâ€
- Book Review: The Girls From Fourth Ward
- Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration
- Book Review: Could I Vote for a Mormon for President?
2012 Brodies: Best Recipe
- Pumpkin Curry Soup
- General Conference Cinnamon Rolls
- Baking is so NOT dumb
- Froggie’s Autumn Cookies
- sharing the weight (recipe: strawberry riesling jam)
- Spaghetti Pie
The polls close on February 6 at 1am Swiss time — good luck, and happy reading!!!
So many good choices! How will I decide??!?
I know. The competition is stiff!
I know ! I tried not to go too overboard on adding my own nominations (to make sure it’s reasonable for interested voters to read most or all of them), but there were so many interesting posts!!
One particular trend that stood out for me is the strength of the “News Reporting” and “LDS Church Watch” categories. Usually I think of blogspace as mostly for commentary and discussion, but in 2012 there were really a lot of stories that either broke in blogspace or where the story was covered best by the blogs.
I agree chanson. There is a lot of really good news being made, or reported, as it happens. Honestly, I didn’t really understand what the category meant, or I would have added the guest post from my friend surviving Hurricane Sandy. Although I guess it wasn’t really LDS themed though.
I am glad I have some time to read through all of these. Do I have to worry about closing my browser? (Is it considered cool or stupid to mention being nominated on our personal blogs?)
I was so impressed with the many great entries presented here that I don’t even mind that I was snubbed this year!
Fun topics. Kind of disappointed that LifeAfterMormonism.net wasn’t included in the best forum category. Oh well. Maybe next year.
So you got snubbed too, eh Mike? Well, I guess we both had our day in the sun in previous years.
That is true Rock, however, many of the other contenders have had their fair share of past lime light as well. I wonder how broadly they sought nominations. This is the first I’ve heard of the Brodie awards for this year.
@10 Yeah, I was going to say I feel like I didn’t publicize the nominations well enough this year. In the past, I’ve written to you about the nominations, and this year I forgot to do that.
Also, in the past, I’ve done a “last call for nominations” post that lists the nominations up to that point — to help people get an idea of which categories still need nominations, and to get people who may have missed the earlier nominations thread another chance to see it.
Anyway, I really regret the sloppiness of this year’s Brodie Award nomination process. (I’ve been crazy busy with moving and work, etc., but I obviously could and should have put up the “last call for nominations” post.) I hope the Brodies will be fun this year anyway, and next year’s will be even better!!!
Doesn’t bother me, Chanson. I’m a big admirer of you for all that you do in promoting the Bloggernacle, and I think you have quite an impressive bunch listed here that I would not have even known of had it not been for your good work. I understand how life can get in the way of things. Anyway, you have promoted the heck out of my blog, “Pure Mormonism” several times in the past, and I’m the proud recipient of a Brodie Award for last year, which was completely unexpected, so Whoo Hoo!
This is slightly off topic but I just realized there is no link on the side bar to call up the 2011 winners.
@14 Yeah I know — a little bit of procrastination. 😉
After this batch of awards is done, I’ll add the latest buttons in the sidebar for all the missing years of both awards.