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Congratulations Brodie Award Winners 2015!!!

chanson, February 6, 2016

The votes are in, and here’s the list of talented people and impressive works that won the coveted Brodie Awards this year!!

Year-Long Awards for overall quality:

Best New Blog 2015: Zelph on the Shelf

Best New Podcast 2015: Naked Mormonism Podcast

Best Discussion Forum 2015: r/exmormon

Best Humor Blog/Site/Channel/Podcast 2015: Brother Jake

Best LDS-Interest Interview-and-discussion Podcast 2015: Mormon Stories Podcast

Best LDS Church Watch/Analysis Blog/Site/Channel/Podcast 2015: Thoughts on Things and Stuff

Best Scripture Study Blog/Site/Channel/Podcast 2015: My Book of Mormon Podcast

Best Faithful-Perspective Blog/Site/Channel/Podcast 2015: A Thoughtful Faith Podcast

Awards for Individual Works:

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2015: Their Works Shall Be in the Dark, by Alex Hansen

Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction) 2015: The Book of a Mormon: The Real Life and Strange Times of an LDS Missionary, by Dr. Scott D. Miller

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image 2015: Brutally Honest Mormon Coloring Pages, by Gileriodekel

Best Mormon-Themed Meme 2015: Nephi, Mormon and Moroni discuss the seer stone on Facebook and they’re not happy, by xoanan

Funniest Humor Piece 2015: Infants on Thrones song series: Disney Songs for Alienated Mormon Kids and Church House Rock: Polly Polly Gamy

Best Parody 2015: Updated Primary Songs for Children of Gay Parents, by the Debrief Society Podcast

Best Allegory or Analogy 2015: 50 Shades of Grey: Mormonism’s Accidental Allegory, by Gina Colvin

Best Post Title 2015: If You’re a Pharisee and You Know it Wash Your Hands, by Tanner Gilliland

Best Original Research Regarding Mormonism 2015: Joseph Smith Disorderly Disgrace, by Naked Mormonism Podcast

Best Mormon Scoop or Leak 2105: Handbook policy leak, by FearlessFixxer

Best Personal Recording 2015: An audio recording of the Boise Rescue Mission, by cagelessbird

Best Church Watch 2015: New Church Essay is Lies, by Kate Kelly

Best Response to Apologetics 2015: Now We’re Blaming the Victims? by Natasha Helfer Parker

Best History Piece 2015: How the Book of Mormon Translation Story Changed over Time, by Christopher Smith

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS 2015: Any Opposed, Please Sit Down and Shut Up, by Alan Rock Waterman

Best Scripture-Study Piece 2015: CC – The Book of Mormon, by Naked Mormonism Podcast

Best Mormonism-and-Orientation Piece 2015: Michael Ferguson, Seth Anderson/ Fighting Gay Conversion Therapy, by Mormon Stories

Best Mormonism-and-Race Discussion 2015: Lowry Letters: The Follow-up Discussion, by Infants on Thrones

Best Mormonism-and-Gender Discussion 2015: What Mormon Women Get, by Thinker of Thoughts and Jamie Hanis Handy

Best Exit Story 2015: Leaving the Church: A Compilation of the Evidence Against the LDS Church, by Eric Nelson

Best Faith Journey Piece 2015: Why I Love the LDS Church Enough to Both Criticize It AND Step Away From It, by Clean Cut

Best Advice 2015: 10 DOs and DON’Ts For Thanksgiving With Your Mormon Family, by Zina Jacobs-Smith-Young

Most Poignant Personal Story 2015: 234 LDS Mass Resignation Interviews, by Sage Turk

Best Mormon Parenting Piece 2015: Dad’s Primal Scream’s series on his kids and the policy

Best Real-Life Act or Activism 2015: Chubs Gato offering free resignation services

Most Interesting Interfaith Interaction 2015: Interfaith service at the opening of the 2015 Salt Lake Pride Festival, hosted by Community of Christ (Linkhart, Bryant)

Best from-the-pulpit speech/sermon 2015: a speech at the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City, by John Dehlin

Most fantastic r/mormon AMA 2015: church employee Daniel Miller

Best Poem 2015: Dear Dad, by Alice_McCann

Congratulations to everyone who participated!! There were tons of votes this year — some categories had more than 400, and only a handful had less than 100 — and some really tight races!! See for yourself.

Congratulations especially to the winners!! Here are the winner buttons you can post on your websites:

To everyone else — better luck next year! :D

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