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Phase II of Brodie Awards Nominations!!

chanson, January 8, 2017

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We have some really fantastic nominations for the Brodie Awards so far — thanks to everyone who has nominated! And don’t forget that the voting for X-Mormon of the year will continue here until Thursday, January 12, 2016.

This post is my first pass at collecting the nominations (and adding my own), so that you can see which categories need more work! 😀

Year-long awards for people and groups:

Best New Blog/Channel/Podcast This category could use some more nominations — note it is limited to blogs/channels/podcasts that first started posting during 2016 (or very late in 2015, eg. December).

  • Celestial Sex
  • iKnowMormon
  • Tocubit Is Invisible’s Cubit

Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast

  • Brother Jake
  • Beehive Bugle
  • Zelph on the Shelf

Best Scripture Study Blog/Channel/Podcast

  • My Book of Mormon Podcast
  • Against the Greater Light
  • Gospel Doctrine for the Godless

Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast

  • Mormon History Guy
  • Exploring Mormonism
  • Naked Mormonism Podcast

Best LDS-Church-Info Site

  • Fuller Consideration
  • Mormon Bandwagon
  • MormonThink

Best LDS-interest Discussion Forum: This category needs at least two more nominations to be included in the awards phase.

  • r/exmormon/

Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor

  • u/Mithryn
  • u/hiking1950
  • u/fearlessfixxer
  • u/newnamenoah

Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog or Podcast

  • The Church is True, by Randall Bowen — Is this even a blog? I can’t find it…
  • Mormon Discussion Podcast
  • Zelophehad’s Daughters
  • Exponent II
  • By Common Consent
  • Wheat & Tares
  • Rational Faiths
  • A Thoughtful Faith

Awards for Individual Works:

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) This category needs at least one more nomination to be included in the awards phase.

  • Invasion of the Spirit Snatchers, by Johnny Townsend
  • The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, by Scott Hales

Best LDS-Interest Book (General non-fiction)

  • Administrative Records, Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846 from the Joseph Smith Papers Project
  • Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon: Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical
  • The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men, by Carol Lynn Pearson

Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction)

  • Glorious in Persecution…Joseph Smith, by Martha S. Bradley-Evans
  • William B. Smith…in the shadow of the prophet, by Kyle R. Walker
  • Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History, by
    Gregory A. Prince
  • Religious Rehab: A Memoir, by Todd Maxwell Preston
  • Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage

Best LDS-Interest Song

  • Midnight, by Tyler Glenn
  • Brother Joseph, by Brother Jake
  • Trash, by Tyler Glenn
  • You Can’t Have Sax in the Chapel, by subversive asset
  • Don’t You Dare Bail, by Diane Tingen

Best Poem

  • What was left unsaid and Personal Wave, Global Ocean, by Luman Walters
  • Apparitions, by Don Bagley
  • Return, pt. III and Gaia, by Rachael Matthews
  • Bath, by Steph
  • Junebug, by Leia

Best Exmo Fiction Posted Online: For this category to continue, we need at least one more nomination — also I need to know which of Don Bagley’s stories (from 2016) on the page below was the intended nomination.

  • Something by Don Bagley…?
  • The Incidental Prophet, by Runtu

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image

  • The Lost 116 Pages: How It Should Have Ended, by Steve Otteson
  • Pat Bagley: on reporting rape at BYU
  • If Jesus were leading the meetings…, by happy_apostate
  • Religious Freedom at BYU, by Bart Pascoal

Best Mormon-Themed Meme Note to happy_apostate: please pick which one of your nominations you would like to have as your entry in the awards phase — otherwise it’s too many nominations of the same artist by the same nominator, plus I prefer not to have multiple works by the same artist competing against each other in a single category.

  • Where Will You Go? – Artistic Edition, by Steve Otteson
  • Olympic Mental Gymnastics, by happy_apostate
  • Every Member a Janitor, by happy_apostate
  • Harriet Tubman Left Slavery but she couldn’t Leave It Alone, by happy_apostate
  • Of course it isn’t a cult, by happy_apostate
  • Follow the prophet… Cheers!, by happy_apostate
  • Satan lurks in the shadows, by happy_apostate
  • Seerstone iPhone, by jersephsmerth

Best Post Title

  • The Dominant Narrative Is Not True, by Bill Reel
  • Joseph’s Technicolor Dream-Stone, by Naked Mormonism Podcast, SpEdEp 36
  • You’d Be Surprised How Many Women Joseph Didn’t Have Sex With, by Casey
  • Pussy Grabbernacle Choir Begins Telestial Outreach Tour, by Timothy McFoster
  • The purpose of the church history department, rather than the purpose of church history, this is really the purpose of our department, is to help God’s children make and keep sacred covenants, by Mithryn

Funniest Humor Piece

  • 8 Sure Signs of Apsotasy, by Tanner of Zelph
  • How I feel about TSCC most days.
  • Ex-Mormon Man’s Sins to Blame, Not Thousands of Hours of Church History Research, by Zina of Zelph
  • Elder Holland Furious over Apostate Flapdoodles, by Mahonri Smith

Funniest Parody

  • Rejected Millennial Star Posts, by Casey
  • Brother Joseph, by Brother Jake
  • Excommunicating Apostates: A One Act Play, by James Patterson
  • Mormon Newswire: Church to Combine Ex-Communication Vigils, by Paul Barker

Best Metaphor/Analogy/Allegory

  • After being excommunicated, Amy Malouf compares the church to a nicely wrapped present; it may be beautiful on the outside, but there are nasty surprises hiding inside.
  • You are not dirty and undesirable, YOU ARE GOLD, by Richie T
  • Top 10 ways the church is like North Korea, by Mormon Expression Podcast

Best From the Pulpit Sermon

  • Seth Bryant, May 25
  • Stephen Veazey, June 13
  • Tad Callister

Most Poignant Personal Story

  • Naked Mormonism Podcast – “CC – Norma” (after episode 41)
  • Elizabeth Grimshaw – Facing LDS Excommunication for being Same-Sex Married
  • Heritage: Full Circle, by Dad’s Primal Scream
  • Kid’s b-day wish was that his dad wouldn’t get called to stake presidency, by Geomu
  • What it was like in the closet, by Ben
  • Mormon and Gay, by John Gustav-Wrathall
  • Cleaning the Church to Tears, by Sam Young

Best Exit Story

  • Tyler Glenn
  • Revisiting My Story, by Luman Walters
  • Doubt, the true path to enlightenment, by Myrtlejoy
  • Impossible Promises, by Steve Otteson
  • Up And Onward To Something Better, by Albert of Zelph
  • A Year Ago Today Everything Changed, by Tanner of Zelph
  • Benefit of Doubt, by Thunderchicken

Best Original Research Regarding Mormonism

  • Analysis of membership statistics
  • Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis, by Benjamin Knoll
  • Discrediting the Expositor: Part 3, Mad Hominem, by Thinker of Thoughts
  • Faculty Gender Balance at the BYUs – Graphs of the Data, by Ziff

Best Leak or Personal Recording

  • The excommunication of Jeremy Runnells, by Jeremy Runnells
  • Leaked conversation with the brethren and former Oregon Senator, Gordon Smith, by anonymous via Ryan McKnight
  • Apostle Rasband gives fireside advice to the youth, by anonymous
  • Behind the Veil 2, by NewNameNoah

Best LDS Church Watch Piece

  • Religious Freedom and Utah’s Theocracy, by Albert Carrington (Zelph on the Shelf)
  • No, there have not been 30 talks about child abuse in General Conference since 1976, by Ziff
  • News of BYU Rape Policies are Triggering Me…, by Natasha Helfer Parker
  • The Mysteries of God, or Handbook 1, by Lisa Torcasso Downing
  • What happens without a loyal opposition? by Stephen R. Marsh
  • The Church Doesn’t Hide its History, by Heath Workman
  • City Creek Center – breeding cynicism, by ProfXM

Best Response to Apologetics

  • The Dominant Narrative Is Not True, by Bill Reel
  • Bursting the Bubble: What Mark Twain Really Thought of Mormonism, by Zina of Zelph on the Shelf
  • Mormon statement on child abuse: Move along, folks; we don’t have a problem, by Jana Riess
  • Floyd Weston’s 17 Points of Contrived Confirmation Bias, by Fred W. Anson

Best Item on LDS.org This category needs at least one more nomination in order to be included in the awards phase.

  • Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo
  • pro LGBT message on the cover of the June Friend

Best LDS-Culture Piece

  • Highway to Hell, Verlyne’s Love Affair With Coffee
  • Salt – An MTC Tale, by 68Cadillac
  • Why Mormons Are So Friendly, by Thinker of Thoughts
  • On Being Brown… on Pioneer Day, by Gina Colvin
  • Fat fighting 70s Mormon style… by Knotty
  • Challenging the “Addiction” Paradigm with Regard to Pornography, by Mormon Matters Podcast

Best History Piece

  • The Adam God Historical Subterfuge, by Mormon Discussion Podcast
  • Mark Hoffman Series on Naked Mormonism Podcast (after Spec Ed 28)
  • How Mormon Women Were Correlated Out of LDS Church Finances, by Joanna
  • Remarkable Transparency, by Runtu
  • Eliza Snow, The Mormon War & Her Alleged Gang-Rape, by Grindæl

Best Scripture Study Piece

  • What if the Book of Mormon was True?, by Paul Barker
  • 3 Nephi 19: In Which Jesus is Terrible at his Job, by Alex
  • The Bible makes sense when you realize it’s nonsensical, by John Draper
  • 8 Crazy Teachings of the Journal of Discourses, by Zina of Zelph
  • BoM Lesson 15 (King Benjamin 1), by Daniel Midgley
  • “It’s just words, folks”: Donald Trump’s and the Bible’s, by Steve Wells

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS

  • Unanimity Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be, by Dad’s Primal Scream
  • Leadership Myopia, by Jason L
  • Instruments in the Orchestra – How Inclusive is the Gospel of Jesus Christ?, by Andrew S
  • Malcom Gladwell, Elder Holland and the Legitimacy of Authority, by James Patterson
  • The Laundry List, by Steve Evans

Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion

  • Greg Prince on A Thoughtful Faith
  • Reflections on the New Zealand/Australia Special Conference: Finding Mormonism’s Thin Places, by Gina Colvin
  • Conditional Love Is Back, by Dave Banack
  • “God Wouldn’t Do That”, by Lynette

Best Podcast Episode

  • Mormon Stories: 650-652, One Ordinary Family’s Extraordinary Mormon Transition
  • Mormon Stories 664: The Excommunication of Amy and Jake Malouf Pt. 2 – The Verdict
  • Project Zion 54: Nancy Ross’ journey from Ordain Women to Community of Christ
  • Best Podcast Episode: Faith Transitions 16: Brittanny Mangelson
  • Bill Reel Mormon Discussions #244 Why They Leave
  • Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson gave a half-day lecture with the goal of explaining mormonism to evangelical Christians.

Best Short Media Presentation This category needs at least one more nomination in order to be included in the awards phase.

  • TEDx: Religion and Curiosity by Zachary Lien
  • Bill McKeever on the street at the Manti Mormon Miracle Pageant discussing mormon doctrine with mormon youth.

Please post your nominations as comments to this thread (although I will probably find them if you leave them on one of the other nomination threads). Remember to always post links to the works you nominate, otherwise it is often difficult for me to find them.

To keep your comment from getting caught in the spam filter, please only post two or three nominations per comment. If your comment doesn’t appear, email me: chanson dot exemormon at gmail dot com. Even if you have already posted nominations, feel free to post more, in accordance with the guidelines posted here.

I have consolidated and split some categories based the number of pieces of different types that got nominated — but keep in mind that it’s not too late to propose a new category if you do it right away. Also note that if you’ve been nominated, but your category has fewer than three nominees, it’s in your interest to nominate some of your colleagues/competitors so the category can be included in the awards phase. 😉

If you see any errors in the above, please leave a comment.

Thanks to everyone who has participated so far!!

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Comments (9)

  1. Julie says:
    January 8, 2017 at 2:09 pm

    Best Short Media Presentation:

    Bryce Blankenagel, Seattle Sunstone, “Martin Harris: Forgotten Hero of Mormonism”
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu08PNbWGzc

  2. 4blockhead says:
    January 11, 2017 at 8:08 am

    Best LDS-Interest Book (General non-fiction) : Secret Combinations: Evidence of Early Mormon Counterfeiting by Kathleen Kimball Melonakos

    Best LDS-Interest Book (General non-fiction) : From Mormon To Mermaid: One Woman’s Voyage From Oppression To Freedom by Lorelei Kay

  3. 4blockhead says:
    January 11, 2017 at 10:53 am

    Best Original Research Regarding Mormonism : Don Bradley’s presentation at 2016 MHA discussing whether there is a basis in fact for period anti-mormon literature, especially “The Fate of Madame La Tour.”

  4. jon Streeter says:
    January 13, 2017 at 8:47 am

    been a slow year – but here are my submissions

    Parody:

    Baby it’s Bigamy (polygamy) – http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/baby-its-bigamy-polygamy/

    Scripture study piece:
    Christ: New Testament Compared to Book of Mormon
    – http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/christ-new-testament-compared-to-book-of-mormon/

    History Discussion:
    What South Park Got Wrong About Mormons! – http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/what-south-park-got-wrong-about-mormons/

    Insightful commentary:

    Flip the Script: The How and Why of Jeremy Runnells’ Exit
    – http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/flip-the-script-the-how-and-why-of-jeremy-runnells-exit/

    Faithful piece by an exmormon:

    Video rendition of “Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo” essay – http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/video-plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo/

    blog:

    thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com

  5. jon Streeter says:
    January 13, 2017 at 8:55 am

    also –

    podcast episode:

    Undue Influence in General Conference – Luna Lindsey “Behold thy Mother”
    http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/undue-influence-in-general-conference-behold-thy-mother/

  6. MB says:
    January 13, 2017 at 9:22 am

    Where could Weather from IoT’s rendition of Creep fit in here? It needs a Brodie.

  7. 4blockhead says:
    January 13, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    Most Poignant Personal Story: The question I asked myself right before I got married. by Heather_ME

    Most Poignant Personal Story: I said my goodbyes by itwasfanniealger

  8. chanson says:
    January 15, 2017 at 5:02 am

    Thanks for the submissions!

    According to the guidelines, we request that each nominator nominate no more than two pieces by any one artist/author, but I guess it’s OK…

  9. 4blockhead says:
    January 19, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    Best Response to Apologetics: Updating the five key points of Latter Day Saint testimony by 4blockhead

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