Phase II of Brodie Awards Nominations!!

by chanson · January 8, 2017

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).

Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast

Best Scripture Study Blog/Channel/Podcast

Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast

Best LDS-Church-Info Site

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

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

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.

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

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

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!!

chanson

C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! Follow me on mastadon at @chanson@social.linux.pizza or see "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!