Here are the results:
Year-long awards for people and groups:
Best New Blog/Channel/Podcast: Mormon Censorship
Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast: Brother Jake
Best Scripture Study Blog/Channel/Podcast: My Book of Mormon Podcast
Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast: Naked Mormonism Podcast
Best LDS-Church-Info Site: MormonThink
Best LDS-interest Discussion Forum: r/exmormon/
Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor: u/fearlessfixxer
Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog or Podcast: Wheat & Tares
Awards for Individual Works:
Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction): Invasion of the Spirit Snatchers, by Johnny Townsend
Best LDS-Interest Book (General non-fiction): 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): Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History, by
Gregory A. Prince
Best LDS-Interest Song: Trash, by Tyler Glenn
Best Poem: Junebug, by Leia
Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image: Pat Bagley: on reporting rape at BYU
Best Mormon-Themed Meme: Where Will You Go? – Artistic Edition, by Steve Otteson
Best Post Title: Pussy Grabbernacle Choir Begins Telestial Outreach Tour, by Timothy McFoster
Funniest Humor Piece: Elder Holland Furious over Apostate Flapdoodles, by Mahonri Smith
Funniest Parody: Brother Joseph, by Brother Jake
Best Metaphor/Analogy/Allegory: Top 10 ways the church is like North Korea, by Mormon Expression Podcast
Best From the Pulpit Sermon: Tad Callister
Most Poignant Personal Story: Naked Mormonism Podcast – “CC – Norma” (after episode 41)
Best Exit Story: Tyler Glenn on Mormon Stories
Best Original Research Regarding Mormonism: Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis, by Benjamin Knoll
Best Leak or Personal Recording: Leaked conversation with the brethren and former Oregon Senator, Gordon Smith, by anonymous via Ryan McKnight
Best LDS Church Watch Piece: News of BYU Rape Policies are Triggering Me…, by Natasha Helfer Parker
Best Response to Apologetics: The Dominant Narrative Is Not True, by Bill Reel
Best LDS-Culture Piece: Challenging the “Addiction” Paradigm with Regard to Pornography, by Mormon Matters Podcast
Best History Piece: Mark Hoffman Series on Naked Mormonism Podcast (after Spec Ed 28)
Best Scripture Study Piece: 3 Nephi 19: In Which Jesus is Terrible at his Job, by Alex
Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS: Malcom Gladwell, Elder Holland and the Legitimacy of Authority, by James Patterson
Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion:Reflections on the New Zealand/Australia Special Conference: Finding Mormonism’s Thin Places, by Gina Colvin
Best Podcast Episode: Mormon Stories: 650-652, One Ordinary Family’s Extraordinary Mormon Transition
Best Short Media Presentation: Sidney Rigdon: Forgotten Hero of Mormonism, by Bryce Blankenagel, Seattle Sunstone
And here are this year’s award buttons! If you are a winner, please feel free to copy these graphics and display them on your site:
If you would like to see the results of the voting, the completed polls (and the lists of nominees) are here.
Congratulations to 2016’s winners and to everyone who participated!!