Collecting nominations for the 2017 Brodie Awards!!!

2017-Brodies-200px The nomination process for X-Mormon of the Year is underway — please be sure to get in your nominations before next weekend when the voting begins.

Now, it’s also time to start on the Brodie Awards!! The Brodie Awards are a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra recognition and signal boost to the best LDS-interest content published/posted during the past year. This is your opportunity to review your favorite pieces, find out about great works you may have missed, and even promote your own work!

As usual, I will start by posting a list of suggested categories (from last year), but the precise list of award categories depends on your suggestions. Please feel free to browse the sidebar for ideas on award categories we’ve used in the past for ideas. Below the suggested categories, I will post the nomination guidelines.

Year-long awards for people and groups:

  • Best New Blog/Channel/Podcast
  • 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
  • Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor
  • Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog

Awards for Individual Works:

  • Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)
  • Best LDS-Interest Book (General non-fiction)
  • Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction)
  • Best LDS-Interest Song
  • Best Poem
  • Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image
  • Best Mormon-Themed Meme
  • Best Post Title
  • Funniest Humor Piece
  • Funniest Parody
  • Best Metaphor/Analogy/Allegory
  • Best From the Pulpit Sermon
  • Most Poignant Personal Story
  • Best Exit Story
  • Best Original Research Regarding Mormonism
  • Best Leak or Personal Recording
  • Best LDS Church Watch Piece
  • Best Response to Apologetics
  • Best LDS-Culture Piece
  • Best History Piece
  • Best Scripture Study Piece
  • Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS
  • Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion
  • Best Podcast Episode
  • Best Short Media Presentation

And here are the nomination guidelines:

  • Please nominate as many people, books, blogs, sites, podcasts, songs, articles, images, etc. as you want. However, please do not nominate more than two individual works by any one author/artist.
  • You are encouraged to nominate your own works. No one knows better than you do which pieces were your best. No more than two, though.
  • Please nominate works that first appeared during 2017.
  • Please try to nominate people and works that have some connection with Mormonism (eg. either the work touches on Mormonism, or the author is a current or former Mormon and/or is an active participant in our community).
  • A category must have at least three nominations in order to be included in the voting and awards phase.
  • You may suggest your own categories — however please do it as early as possible in the nominations process, to give others plenty of time to add nominations in your proposed categories.
  • Any other proposed changes to the categories or to the guidelines are welcome — feel free to discuss it in the comments.
  • The nominations will be open until mid-January, 2018, depending on my schedule. I will finalize the dates and categories and add my own nominations a few days before the nominations close and voting begins.

How to nominate: Just post your nominations as comment to this thread, but please include links to the works you nominate. If your nomination comment ends up in the spam filter, please email me (chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com) and I will fish it out.

I can’t wait to review all of the best works from 2017!!!

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!!

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13 Responses

  1. PrivacyPPratt says:

    BEST NEW BLOG/CHANNEL/PODCAST
    My Mormon Experience by Ethan Dodge:
    https://egd.io/my-mormon-experience

    MormonLeaks:
    https://mormonleaks.io
    (Or perhaps a better fit for BEST LDS-CHURCH-INFO SITE? Not sure. Site launched in December of 2016, but nothing was release via the site until January 2017.)

    BEST MORMON HISTORY BLOG/CHANNEL/PODCAST
    Naked Mormonism

    BEST LDS-INTEREST DISCUSSION FORUM
    Thoughtful Transitions FB group
    Millennial Mormonism FB group
    r/mormon
    r/exmormon

    BEST EXMORMON REDDIT CONTRIBUTOR
    u/invisibles_cubit
    u/relevantlife

    BEST LDS-INTEREST SONG:
    Tapirback Rider by Weird Alma:
    https://weirdalma.bandcamp.com/track/tapirback-rider

    BEST MORMON-THEMED MEME
    Mormonism is anti-me by Missed In Sunday:
    https://i.redd.it/l8xojerltxjz.jpg

    FUNNIEST HUMOR PIECE
    Evil Apostate Series by Thoughts on Things and Stuff:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muFaCJtJW2M&list=PLevx2DAlF-YBJEmXkCewG8VBx4C9nfS2s

    God Steps Down Amid Sexual Assault Allegations by Tanner Gilliland:
    http://zelphontheshelf.com/god-steps-down-amid-sexual-assault-allegations/

    FUNNIEST PARODY
    Straight Outta Cumorah by Weird Alma:
    https://weirdalma.bandcamp.com/album/straight-outta-cumorah

    BEST FROM THE PULPIT SERMON
    Savannah’s Testimony:
    https://mormonleaks.io/wiki/index.php?title=File:Savannah%27s_FULL_testimony-2017-05-7.mp4

    BEST RESPONSE TO APOLOGETICS
    Response to 3Mormons on Race in Mormonism by Thoughts on Things and Stuff:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c6gY7QfT8k

    Lamanite DNA by The Mormon Informant:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnzZKoMKxU8

    Commentary: The gaslighting within Mormonism must stop by Ryan McKnight and Ethan Dodge:
    http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2017/11/26/commentary-the-gaslighting-within-mormonism-must-stop/

    BEST LEAK
    Anonymous via MormonLeaks GA pay information:
    https://mormonleaks.io/newsroom/2017/01/09/mormonleaks-releases-four-documents/

    Anonymous via MormonLeaks PowerPoint “Enemies List”:
    https://mormonleaks.io/wiki/documents/5/51/Area_Business_Weekends.pdf

    BEST PERSONAL RECORDING
    Savannah’s Testimony originally released by NewNameNoah:
    https://mormonleaks.io/wiki/index.php?title=File:Savannah%27s_FULL_testimony-2017-05-7.mp4

    Trevor Haugen recording with Don Clark (Q70) and Matt Growe (church historian) originally released on Mormon Stories Podcast:
    https://mormonleaks.io/wiki/index.php?title=File:Trevor_Haugen_Meeting_With_Elder_Clarke_Matt_Growe.mp3

    I also propose a new category:
    BEST ACTIVIST MOVEMENT WITHIN MORMONISM
    Protect the Children Petition by Sam Young

  2. PrivacyPPratt says:

    Oh I thought I had included this one too:

    BEST NEW BLOG/CHANNEL/PODCAST
    No Man Knows My Herstory
    https://www.nomanknowsmyherstory.com/

  3. chanson says:

    Looks like a great first batch! Thanks @PPratt!

  4. Cindy says:

    Radio Free Mormon podcast which is hosted by Bill Reel on Mormon Discussion Podcast. Best new podcast
    http://www.mormondiscussionpodcast.org/2017/08/radio-free-mormon-016-make-way-dodos/

  5. Julie says:

    Best Humor Piece:
    Weird Alma: straight outta Cumorah

    Best LDS interest book (non fiction)
    Michael Quinn’s Mormon Hierarchy: wealth and corporate power

    Best short media presentation:
    Bryce Blankenagel and Cody Noconi, Sunstone Symposium, Revelation Through Hallucination https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t9OCSkqec5A

    Most Poignant Personal Story: Mike Norton on Mormon Stories
    http://www.mormonstories.org/mike-norton/

  6. Julie says:

    Best Response to Apologetics: Zelph on the Shelf responds to the article “Alarming Truth Behind Anti Mormons” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MC361OfvEN4

  7. Best NEW podcast: Mormon Happy Hour.

    Angelsonfire.org

  8. Jenny Payne says:

    Their witty and fun

  9. Aaron Dietz says:

    Best NEW podcast: Mormon Happy Hour.

    http://angelsonfire.org/

  10. Best Poem:
    The War Goes On
    by Clarence Tong

    in responce to the April Ensign with the same title
    http://thewar-goes-on.com/

  11. Nominating Anna LeBaron author of The Polygamists Daughe
    Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction

    Release March 2017
    http://annalebaron.com/

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