Sorry, one last round for Brodies nominations….

OK, folks, I wanted to have the polls up today, but I ran into a bit of a glitch: Two people nominated The War Goes On, by Clarence Tong, as best poem, but…. I don’t have a third poem nomination to make this category viable. And I don’t want to just grab whatever random thing at the last minute — there’s got to be at least one more LDS interest poem published in 2017 that deserves to be nominated! So you have one more week for nominations, and I’d like to see some poetry. 😀

Here are the nominations as they stand. Please comment if anything is missing or if you have corrections. I will probably split up some of the larger categories when making the polls, but here’s what we have so far:

Year-long awards for people and groups:

Best New Blog/Channel/Podcast

• Mormon Happy Hour
• missed in Sunday school, by Craig Stapley
• My Mormon Experience by Ethan Dodge
• No Man Knows My Herstory
• My Story to Write
• Radio Free Mormon
• Brandon’s Travel Tips

Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast

• Infants on Thrones
• The Sunday Pews
• The Beehive Bugle
• Zelph on the Shelf

Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast

• Year of Polygamy
• Thoughts on Things and Stuff
• Naked Mormonism

Best LDS-Church-Info Site

• MormonLeaks
• Mormonism 101
• MormonThink

Best LDS-interest Discussion Forum

• Thoughtful Transitions FB group
• Millennial Mormonism FB group
• r/mormon
• r/exmormon
• r/MormonDoctrine

Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor

• u/invisibles_cubit
• u/relevantlife
• u/Chino_Blanco
• u/missedinsunday
• u/bwv549

Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog

• Tocubit is Invisible’s Cubit, by Sam Young
• This category needs more nominations.

Awards for Individual Works:

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)

• Through his Eyes and Lies, by C. L. Jackson
• The Book of Laman, by Mette Ivie Harrison
• Behind the Bishop’s Door, by Johnny Townsend

Best LDS-Interest Book (General non-fiction)

• Michael Quinn’s Mormon Hierarchy: wealth and corporate power
• This category needs more nominations.

Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction)

• Truth in Reason, by Nikolas Rex
• You’re Not Alone: Exit Journeys of Former Mormons, by Jessica Bradshaw
• This category needs more nominations.

Best LDS-Interest Song

• Tapirback Rider, by Weird Alma
• Mother where art thou, by Julie de Azevedo
• This category needs more nominations.

Best Poem

• “My friend’s poem” (Anonymous)
• The War Goes On, by Clarence Tong
• This category needs more nominations.

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image

• perfect juxtaposition: Anything Presidential to confess, by Pat Bagley
• house of cards, by Reddit user 4blockhead
• Mormon Merit Badges
• Sister Jones and Six Men
• The Mormon Version of the Golden Calf
• Mormonism is anti-me, by Missed In Sunday

Best Post Title

• Rocky Mountain Low, by Jack Naneek
• How to Fix Your Sunday School Class Using These Three Easy Tricks, by Stephen Carter
• Out of the Frying Pan of a Closet and Into the Fire: Bobby Flay Made My Cousin Gay!*, by AlexisAR

Funniest Humor Piece

• Letter From Mormon Missionary Puts the Recent Push for More Transparency on Display, by Ryan McKnight
• Mormons name their kids the darnedest things: Born in 2016 edition, by Jessie Jensen
• Evil Apostate Series, by Thoughts on Things and Stuff
• God Steps Down Amid Sexual Assault Allegations, by Tanner Gilliland

Funniest Parody

• Infant General Conference – Oct 2017
• New Gospel Topics Essay, by Moss
• “MR. HERBERT, TEAR DOWN THIS CURTAIN!” PROCLAIMS AN EMBOLDENED SENATOR DABAKIS
• Straight Outta Cumorah, by Weird Alma

Best Metaphor/Analogy/Allegory

• Parable of the Prodigal Daughter, by Chiaroscuro
• Mormon McDonald’s: An Allegory, by Gina Colvin
• The Church used my body as currency, Reddit user sarahprat

Best From the Pulpit Sermon

• Savannah’s Testimony
• Three Sisters, by Dieter Uchtdorf
• Act of Confession by Reverend Jerrod Lowry (in unison with the assembled pastorate) at the Utah Pride Interfaith Service in Salt Lake City on June 1

Most Poignant Personal Story

• The Mexican Kids in the Trash Pile, by Dan Pearce
• “Cabaret” and a Confused Teenage Boy, by Joseph Broom
• My Sorrow, by Brooke W
• Dear Elder Oaks, by Blaire Ostler
• Mike Norton

Best Exit Story

• an email to her bishop rejects any and all callings because representing the church in any capacity would compromise her integrity, by Reddit user PlanitL
• Breaking the Silence, by Royleane Otteson
• Moving On, by Bethany Jane
• The view from inside the bubble, by Heather B. Armstrong
• On Mormonism, authenticity, and spiritual epiphanies in Sin City, by the Narrator

Best Life Journey Piece

• A Sunday in the life of a closeted exmormon, by Reddit user my_name_is_NO
• Stepping Out of the Big Tent: The Possibility of Leaving Mormonism, by Lynette
• Inoculation and Echo Chambers, by Andrew S
• “You Lost Me”, by hawkgrrrl
• Leaving, by Tracy M.
• A quarter of a century ago, by Jana Remy
• I Will Not Go Back in the Closet, by Ben
• Pioneers, by Myrtlejoy
• What should an Active Mormon consider when encountering ex-Mormons or anti-Mormon sites/literature? by Dan Deceuster

Best Activist/Activtist Movement Within Mormonism

• Protect the Children Petition by Sam Young
• Ordain Women
• Free BYU
• Deb Diener of Children Matter FB Page (who compiled a huge list of instances of Child Sexual Abuse perpetrated by LDS members)

Best Leak or Personal Recording

• Anonymous via MormonLeaks GA pay information
• Anonymous via MormonLeaks PowerPoint “Enemies List”
• Savannah’s Testimony originally released by NewNameNoah
• Trevor Haugen recording with Don Clark (Q70) and Matt Growe (church historian), originally released on Mormon Stories Podcast

Best LDS Church Watch Piece

• Face2Face: About Prayer, by Thinker of Thoughts
• Fact vs. Fiction: Pioneer John Rowe Moyle and His Wooden Leg, by Mary Ann
• I Can’t Unsee It, by Leah Marie
• Did Joy D. Jones really just use the words “Mother in Heaven” in a General Conference session?, by Libby
• Eclipsing the Truth, by Alex
• Happy 12th Birthday! Now, Let Me Ask…. by Sam Young

Best Response to Apologetics

• They Can Leave the Church, But They Can’t Leave the Church Alone, by BrynneGant
• Debunking uniqueness of NHM on the Arabian peninsula, by Reddit user KenjaTime_
• Five Myths about Mormons and Money, by Mormonism 101
• Correlation Kettle Meet Snuffer Pot, by Mogget
• Problematic Apologetics: A Response to the “Lengthening Shadow” Interpreter Article, by Mary Ann
• The Boy Who Cried Religious Freedom, by Sam Brunson
• Response to 3Mormons on Race in Mormonism, by Thoughts on Things and Stuff
• Lamanite DNA, by The Mormon Informant
• Commentary: The gaslighting within Mormonism must stop, by Ryan McKnight and Ethan Dodge
• Zelph on the Shelf responds to the article “Alarming Truth Behind Anti Mormons”

Best LDS-Culture Piece

• The Ignorance of Defensive Mormons, by Donna Banta
• Caffeine and the Hedge around the Law, by Michael Austin
• Being esteemed as filthiness: What Not to Wear, by Rebecca J
• A Thought about Faith-promoting Stories, by Ziff
• Practical Apologetics: What’s Wrong With You? by Dave Banack
• The Mormon temple wedding photo game, by Mette Harrison
• I have a porn problem, by the Mighty Tapir
• Surviving Sacrament Meeting, by Terresa Wellborn
• Great Expectations, by Myrtlejoy
• 178 & 179: The Truths About Marital Intimacy: A Critique of Wendy Nelson’s Sex Talk: Helfer-Parker and de Azevedo-Hanks

Best History Piece

• How Jesus Christ Was Ousted As Head Of The Church of Jesus Christ, by Alan Rock Waterman
• Origin of the Baptism for the Dead Doctrine, by grindæl
• Coffee, by Kevin Barney
• Undeniable proof that the Journal of Discourses (JoD) was/is an official church publication, by Gileriodekel
• How ideas in the Book of Mormon parallel ideas from the nineteenth century, by Reddit user bwv549
• an Official LDS essay relies on an interesting historical article from 1831, by Reddit user anyonehaveanswers

Best Scripture Study Piece

• Ether 15: The End of the World As We Know It, by Alex
• The Isaiah Nephi Could Not Have Known: A Response to Dr. Kent Jackson, by Yakov Ben Tov
• The BoM and the Aeneid, by Kevin Barney
• The Day They Came, by Morgan Deane
• Grab that Rod of Iron! by Adult Onset Atheist
• Viewpoint on Mormonism: The Book of Galatians, by Mormonism Research Ministry, Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson

Best Discussion on Parenting

• Taking Back My Power, by Dad’s Primal Scream
• The F-Word that Really Harms Our Kids, by BrynneGant
• New Order Mormons, do you enforce that your children attend church, and only at the Brighamite ward?, by Reddit user 4blockhead
• Advice about sex for a college-bound girl, by Gabrielle Blair

Best Discussion on Orientation

• Forced to Look at Our Straight Privilege, by Natasha Helfer Parker
• White Shirt, Black Name Tag, Big Secret, by Ellis Jeter
• McMurrin Lecture: Science vs. Dogma, by Gregory Prince

Best Discussion on Gender

• The Inadvertent Objectification of Women in the Church, by Amber Haslam
• Who wants your old boys’ club, anyway? by Libby
• Cheating LDS Young Women – Again, by Gina Colvin
• Q&A: Why aren’t Mormon feminists thrilled with the new LDS temple baptistry policy? by April Young Bennett
• Modesty as a Matter of Life and Death, by Mormon Heretic
• If Gender is Essential, Why Are We Pushing It?, by hawkgrrrl
• John Dehlin and the women problem, by DearJohnDehlin
• I am not a Mother, by Petra
• Evangelical Notions About Women, by Andrew Hackman

Best Discussion on Race

• Response to 3 Mormons on Race
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Racism, by Sam Young
• Eliminating Any Lingering Disapproval Of Interracial Marriage, by Carolyn
• Facing our Racial History, by Jason L
• Racism in the Book of Mormon — Yep, it’s there, by Miguel Barker-Valdez
• The Excommunication of Ayla Stewart, by Adult Onset Atheist
• We’re Losing Our Racial Purity!, by AlexisAR

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS

• Face2Face series, by Thinker of Thoughts
• A Post-Mormon Documents some Recent Positive Changes in Mormonism, by William Kempton
• Responsible FAP, by Adult Onset Atheist
• What Does the CoJCoL-dS Offer? by chanson
• It is a Festivus for the rest of us… by David Johnson
• Credit, Blame, and the Influence of the Church, by Lynette

Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion

• Fasting for God… by Knotty
• God Didn’t Do This To Me. by Brooke W
• The Theology of the Proclamation, by Thomas Montgomery
• What’s a Prophet For, Anyway?, by Samantha Shelley
• What we know about Heavenly Mother, by Dani Addante
• the LDS Doctrine of families being “together forever.” by Cinepro

Best short media presentation

• Bryce Blankenagel and Cody Noconi, Sunstone Symposium, Revelation Through Hallucination
• MormonLeaks – Transparency and Ethics in the 21st Century, by Ryan McKnight
• Donovan Feist’s remarks at the resignation rally in Salt Lake City in November, by Donovan Feist
• commentary on BBC’s 2012 interview with apostle Jeffrey Holland, by Reddit user bomonomo, blogger “Thinker of Thoughts”
• Reading Greg Trimble: You Should Not Leave Mormonism For Any Of These 5 Reasons, by Zelph on the Shelf
• Way of the Mister: Steel Swords and Burning Bosoms, by Brian Dalton
• Henry Eyring – Masterclass in Emotional Manipulation

Best Podcast Episode

• The Backdrop and Context of The Family A Proclamation to the World
• Steve Shields, by Project Zion Podcast, Josh Mangelson interviewer
• Year of Polygamy, Episode 139, Dispelling the idea that Joseph Smith fought polygamy, by Lindsay Hansen Park with John Dinger, Bryan Buchanan, and John Hatch
• Best Podcast Episode: Who is Denver Snuffer?, by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson, Mormonism Research Ministry
• at the Salt Lake City Public Library, Peggy Fletcher Stack reflects on 26 Years on the Faith BeatMormon Land, Jennifer Napier-Pearce interviewer

Best Book Review

• Knotty’s review of “The Gate and The Garden: The Apostate Journals of a Gay Mormon Missionary in Japan”
• Inside the mind of the Book of Mormon’s first antagonist, by David Evans
• Alliegator’s review of “That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith & Family”
• A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Two LDS Romance Reviews, by Donna Banta
• 6 Must-Read Books for Ex-Mormons, by Samantha Shelley
• Introducing Singing and Dancing to the Book of Mormon: Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical, by Jerry Argetsinger
• Nancy Hales review of the Garden of Enid

How to nominate: Just post your nominations as comment to this thread, but please include links to the works you nominate. It’s best to post one nomination per comment — to avoid your nomination ending up in the spam filter — but 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.

And don’t forget 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 February 3, 2018.

Thanks again for all of your nominations!!