Time to vote for the 2017 Brodie Awards!!!

Yay, it’s time to vote!!! Thanks for all of the great nominations — we have got a great crop this year!! And I thought it was going to be a slow year! Thanks especially to all of those who indulged my last-minute request for poems!

Year-long awards for people and groups:

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast

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

Brodies 2017: Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast

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

Brodies 2017: Best LDS-Church-Info Site

• MormonLeaks
• Mormonism 101
• MormonThink

Brodies 2017: Best LDS-interest Discussion Forum

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

Brodies 2017: Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor

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

Awards for Individual Works:

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: Best LDS-Interest Book (non-fiction)

• Michael Quinn’s Mormon Hierarchy: wealth and corporate power
• Truth in Reason, by Nikolas Rex
• You’re Not Alone: Exit Journeys of Former Mormons, by Jessica Bradshaw

Brodies 2017: Best LDS-Interest Song

• Tapirback Rider, by Weird Alma
• Mother where art thou, by Julie de Azevedo
• I Know Where I’ve Been, by Fantasia and Julie Maughan

Brodies 2017: Best Poem

• “My friend’s poem” (Anonymous)
• The War Goes On, by Clarence Tong
• Aftermath, by Leah Elliot
• Home No More, by /FaithfulTBM

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: Best Post Title

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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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
• A Den of Thieves: The LDS LGBTQ+ Story as Currency, by Nathan K.
• “It’s the only way”, by Thinker of thoughts

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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)

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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”

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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
• Mormonism reflects on the aftermath, by Thinker of thoughts

Brodies 2017: 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
• Undue influence in general conference: obedience by Luna Lindsey and Jonathan Streeter

Brodies 2017: 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

Brodies 2017: 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
• 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

Brodies 2017: 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

The polls will remain open for approximately two weeks. The polls will close on Saturday, February 17th, 2018, at 10a.m. (Switzerland time)