Thanks for all of the great nominations so far!! I haven’t added my own nominations yet, but I plan to do so this weekend, and then I’ll make the polls. So you have one more week (from this posting) to nominate and then two weeks to vote.
It would appear that the most hotly-contested race this year will be for “Best Podcast Episode” — with whole lists of episodes getting nominated per podcast!! It looks like people are maybe suggesting that each podcast should get its own category (eg. “Best Mormon Happy Hour Podcast Episode”, “Best Drunk Mormon Podcast Episode”). I could potentially do that if that’s what folks here want (feel free to discuss in the comments) — but I’d really prefer to keep the Brodies a little tiny bit competitive.
Here’s what I’d prefer to do: For each podcast, the podcaster can select (in the comments below) their best episode to go in the “Best Podcast Episode” category, and then we can move the others to the more specific categories based on the content (eg. humor, history, church watch, race/gender discussions, best title, etc.). Some of the specific categories haven’t gotten any nominations yet, but can still go to the voting phase if people nominate some pieces this week.
Here are the nominations so far:
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 2018 (or very late in 2017, eg. December).
Best Podcast
Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast
- Drunk Mormon Podcast
- Zelph on the Shelf
- This category needs one more nomination in order to go on to the voting phase
Best Mormon History Blog/Channel/Podcast
- Drunk Mormon Podcast
- This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase
Best Exmormon Reddit Contributor
- Stan Way “Faithful TBM”
- This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase
Other potential categories that could use nominations: Best LDS-Church-Info Site, Best LDS-interest Discussion Forum
Awards for Individual Works:
Best Podcast Episode
- Radio Free Mormon: General Conference Death March
- MHH32: An Evening with the Drunk Mormon Podcast
- Bill Reel, Mormon Discussions: Elder Holland, Liar Liar Pants on Fire
- The Drunk Mormon Podcast: Joseph Smith: Egyptologist
- The Drunk Mormon Podcast: We Know Who Bigfoot Is
- The Drunk Mormon Podcast: The Frickin’ Golden Plates!!
- Mormon Happy Hour: Sam Young Reacts to Episode of This American Life
- Mormon Happy Hour: Interview with NewNameNoah Mike Norton on his Arrest for Trespassing LDS Temple
- Mormon Happy Hour: Interview with Sam Young after 23 Day Hunger Strike
- Mormon Happy Hour: Mormon Sexual Trauma Dumpster Fire
- Mormon Happy Hour: Soaking is Fundamental
- Mormon Happy Hour: Interview with Gina Colvin and Natasha Helfer Parker
- Mormon Happy Hour: Queer Polygamy with Blaire Ostler
- Mormon Happy Hour: An Evening with the Drunk Mormon Podcast
- I’d really like to split this category up, as described above.
Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)
- Mormon Erotica, by Donna Banta
- This category needs two more nominations, otherwise it will be merged with the “Best LDS-Interest Book (non-fiction)” category.
Best LDS-Interest Book (non-fiction)
- Educated,
by Tara Westover - This category needs two more nominations, otherwise it will be merged with the “Best LDS-Interest Book (fiction)” category.
Best LDS-Interest Song
- Theme song to “Drunk Mormon Podcast”
- This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase
Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image
- Cosmomormon, Volume 1, Issue 5 by Reddit user CosmoMormonMagazine
- Pat Bagley: Buyer Beware
- This category needs one more nomination in order to go on to the voting phase
Funniest Humor Piece or Parody
- Zelph on the Shelf, Mormon-forcement Pornography
- Cosmomormon Magazine, issue 5
- This category needs one more nomination in order to go on to the voting phase
Most Poignant Personal Story
- Educated,
by Tara Westover - This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase
Best Life Journey Piece
- Project Zion Podcast: Royleane and Steve Otteson
- Episode 42: Happy birthday to Kelsae and a coming out story
- This category needs one more nomination in order to go on to the voting phase
Best Activist/Activtist Movement Within Mormonism
- Sam Young and Protect LDS Children
- This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase
Best Leak or Personal Recording
- McKenna Denson/Joseph Bishop interview
- This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase
Best LDS Church Watch Piece
- New York Times Obituary for Thomas Monson
- This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase
Best Op-Ed
- Fred Karger: Chenoweth should bow out of performance with Tabernacle Choir. in the Salt Lake Tribune
- This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase
Best Full-Length Media Presentation
- Church and State documentary film by Holly Tuckett and Kendall Wilcox
- This category needs two more nominations in order to go on to the voting phase
Here are some potential categories that haven’t gotten nominations yet:
- Best Post or Episode Title
- Best Exit Story
- Best Metaphor/Analogy/Allegory
- Best Poem
- Best From the Pulpit Sermon
- Best Response to Apologetics
- Best LDS-Culture Piece
- Best History Piece
- Best Scripture Study Piece
- Best Discussion on Parenting
- Best Discussion on Race/Gender/Orientation
- Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS
- Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion
- Best Short Media Presentation
- Best Book Review
For any category that has at least two nominations by January 27, 2019, I will either try to find an appropriate third nomination myself or I will merge it with another category so that reader nominations will not get lost. That said, it would be really nice if people who are following this could encourage their friends on social media to swing by and add their own nominations for the best LDS-interest content of 2018. 😀
You have missed several nominations in this list. Please go back to your previous comments on the nom page and check this. Nearly all of Rational Faiths nominations are missing here as well as websites and other op Ed’s that were nominated.
Best Op Ed
Open letter to LDS Patriarchy
By Lesley Butterfield
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/14/commentary-an-open-letter-to-the-lds-patriarchy/
You missed 4 or 5 best op Ed nominations.
As others have said, some of the nominations are missing, including the Mormon Stories episode with Brooke and Josh Miller as a “Life Journey” nomination.
Your entries should be from post Mormons who have gotten over their anger and can put something out that is helpful.
Best History Podcast: Naked Mormonism
Funniest Humor Piece: Weird Alma, You Can’t Touch This (COB)
Hi Carole, I know there’s a lot to keep track of, and not enough time to do it. I did nominate two other op-eds from the Salt Lake Tribune in a comment on Jan 4, including links to both of them, if that helps the op-ed category. Thanks!
Thanks for all of the additional nominations and corrections!!
If anyone else sees nominations that are missing or any other errors, please tell me in the comments here. Also, there are probably additional nominations on the corresponding thread in the reddit r/exmormon — I want to include them, but I wasn’t able to find the thread again, even using the search. If anyone reading this knows where that reddit thread is and can post the link here, I would really appreciate it.
As always, if your nomination gets caught in the spam filter, please email me: chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com
And thanks for your participation in this fun event!
I’ll nominate “The Moat Around Zion” by Johnny Townsend for the LDS fiction category.–Unless there’s a category for short fiction collections this year.
@chanson: this is one reddit thread with nominations
I know it’s very poor etiquette to nominate something I worked on, but the webcomic “Love & Sects” is a nice, slow-burn meditation on how religion fucks with people. Chapters 9, 10, and 12 are the most relevant from 2018.
http://www.devinsunde.com/?comic=ch-09-full
http://www.devinsunde.com/?comic=ch-10-full
http://www.devinsunde.com/?comic=ch-12-1
From the pulpit sermon 3 nominations given:
Thomas Shaffer https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/9cg617/escorted_out_of_ft_meeting_today_video/
Best LDS Culture Piece
https://rationalfaiths.com/dear-progressive-mormon-man/
Best discussion on race, gender, orientation:
Mormon Women Speak, featuring Mica McGriggs, PhD and the Hushed Ones Documentarians
https://rationalfaiths.com/the-mormon-women-speak-podcast-the-erasure-of-black-women-in-sam-youngs-movement-a-discussion-about-the-documentary-the-hushed-onesepisode-10-294/
Best LDS culture piece: Why Its Not Helpful To Tell Me To Leave
https://rationalfaiths.com/why-it-is-not-helpful-to-tell-me-to-leave/
Best Blog Posts:
I nominated Jeremy Runnels and Johnny Stephenson for the “Irrational World of Brian Hales’ Polygamy.”
https://mormonitemusings.com/2018/08/27/the-irrational-world-of-brian-hales-polygamy-part-i/
And James Patterson for “A Signed Open Letter to John Dehlin”
https://rationalfaiths.com/a-signed-open-letter-to-john-dehlin-and-osf-release-your-former-employees-from-their-ndas/
@Devin Sunde — it is not at all bad etiquette to nominate your own work — it is actually recommended. See the guidelines at the bottom of the original post: http://mainstreetplaza.com/2019/01/02/collecting-nominations-for-the-2018-brodie-awards/
BTW, I’ve been following your comic — I think it’s great!
BTW, stay tuned — the last call for nominations (with the missing nominations restored) is almost ready to go!
Best lds culture piece
https://sistersquorum.com/2018/09/20/mormsogyny/
Best insightful commentary on tcojcols
https://sistersquorum.com/2018/10/15/yes-i-can-forgive/
Best commentary on tcljcols
https://sistersquorum.com/2018/04/13/the-wounded-women-of-polygamy-culture/
Funniest humor piece
https://sistersquorum.com/2018/12/14/shadowleaks-discovers-a-modest-is-hottest-proposal/
Funniest humor piece
https://sistersquorum.com/2018/06/29/shadowleaks-releases-lds-churchs-sacred-memos/