Collecting Nominations for the 2019 Brodie Awards!!

43 thoughts on “Collecting Nominations for the 2019 Brodie Awards!!”

1. I would like to nominate Sam young. Sam was excommunicated from CoJCoLDS for speaking out about sexual abuse that has been repeatedly whitewashed and hidden by the church

2. Best OpEd: “LDS Church Officials Are Practicing Spiritual Extortion” by Lesley Butterfield

   https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/04/10/commentary-lds-church/

3. Best Op-ed nomination, “The LDS Church Should Pay Off the Medical Debt of Its Members,” published in the Salt Lake Tribune on November 2, 2019.

   https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/11/02/johnny-townsend-lds/

4. Most insightful commentary – president Nelson jumps the shark
   https://radiofreemormon.org/2019/04/radio-free-mormon-063-president-nelson-jumps-the-shark/

5. Mindy Gledhill for Best LDS-Interest Song with her album “Rabbit Hole”

6. Most Poignant Personal Story: Jeremy Runnells’s stake president’s kid

   Best Leak or Personal Recording: the $100 billion leak

7. https://player.fm/series/a-thoughtful-faith-mormon-lds-79857/ep-297-womens-abuse-oppression-and-trauma-under-the-lds-patriarchy-understanding-and-healing-the-system-lesley-butterfield

8. https://player.fm/series/mormon-happy-hour-podcast/mhh35-mormon-sexual-trauma-dumpster-fire-with-lesley-butterfield

9. https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/14/commentary-an-open-letter-to-the-lds-patriarchy/

10. Thanks for the great nominations!!! Keep ’em coming!!

    BTW, please include links to the works you’re nominating, and ideally a category you’re nominating the work in. 😀

11. Best LDS comic or Image: Conversion Therapy by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

12. Best Theological Discussion: Street Epistemology with 2 mormon missionaries, Part 1> by Anthony Magnabosco

13. Best Theological Discussion: Project Zion discusses patriarchal and power dynamics presented in the series, “The Handmaid’s Tale”

14. Nancy Rigdon and the Happiness Letter by Thinker of Thoughts

15. And it came to sass new podacst
    http://anditcametosass.libsyn.com/

16. Best new podcast Mormon Sabbatical https://mormonsabbatical.libsyn.com/

    Best Op-Ed: Jana Reiss https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/12/12/jana-riess-stubborn/

    Best LDS-Culture piece: Mette Harrison https://medium.com/@metteharrison/delayed-adulthood-8407a73f7e39

    Best Podcast: Not So Molly-Mormon Podcast https://soundcloud.com/user-984080218

17. Best Life Journey: Brittany Mangelson by Project Zion Podcast

18. Best Op-Ed: Patty Willis: Are you willing to worship with your feet and walk out.

19. Best Op-Ed: Jade Chun: I ask for [the missionaries] address so I can go their house while they are relaxing and talk them into switching to my spirituality.

20. Best Op-Ed: Johnny Townsend: We [as mormons] can make the necessary adjustments to combat that climate change.

21. Best Op-Ed: Heather Scott: Accurate understanding of sex is a basic right that all young people deserve defacto rebuttal to the LDS/Eagle Forum influence in Utah politics

22. Best Watchdog Piece: Lars Nielsen: Letter to an IRS director

23. Best History Piece – Rewriting Eden With The Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America by Colby Townsend

24. Best Discussion on Sexuality (slightly new topic): A more effective approach to masturbation and pornography: for teens and adults by Natasha Helfer Parker, interviewed by John Dehlin on Mormon Stories

25. Best Critical Analysis (suggested individual award topic): The Book of Mormon’s dependence on the KJV by ImTheMarmotKing

26. Two others for Best Critical Analysis (suggested individual award topic):

    Creativity Theory and the Origin of the Book of Mormon and other Mormon Scriptures by frogontrombone

    Response to January 2019 Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults with Elder and Sister Renlund on Overcoming Doubts with Faith

27. Response to January 2019 Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults with Elder and Sister Renlund on Overcoming Doubts with Faith is by Fuzzy_Thoughts

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28. Best Life Journey: A look at professional perceptions before and after leaving mormonism. by reddit user reddolfo

29. Best History Piece: John Hamer’s rebuttal that the only way that the Book of Mormon could have been created was through divine intervention. by Mormon Stories Podcast

30. Best History Piece: Truth of the Book of Abraham 8 part video series by Dan Vogel (begun in 2018 but completed in 2019)

31. Most Insightful Commentary: A rebuttal to the Renlunds’ worldwide devotional featuring more boat metaphors. by Radio Free Mormon, a three part series

32. Most Insightful Commentary: How does a revelation get reversed, especially considering Nelson’s 2016 speech declaring the November 2015 policy of exclusion a divine mandate? by Mormonism Research Ministry, a three part series

33. Most Insightful Commentary: Should health advice ever be elevated to a commandment in a Christian context? by Mormonism Research Ministry, a five part series

34. Best [Short] Theological Discussion: On powers granted in Matthew 18 and extended in a mormon context via D&C 132 by reddit user 4blockhead

35. I nominate myself for two works

    Best New Blog/Channel/Site – GreatAndSpacious.com has been revamped and is now more user friendly than ever. It is a resource for doubters to share with their loved ones in non-aggressive ways. It also doubles as a safe resource for believers to investigate some of the issues of their doubting friends or family member’s issues. I have announced my upcoming book, “Lone Will Be The Night” which is a guide on how to tell the most important people in your life that you’ve left the church. The book is coming April 2020 and will be free upon release.

    Best LDS-Culture Piece – My Apostate Live Tweet Sessions of General Conference. Every six months I subject myself to 10 hours of torment by listening to General Conference and live-tweeting my apostate’s commentary. This makes it so people can stay up with talks, quotes, and news without having to listen in themselves. I give suggestions on what talks people can say was their favorite if people ask, as well as give times where they can say, “I must have slept through that one.”

    Here are the highlights:
    https://imgur.com/a/v1P7PMM
    https://imgur.com/a/paYCG6y
    https://imgur.com/a/lYoJ1GA
    https://imgur.com/a/fLPsam6

36. Best LDS-Interest Book (fiction): “I Will, Through the Veil” by Johnny Townsend https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZGJNH4M/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1

37. Thanks everyone for all the great nominations!!

    A couple of nomination comments got stuck in the filter and I fished them out. If any of your nominations are still missing, please email me at chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com. Thanks!!

38. New podcast: and it came to sass: the most correct of any podcast on earth

39. FYC

    Parody: “Gaslighting” by Weird Alma
    https://weirdalma.bandcamp.com/track/gaslighting

    LDS interest song: “Do Some Good” by Weird Alma the Younger
    https://weirdalma.bandcamp.com/track/do-some-good

40. Best LDS interest comic or image: “Mormon Wedding Receptions Be Like” by Brigham’s Dank Meme Stash
    https://www.facebook.com/270030317098811/photos/a.270035963764913/316476282454214/?type=3&theater

    Best Site of Images/Memes/Comics: Brigham’s Dank Meme Stash
    https://www.facebook.com/Brigham-Youngs-Dank-Meme-Stash-270030317098811/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARATcu_0bxTAP-YKgmfVZrxgjDNsyyBR1TCDGMT0iGuhotItMww3wVbjwFrcxJAe_RfO_co04kqDyqJglumCiVh9eOB2_4E4i-Rz1ZKVpawUMS_qXmIlaq10iJXbCxZBAcKJ-5ImFNOO5damMB5diXCK77b8fPj798EqH4HA0j-OTdglLs07fbxGBkZnvXGHd0TNVNUKhUemM8X_gW_GzaPWGG9mXUbGSXh3mSAfnOjRUk-Fa6jVhZ-hRR1xHB19loVPHs_w6TgNMYkecxi286eFHpoD1MKjpYxwLEPlw36ViGNf7PtTEnWa7UORp07-20ZUGEqY1ImmRehU7v-vTlLGMw&__tn__=k*F&tn-str=k*F

41. Best Op-Ed: LDS Leaders Owe Repentance and Apology for Cruelty to LGBTQ People and Their Children by Holly Welker
    https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2019/04/08/lds-leaders-owe-repentance-and-apology-for-cruelty-to-lgbtq-people-and-their-children/?fbclid=IwAR1GvIqowTjfON-r4lgCO2xe1Vmgvb2QItZ1dCqjmssQYd-J51Bi43txsVg

42. https://rationalfaiths.com/dear-church-stop-preaching-forgiveness-without-teaching-boundaries/

    LDS culture piece or scripture study piece

43. Thanks for all of the fantastic nominations!!! I have just posted my initial roundup of the nominations so far. Please post further nominations here: https://mainstreetplaza.com/2020/01/18/last-call-for-2019-brodies-nominations/