Last Call for 2019 Brodies Nominations!!

The Brodie Awards nominations are well underway — thanks to everyone who has nominated so far for the fantastic nominations!!!

Here’s the first pass on organising all of the nominations into categories. As usual, I have moved some nominations around in order to try to keep the various races around the same size and to try to spread out each individual author/artist’s works to avoid having two works by the same author competing in the same category. (Additionally, I love adding and refining categories, but I didn’t include the suggested “Best Critical Analysis” because I wanted to group the all the nominations that were specifically analysis of scripture and history. Feel free to discuss in the comments.)

If you object to any of the classifications, or if you see any errors, or if any of your nominations are missing from this list, please leave a comment about it or email me at chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com.

The 2019 Brodie Awards nominations phase will continue until Saturday, January 25, 2020 (or maybe the following week, depending on my schedule). Here’s what we have so far. Please add further nominations in the comments.

Year-long awards for people and groups:
Best New Podcast/Blog/Channel/Site

• And It Came To Sass: The Most Correct Of Any Podcast On Earth
• Mormon Sabbatical
• GreatAndSpacious.com

Best Podcast

• Not So Molly-Mormon Podcast
• This category needs at least two more nominations in order to be included.

Best Humor Site/Channel/Podcast

• Brigham’s Dank Meme Stash
• This category needs at least two more nominations in order to be included.

Awards for Individual Works:
Best LDS-Interest Song

• Rabbit Hole, by Mindy Gledhill
• Do Some Good, by Weird Alma the Younger
• This category needs at least one more nomination in order to be included.

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image

• Conversion Therapy, by Pat Bagley
• Mormon Wedding Receptions Be Like, by Brigham’s Dank Meme Stash
• This category needs at least one more nomination in order to be included.

Best Humor Piece or Parody

• “Gaslighting”, by Weird Alma
• This category needs at least two more nominations in order to be included.

Most Poignant Personal Story

• Jeremy Runnells’s stake president’s kid (Can I get a link for this one? I wasn’t able to find it.)
• This category needs at least one more nomination in order to be included.

Best Life Journey Piece

• Brittany Mangelson, by Project Zion Podcast
• A look at professional perceptions before and after leaving mormonism, by reddit user reddolfo
• This category needs at least one more nomination in order to be included.

Best Analysis of Scripture and/or History

• Nancy Rigdon & the Happiness Letter, by Thinker of Thoughts
• Rewriting Eden With The Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America, by Colby Townsend
• 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
• Truth of the Book of Abraham 8 part video series, by Dan Vogel
• The Book of Mormon’s dependence on the KJV, by ImTheMarmotKing
• Creativity Theory and the Origin of the Book of Mormon and other Mormon Scriptures, by frogontrombone
• (This category can potentially be split into separate categories for scripture vs. history if I get another nomination or two that clearly fit the “history” category.)

Best Activist Action or Movement Within Mormonism

• Protect LDS Children, organized by Sam Young
• This category needs at least two more nominations in order to be included.

Best Leak or Personal Recording

• Whistleblower report of the church’s $100 billion, by David Nielsen
• This category needs at least two more nominations in order to be included.

Best Watchdog Piece

• Letter to an IRS director, by Lars Nielsen
• This category needs at least two more nominations in order to be included.

Best Op-Ed

• LDS Church Officials Are Practicing Spiritual Extortion, by Lesley Butterfield
• The LDS Church Should Pay Off the Medical Debt of Its Members, by Johnny Townsend
• Stubborn, by Jana Reiss
• Are you willing to worship with your feet and walk out, by Patty Willis
• I ask for [the missionaries] address so I can go their house while they are relaxing and talk them into switching to my spirituality, by Jade Chun
• LDS Leaders Owe Repentance and Apology for Cruelty to LGBTQ People and Their Children, by Holly Welker

Best LDS-Culture Piece

• Delayed Adulthood, by Mette Harrison
• “My Apostate Live Tweet Sessions of General Conference”, by @GreatSpacious
• We [as mormons] can make the necessary adjustments to combat that climate change, by Johnny Townsend

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS

• president Nelson jumps the shark, by Radio Free Mormon
• A rebuttal to the Renlunds’ worldwide devotional featuring more boat metaphors, by Radio Free Mormon (a three part series)
• 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)
• Response to January 2019 Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults with Elder and Sister Renlund on Overcoming Doubts with Faith, by Fuzzy_Thoughts

Best Theological Discussion

• Street Epistemology: LDS Missionaries Meet Atheist, by Anthony Magnabosco
• On powers granted in Matthew 18 and extended in a mormon context via D&C 132, by reddit user 4blockhead
• Should health advice ever be elevated to a commandment in a Christian context? by Mormonism Research Ministry (a five part series)

Best Discussion on Sexuality

• A more effective approach to masturbation and pornography: for teens and adults, by Natasha Helfer Parker
• Mormon Sexual Trauma Dumpster Fire, with Lesley Butterfield
• Accurate understanding of sex is a basic right that all young people deserve, by Heather Scott

Best Discussion on Patriarchy

• Project Zion discusses patriarchal and power dynamics presented in the series, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
• Women’s Abuse, Oppression and Trauma Under the Patriarchy: Understanding and Healing the System, by Lesley Butterfield
• An Open Letter to the LDS Patriarchy, by ? (I can’t open the link — someone please tell me who the author is)

Again, thanks for all the fantastic nominations!! It is so fantastic to have this opportunity to see all of this great new content — I look forward to reading/listening to/checking out all of these pieces!!