*** EDIT: Due to technical and scheduling difficulties the voting will continue until Wednesday February 12th at 10am Switzerland time. Sorry for the delay! ***
The polls are ready!! Here’s where you vote for your favorite works of LDS-interest art, music, writing, and video of 2019!!
We have some really great entries here, so I hope you’ll take the time to read/view/listen to as many as possible — you won’t regret it!
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
- Ex-Mormon Book Club Podcast (Available on Anchor and Spotify)
- Radio Free Mormon
- Mormon Happy Hour
- Infants on Thrones
Awards for Individual Works:
Best LDS-Interest Song
- Rabbit Hole, by Mindy Gledhill
- Do Some Good, by Weird Alma the Younger
- Boo Hoo, by Mindy Gledhill
- God Help the Outcasts live performance by choir/soloists as part of the Interfaith Service as part of Utah Pride 2019
- M*rmon Story by Misplaced Faith
Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image
- Conversion Therapy, by Pat Bagley
- Mormon Wedding Receptions Be Like, by Brigham’s Dank Meme Stash
- Extortion for Exaltation, by reddit user missedinsundayschool (see also)
Best Humor Piece or Parody
- “Gaslighting”, by Weird Alma
- COSMOMORMON MAGAZINE, Vol 1, Issue 12, by reddit user CosmoMormonMagazine (see also)
- Bad Bible Stitches and Jessica’s Story, by Mormon Happy Hour Podcast
Best Life Journey Piece
- Brittany Mangelson, by Project Zion Podcast
- A look at professional perceptions before and after leaving mormonism, by reddit user reddolfo
- Katie and Allan Mount, by Mormon Stories Podcast
- The Lusk Family, by Mormon Stories Podcast
- Ex-Mormon Book Club Podcast Episode 1- Coffee in the Face of Shame with Anna
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
Best Activist Action or Movement Within Mormonism
- Protect LDS Children, organized by Sam Young
- Resilient Hope by Kathy Carlston
- Whistleblower report of the church’s $100 billion, by David Nielsen
- Letter to an IRS director, by Lars Nielsen
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. (see also)
- 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)
- Mormonism is White Supremacy by Brian Dalton, Way of the Mister episode
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
- Cast/Director/Playwright of The Cake discuss the production at Salt Lake Acting Company, by Radio West
- Should students in Utah sex-ed classrooms be allowed to ask off the cuff questions about sexuality? by Radio West
- Interfaith Keynote as part of Utah Pride, by Bishop Karen Oliveto
- Michael and Donna Showalter, by Mormon Stories Podcast
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
The polls will stay open until Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 10am Switzerland time. May the best content of 2019 win!!
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