The polls are here!! Thanks to everyone who nominated — I’m really thrilled that so many people are helping keep this venerable tradition alive — to help recognize/promote the best LDS-interest content of the year!!!
Sorry about the delay (I meant to post the polls yesterday), but it was actually difficult to categorize all of the nominations. Unfortunately there were a few categories that didn’t hit the required 3 nominations in order to make it to the voting phase, so I had to drop them. đ
I did my best to find an appropriate category for every nomination. Note that because there are so many podcasts (like, WOW!!! — an amazing array of podcasts!!) I didn’t include podcasts in the “Best YouTube Channel” category even if the podcast is also a YouTube channel — I put them in “Best Podcast” only, to avoid the channels that are primarily YouTube channels from getting swamped by podcasts.
I also had to fudge a little on the meaning of “Trek” for one of the categories. đ
The polls will be open until Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. Switzerland time. Here they are:
Year-long awards:
Best new LDS-interest site/blog/channel/content creator 2023:
- Girlscamp podcast by Hayley Rawle
- c & A podcast
- Data Over Dogma
- Floodlit.org
Best LDS-interest YouTube channel 2023:
Best LDS-interest TikTok channel 2023:
- maklelan (Dan McClellan)
- Mormon True Crime with Beth Magnetic
- Cultural Hall
- @post_mormone with Jessie Jensen
- @analyzing.mormonism
Best LDS-interest podcast 2023:
- Radio Free Mormon
- Cults to Consciousness
- The Backyard Professor
- Human Stories
- Mormon Stories
- Mormon Land
- Breaking Down Patriarchy
- She Became Visible
- 21st Century Saints
- At Last She Said It
- Sunstone Podcast
Best LDS-interest Blog or Column 2023:
Best LDS-interest Website 2023:
- Floodlit.org
- QuitMormon.com
- LDS Discussions
- MormonThink
- WasMormon.org
- The Widowâs Mite Report
- 21st Century Saints
Awards for individual works:
Best LDS-interest Book 2023:
- The Camper Killings, by Johnny Townsend
- The Path and the Gate: Mormon Short Fiction, edited by Andrew Hall and Robert Raleigh
- Bad Mormon by Heather Gay
- Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath, by Richard E. Turley Jr and Barbara Jones Brown
- Midwife Of The Wild Frontier, by Melissa Tyler (author; illustrations by Luciana Maruca)
- Convicting the Mormons, by Janiece Johnson
Best LDS-interest Podcast Episode or Series 2023:
- Hidden True Crime: Adam Steed
- Mormon Stories: Jodi Hildebrandt
- Mormon Stories: Jessi Hildebrandt
- Mormon Stories: LDS Discussions Series
- Jordan and McKay: 8 Passengers and Connexions Series
- Zelph on the Shelf: BYU professor says divorce is too easy
- Zelph on the Shelf: Queer mormons should be eunuchs for kingdom?!
- Mormon Land: Booting womenâs leaders off the stand was âhurtfulâ and âheartbreakingâ
- Mormonish Podcast: New Groundbreaking Research Dismantles Book of Mormon Authenticity w/ Dr. John Lundwall
- Nemo the Mormon: WHAT HAPPENED to The Mormon Church in 2023?
Best LDS-interest illustration/artwork/meme 2023:
- Jesus found the cash register at the temple
- Baptism for the dead
- King Lamoni, Jewish American Indian from the Book of Mormon
- Illustrations of Midwife Of The Wild Frontier, illustrated by Luciana Maruca
- Hi, Iâm Eliza, by Rebecca Bibliotheca
- Scout camp, by Rebecca Bibliotheca
- Whatâs the big deal? by Rebecca Bibliotheca
Best Exit Story 2023:
- The Exact Moment I Lost My Testimony in the Mormon Church, by Alyssa Grenfell
- Why I left the Mormon Church, by Hayley Rawle
- Leaving the Mormon Church, by c & A Podcast
- Why I Left the Mormon Church â Carahâs Untold Story, by nuancehoe
Best LDS-interest Investigative Reporting 2023:
- Lynn Packer on Tim Ballard
- Operation Underground Railroad Update, by RFM
- Could IKEA do Mormon Temples? by Nemo the Mormon
- Recordings show how the LDS Church protects itself from child sex abuse claims, by Michael Rezendes and Jason Dearen
Best Discussion of LDS culture or doctrine 2023:
- âPurityâ is a dehumanizing, delusional concept, by Zelph on the Shelf
- Todayâs Young Mormons are Growing Up in a Completely Different Church, by Exmo Lex
- The disturbing world of Mormon funerals, by Zelph on the Shelf
- âThey Have Changed the Ordinanceâ: Ritualistic Patriarchy on the Move, by the Grand Scoobah
Best LDS-interest Song 2023:
- Wonder Eye by Little Moon
- Last Christmas my shelf fell apart, by Cultural Hall
- Up, by David Archuleta
- Afraid to Love, by David Archuleta
Funniest LDS-interest Humor Piece 2023:
- ProgMo Sunday Dinner, by Jessie Jensen
- Girl Defined shares their sinful selfie past, by Zelph on the Shelf
- RFM Outtakes and Preshow (The Mormon Who Knew Too Much), byLatter-daily Digest
Best Trek content 2023:
- Star Trek Canon and Biblical Theology, by Andrew Hackman
- Trauma on Trek, by Hayley Rawle
- Trekxmo (LDS Star Trek memes)
Best tales of marginalized people navigating Mormonism 2023:
- Sister Missionaries fall in love, by Latter Gay Stories
- Being Ignored as a Black Woman, by Girlscamp podcast
- The Untold Story of the 1995 LDS Womenâs Conference, by nuancehoe
- Human Stories: Sally Gary
- Human Stories: Laurie Lee Hall
Best work on healing from religious trauma 2023:
- My husband taught me to disappoint people, by Meg Conley
- No-Nonsense Spirituality, by Brittney Hartley
- Leaving the Mormon machine, I struggled to find community without conformity, by Monya Baker
We have some really fantastic content to choose from this year!! I’m looking forward to listening to all of the podcast episodes that were nominated!
And may the best LDS-interest content of 2023 win!!!
Fun to see a few nail-biters emerging. I only regret that I have but one vote to give for my favorites.
Funniest LDS-interest Humor Piece 2023
RFM Outtakes and Pre-Show
Latter-daily Digest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0V–JLbBpU
Hey just wanted to let ya know my name is spelt nuancehoe (with and E). Thanks for the nominations!! These creators are all so dope!
Gene — Thanks for the additional nomination!! I added the poll. đ
Carah — OMG, I am so sorry! I have corrected your name in the link lists, but I’m not sure I can edit the polls themselves at this point without deleting all the votes….
This is a cute idea, and something that Iâve talked with other influencers about putting together to highlight all the varied creativity among the beautiful humans who are shining a light on Mormonism.
It could be really great.
But how appropriate that a man beat out 4 women because he has the advanced degree and credibility they Mormonism stole from the countless women in this space. Dan was heâs Iâll funded by BYU on his channel, propped up literally by MY tithes, and this has a greater reach than my petty 4-8 million a month, or the few thousand or few hundred or few dozen of the other women who produce content without LDS Inc. bankrolling our time and efforts.
My followers and other major creator friends were disappointed. There should I be more careful consideration behind the scenes, in my opinion.
Alyssa Grenfell, Britt Hartley, Sharon, and Cara and women like them are reaching more and changing more LDS lives than anyone on the planet, at great personal cost, while Dan spouts fairy tale factoids and props up the patriarchy. Hard pass.
Hi Jennie, I’m not sure which race you’re talking about. Is this about Dan McClellan winning best TikTok channel? There were only 816 votes in that category — anyone could have won by campaigning a bit.
Unfortunately it’s hard for use here to get the word out about the Brodie Awards during the nominations and voting phases, so it often happens that people don’t realize that they were in the running in time to campaign for themselves with their fans.
That said, Alyssa Grenfell and Britt Hartley both won Brodie Awards this year — just look at the winner’s thread. Nuancehoe also won one (if that is the Cara you’re talking about…?), and I don’t know who Sharon is, but maybe she won one too…?