Edit: Nominations are closed. Vote here.
Welcome to the opening of the 16th annual Brodie Awards season!!!
I hope many of you are already familiar with how this works — but I also hope there are also some new people participating for the first time this year!! Especially for the new people, let me explain a bit about how this works:
The Brodies are a set of awards like the Oscars (or Grammys, Emmys, Tonys, etc.) specifically geared towards LDS-interest (and particularly X-LDS-interest) content creators.
The categories themselves are crowd-sourced and change from year to year — based on what types of content were well represented over the past year. There are two main sections: year-long awards for content creators (and their sites/channels) and awards for individual works.
Anyone can nominate (in the comments below and/or in the corresponding Reddit threads). Please feel free to nominate yourself and your own works (up to 3 times).
Please, please include links in your nominations. Sometimes comments with links get stuck in moderation — if this happens to you, please email me at chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com, and I’ll approve your comment.
I will start with a set of suggested categories — but please feel free to suggest your own categories! Each category needs to have three nominees in order to be included in the voting phase — so please be ready with three nominees if you have a category suggestion that you’d like to see included.
Year Long Awards
Best New LDS-Interest Content Creator 2025 (includes new channels and websites, but the earliest post must date no earlier than Nov/Dec 2024)
Best LDS-Interest Podcast 2025
Best LDS-Interest Video Channel 2025
Best LDS-Interest Discussion Community/Forum 2025
Best LDS-Interest Blog or Magazine 2025
Best LDS-Interest Informational Site 2025
Awards for Individual Works
Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2025
Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction) 2025
Best LDS-Interest Book (non-narrative, non-fiction) 2025
Best LDS-Interest Poetry Collection 2025
Best LDS-Interest Song 2025
Best LDS-Interest Image 2025
Most Humorous LDS-Interest Work 2025
Best Exit Story 2025
Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode 2025
Best LDS-Interest (Post/Episode) Title 2025
Best LDS-Interest Investagative Reporting 2025
Most Insightful Analysis of LDS Culture or Doctrine 2025
Best LDS History Piece 2025
Best Analysis of Mormonism and Marginalized Groups 2025
Again, please feel free to add your own categories, and especially please, please add your nominations of your favorite works!! As every year, I really look forward to checking out (and signal-boosting) the best LDS-interest content and content creators of the past year!!
LDS (ex-LDS) fiction: Murder at the Jack Off Club by Johnny Townsend
Both main characters are gay ex-Mormons. One is indigenous who was part of the Indian Placement Program.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/murder-at-the-jack-off-club-johnny-townsend/2ab15bcc46666fc4?ean=9781961525283&next=t
I’ve not read this, but this book looks really good!
https://www.ajromriell.com/wolf-act
For best LDS interest book narrative nonfiction: Growing Up with Satan by Dane Campbell
https://changewithdane.com/book/
Alyssa Grenfell. Best LDS interest podcast. Mothers in heaven. You nailed it. Insightful. Honest and heartfelt.
Thanks for the great nominations so far!!!
I’m going to add some nominations here myself. I’ll consolidate later.
For Best Exit Story:
Mr. Diety posted a new exit-from-Mormonism story embedded in a video about Messianic Prophecies. (At the same time, I’ll nominate his mrdiety for best video channel.
Also for Best Exit Story:
Latter Day Struggles podcast episode: not willing to be burned at the Stake Center
For Best Investigative Reporting:
Uncovering another church real estate company in New York with $92,510,000 in Staten Island property for development by Redditor Suspicious_Might_663.
For best history (or narrative nonfiction) book: The Juvenile Instructor Office: The Growth of Specialized Publishing in Utah in the 1880s by Craig S. Smith.
For best history piece: It’s A Thanksgiving Miracle: Johnny Appleseed Edition by Farm to Taber. This one counts as “LDS-interest” because Sarah Taber includes a quick aside about how growing up Mormon helped her understand one element of Johnny Appleseed’s story.
I’ve found two for a new category of personal survival stories (if we get one more, we can make this a real category!). These are not for the faint of heart:
My church let my family down by lifetaketwo7662.
HOLY HORRORS #1 | Eating disorder from LDS mission, starving to fund the Church’s real estate empire, by Abstract Atheists and Mental Amanda
Abstract Atheists for best new channel 2025.
Most humorous episodes
Britty the Apostate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRYqwEy6rhk
Best new humorous/satirical channel:
Britty the Apostate
https://www.facebook.com/people/Britty-The-Apostate/61579368354784/
https://www.tiktok.com/@brittytheapostate
https://www.youtube.com/@BrittyTheApostate
Best LDS-Interest Podcast 2025: The Mormon Newscast – Mormon Discussions & Mormonish
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq34QmiHsNjendNvjF-ue_ERNofwG0lDi
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzh1qiLbCcydi91bO1iDVN1fgIl6hTFVG
Best LDS interest video channel – Generally Unquoteable
I nominate Porchtime https://www.youtube.com/live/M4eigiy-Qew?si=nCWzOjbep21szT4L
For the LDS Interest Discussion Group/Forum 2025
This is my favorite podcast, which I find most informative, original, funny, and helpful to get me through things.
For Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode 2025
“Could Joseph Smith Write a Well-Worded Letter? – LDS Discussions” https://youtu.be/B1vjDGK2qas?si=C4mXeX6vWv1xLhEl
Best new series – Radio Free Mormon’s series addressing the Light and Truth Letter
Best LDS interest reporting 2025- widows mite on ensign peak tax evasion. https://thewidowsmite.org/epa-tax/
Best podcast- mormon stories or mormonism live
Best LDS-Interest Discussion Community – mormon shrivel
Best LDS-Interest Informational Site 2025 – widows mite or floodlit
Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode – mormonism live on adam god
Most Insightful Analysis of LDS Culture or Doctrine – the religion business https://www.thereligionbusiness.com/
Thanks for all of the fantastic nominations so far!! Please keep ’em coming — and tell your friends (and favorite creators) to come here and nominate their favorite creators!!!
I’ve just put up a new post explaining how the awards will work this year, including a live awards ceremony!!
For “Best LDS-Interest Discussion Community/Forum 2025” I’d like to nominate the Reform Mormon discord server 🙂
https://discord.gg/bwRJnW8ZYd
Here I am discussing LDS-adjacent work I did, the Lake Valley Mysteries series:
https://shows.acast.com/exclusive-subscribers-shows/episodes/unraveling-lake-valley-mysteries-w-nathan-nish-recluse
https://podtail.com/podcast/the-farm-podcast-mach-ii/interdimensional-cats-archons-mysteries-more-at-th/
There is a corresponding podcast episode already recorded, but not yet posted. To be clear, nominating the fictional satire book(s), not the podcast (which covers all kinds of things I find interesting.)
I’d nominate the series for “Best Satirical Fiction”.
Rebecca Bibliotecca is my write in. She goes above and beyond .
Rebecca biblieteca – the most in the know about top topic in mormonism. Number to report top headlines
I’d like to nominate Rebecca Bibliotecha and her podcast, Mormonish, which she shares with Landon Brophy. Rebecca tirelessly covers the goings-on with cities and their dealings with the church and the building of temples as they try to bulldoze over the town/city ordinances. She reports on and does so much reporting on many other important news items within the church.
Mormonish Podcast Fairview TX and other Temple Coverage
Best LDS-Interest Podcast 2025: The Mormon Newscast – Mormon Discussions & Mormonish
Best LDS-Interest Investagative Reporting 2025-Rebecca Bibliotecha
Best LDS-Interest Investigative Reporting 2025–Rebecca Bibliotheca
Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode 2025 – I nominate The Mormon Newscast (collaboration between Mormon Discussions and Mormonish YouTube channels).
Best LDS-Interest Investagative Reporting 2025 – I nominate Rebecca Bibliotecha from Mormonish for her investigative reporting on Temple building and sex abuse scandals in the Mormon Church. She often was the first to break the news or confirm certain facts about these cases.
Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode 2025 – The Mormon Newscast (collaboration between Mormon Discussions and Mormonish YouTube channels).
Best LDS-Interest Investigative Reporting 2025 – Rebecca Biblioteca from Mormonish for her investigative reporting on Temple building and sex abuse scandals in the Mormon Church.
I would like to nominate Rebecca Bibliotecha/Mormon.ish broadcast as one of the very best news cast on Mormonism for the last several years.
I’d like to nominate Mormonish Podcast, Rebecca Biblioteca, for Best LDS-Interest Investigative Reporting 2025.
The care, consistency, and courage shown in their reporting — especially around difficult and sensitive topics — truly matters. Thank you for the work you do.