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Last Call for Nominations!!

chanson, December 29, 2025

I’m going to be posting the polls for X-Mormon of the Year and the Brodie Awards on the first of January (2026), so there’s not much time left to get your last nominations in. I’m going to gather up the current list of nominations here so that you can see which categories still need nominees! (But you can add more nominations in categories that already have enough.)

X-Mormon of the Year 2025

(This is for real life actions or activism and/or making the normie news cycle in 2025. For content creation alone, nominations will be moved to the “Best overall social media personality”.)

  • Heather Gay. She started a new show in 2025 that has sufficient reach outside of the LDS-interest community to have broken into the news cycle of 2025.
  • Floodlit.org for shining the light on sexual abuse within the CoJCoL-dS made the news in 2025 for shining the spotlight on Joseph Brent Walker.
  • Redditor Suspicious_Might_663 for uncovering evidence of CoJCoL-dS ownership of $92,510,000 in Staten Island property.
  • Popular LDS podcasters Valerie and Nathan Hamaker publicly resigned from the CoJCoL-dS in March of 2025 in response to being threatened with church discipline.

Year-Long Brodie Awards

Best New LDS-Interest Creator/Channel/Site 2025 (Creator’s first post should be no earlier than October 2024):

  • Abstract Atheists
  • BrittyTheApostate
  • Karen Hyatt
  • This is one of our most important categories — to signal-boost creators who are brand-new. Please nominate any new creators you know of!!!

Best LDS-Interest Podcast 2025

  • Radio Free Mormon
  • Mormon Discussion Podcast
  • Mormonism Live
  • Infants on Thrones
  • Girlscamp
  • 21st Century Saints
  • Human Stories with Jill Hazard Rowe
  • Mormon Stories Podcast
  • Sunstone Mormon History Podcast
  • Mormonism: Beyond Belief
  • Coffee with Kish
  • Pouty Mouth Podcast

Best LDS-Interest Video Channel 2025

  • Alyssa Grenfell
  • Zelph on the Shelf
  • Nemo the Mormon
  • Data over Dogma
  • Mormon Civil War
  • Cults to Consciousness
  • Latter-daily Digest
  • MisterDeity
  • MormWithThoseWhoMormed
  • Generally Unquotable
  • PorchTime

Best LDS-Interest Blog/Magazine 2025

  • The Exponent II Blog
  • Wheat & Tares
  • Sunstone

Best LDS-Interest Humor Site 2025

  • The Lord’s Newsroom
  • BrittyTheApostate
  • Trekxmo
  • It Just Gets Stranger, by Eli McCann
  • r/exmormonmemes

Best LDS-Interest Discussion Forum 2025

  • r/mormon
  • r/exmormon
  • r/MormonShrivel
  • Mormon dialogue & discussion board

Best LDS-Interest Informational Site 2025

  • Floodlit.org
  • The Widow’s Mite Report
  • QuitMormon.com
  • WasMormon.org

Best Overall LDS-Interest Social Media Personality 2025

  • Radio Free Mormon
  • Samantha from MormwiththosewhoMormed
  • Alyssa Grenfell
  • Nemo the Mormon

Brodie Awards for Individual Works 2025

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2025

  • Murder at the Jack Off Club, by Johnny Townsend
  • This category needs two more nominations to be included in the voting phase!

Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative Non-Fiction) 2025

  • Wolf Act, by AJ Romriell
  • Growing Up with Satan, by Dane V. Campbell
  • Filling Empty, by Randy C. Watts

Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-Narrative Non-Fiction) 2025

  • The Juvenile Instructor Office: The Growth of Specialized Publishing in Utah in the 1880s, by Craig S. Smith.
  • This category needs two more nominations to be included in the voting phase!

Best Title (for an article or video) 2025

  • All Former APs To Compete in Battle Royale For Title of Douchebag Supreme, by the Lord’s Newsroom
  • Are you THE Chosen Generation? YES!! by Generally Unquotable
  • To Hell in a Handcart, by Girlscamp
  • Mormon Meets Satan, Instantly Regrets It, by Radio Free Mormon
  • Not Willing to be Burned at the Stake Center, by Latter Day Struggles

Most Humorous LDS-Interest Work 2025

  • Join My Downline: The Mormon Edition, by BrittyTheApostate
  • God Throws Hands In Air After Early Utah Settlers Pray for Seagulls to Eat The Crickets He Sent as Protein, by the Lord’s Newsroom
  • Mormon church announces change to temple ceremony to appeal to younger members, by BakingNerd47

Best LDS-Interest Song 2025

  • Don’t You Worry, by Tanner Gilliland
  • This category needs 2 more nominations to be included in the voting!

Best LDS-Interest Image 2025

  • You can check out any time you like but you can never leave, by BakingNerd47
  • Ashleigh, what are you wearing? by u/mugcostanza77
  • This category needs at least one more nomination to be included in the voting!

Best Exit Story 2025

  • Not Willing to be Burned at the Stake Center, by Latter Day Struggles
  • The Real Reason I Left the Mormon Church, by Alyssa Grenfell
  • The Messianic Prophecies, by MisterDeity
  • I’m “Quitting” Ex-Mormonism, by Exmo Lex

Best LDS-Interest History Discussion 2025

  • To Hell in a Handcart, by Girlscamp
  • The Handcart Disaster, by The Sunstone History Podcast
  • The Mormon Colonization of Tonga (60%???), by Alyssa Grenfell
  • Is Mormonism’s Most Mysterious Legend Disappearing? by Nemo the Mormon
  • God’s Swear Jar (+ the Didache) by Data over Dogma
  • It’s A Thanksgiving Miracle: Johnny Appleseed Edition, by Farm to Taber

Best Discussion of Polygamy 2025

  • Platforming Mormon Polygamy Deniers, by Coffee with Kish
  • LeBaron Divide: Priesthood, Power, & Struggle for the Birthright, by Rick B.
  • Polygamy! by Data over Dogma
  • Polygamy Fallacies, by Radio Free Mormon
  • Twins Trapped in Polygamy Gain Their Freedom, by Latter-daily Digest
  • Special Report: Earning Love & Polygamy, by Generally Unquotable

Best LDS-Interest Investigative Reporting 2025

  • Uncovering another church real estate company in New York with $92,510,000 in Staten Island property for development, by Suspicious_Might_663
  • The Mormon Church Was Hacked, by Nemo the Mormon
  • Ensign Peak Tax Evasion, by the Widow’s Mite

Best Discussion of LDS Doctrine 2025

  • New Study by BYU Researchers Suggests that Brigham Young Was Speaking As A Prophet Just 4% Of The Time, by The Lord’s Newsroom
  • What do Latter-day Saints believe in these latter days?, by Andrew S.
  • Does the Mormon Church Need to Repent? by Nemo the Mormon

Best Analysis of Mormon Culture 2025

  • The Religion Business
  • A Social Experiment: Rule by the Elderly, by Janey
  • Mormons Are Ruining Reality TV, by Girlscamp
  • No, Elder Bednar, This is Not How You Get Your Children Back to Church, by Kara Stevenson
  • Mormon Disney Adult Mania, by Alyssa Grenfell

Best Discussion of Mormonism and Marginalized Groups 2025

  • Notes on Second-Class Saints, by Dave B.
  • I Was A Nonbinary Sunbeam, by Anonymous (Wheat & Tares)
  • All I Want for Christmas is…the Priesthood? by Mindy May Farmer
  • Sorry, we didn’t mean to say that out loud, by Megan Buhler
  • Queer, Non-believing at BYU, by Girlscamp
  • Black Mormonism, by Radio Free Mormon

Best LDS Reminiscences 2025

  • What Happens at the Family Reunion… by Girlscamp
  • The Quiet Trauma of Mormon Girlhood, by Alyssa Grenfell
  • Eating disorder from LDS mission, starving to fund the Church’s real estate empire, by Abstract Atheists and Mental Amanda

Best LDS-Interest Short Video 2025

  • My Church Let my Family Down, by Life Take Two
  • Bearing my Testimony, by Abstract Atheists
  • Joseph Smith’s MESSY storytelling, by Zelph on the Shelf
  • Did Matthew Stretch the Emmanuel Prophecy? by Data over Dogma
  • He’s More Popular Than (Mormon) God, by Nemo the Mormon
  • Do Mormons Not Believe in the Pre-Existence Anymore? by mormwiththosewhomormed
  • Are you THE Chosen Generation? YES!! by Generally Unquotable

Overall Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode or Sub-Series 2025

  • “The Light on Truth Letter” Series, by Radio Free Mormon
  • Could Joseph Smith Write or Dictate a Well-Worded Letter? by Mormon Stories Podcast
  • Mormonism’s Adam God Doctrine Never Existed ? by Mormonism Live
  • Can we get some more nominations for this category?

Please add your nominations below!! Links are always appreciated!! (If you sent a nomination that doesn’t appear here, please leave a comment so I can correct it.)

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