Last Call for Nominations!!

Edit: The polls are up and the nominations are now closed. Vote here!!!

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.
• Rebecca Biblioteca for her coverage of the Fairview Texas temple controversy.

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
• The Farm Podcast Mach II
• Mormonish
• Latter-daily Digest

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

• Reform Mormonism (discord server)
• 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
• Rebecca Bibliotheca
• Nemo the Mormon

Brodie Awards for Individual Works 2025

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2025

• Murder at the Jack Off Club, by Johnny Townsend
• Deseret State Mysteries, by Nathan Nish
• Salt Academy Mysteries, by Nathan Nish

Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-Fiction) 2025

• Wolf Act, by AJ Romriell
• Growing Up with Satan, by Dane V. Campbell
• Filling Empty, by Randy C. Watts
• The Juvenile Instructor Office: The Growth of Specialized Publishing in Utah in the 1880s, by Craig S. Smith.
• Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, by John J. Turner

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 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
• Creepy Uncle at the Family Reunion, by Short_Seesaw_940

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

• Rebecca Biblioteca for her coverage of the Fairview Texas temple controversy.
• 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
• Dear Mormon Man, Tell Me What You Would Do, by Amy McPhie Allebest

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.)

Edit: Nominations are closed. Vote here.