Time to Vote for X-MoOTY and the Brodie Awards 2025!!

It’s time to vote for all of your favorite X-Mos!!! The polls will remain open until Wednesday, January 14th at 8:00 a.m. Switzerland time. This year no intermediate results will be displayed because the winners will be announced live on Mormonism Live!!

Top nominees will be included in the Awards Ceremony. If you know anyone who was nominated and would like to be highlighted/included in the ceremony, please ask them to contact me at chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com so that I can give them instructions on how to be included, thanks!!!

X-Mormon of the Year 2025

(This is for real life actions or activism and/or making the normie news cycle in 2025.)

• 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
• Holy Homo Healing Hour Podcast

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
• 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

Good luck and may the best Mo and X-Mo talents win!!

(If there are any errors in the polls, corrections are welcome in the comments below)