Last Call for Brodies Nominations!!

Wow, have we got a lot of great nominations this year!! Thanks to all who spent the time to review the works of the past year and nominate the best!!

I have gathered up all of the nominations and worked out the (more-or-less) final categories — with remarks for you on possible final changes. Note: if you are an author, and you have more than one nomination in a single category, you may request to have only your favorite of your pieces go on to the voting phase (to avoid competing against yourself). Or if one of your nominated pieces could potentially fit in a different category and you would like it moved, please say so.

Year-long awards for people and websites:

Best New Blog

• Nearing Kolob
• lds.net blog
• Funny Mormon Memes
• Mormonism 101
• Gospel Doctrine for the Godless
• Mormons are Funny
• God’s Meeting Minutes
• Sheep Dip
• weird mormon shit
• My In-laws Are Mormon
• Mormon Faith Crisis Help

Best Discussion Forum
This category has only one nomination, probably because it is highly unlikely that any other forum stands a chance of beating the Exmormon Reddit. If there are no objections, I’ll drop this category this year.

• Exmormon Reddit

Best Humor/Satire Site or Blog

• Funny Mormon Memes
• Brother Jake
• Infants on Thrones
• Mormons are Funny
• God’s Meeting Minutes
• Sheep Dip
• My In-laws Are Mormon

Best LDS-Interest Audio/Video Channel

• Radio West by Doug Fabrizio et al.
• Infants on Thrones
• Brother Jake
• My Book of Mormon Podcast
• McKeever’s Mormon Research Ministry

Best LDS Church Watch/Analysis Blog or Website
This is a new category for 2014 — there was a real explosion of new sites analyzing and reporting on the CoJCoL-dS. If you have any recommendations for a better title for this category, please say so in the comments.

• Mormon Leaks
• Mormonism 101
• Debunking FAIR’s Debunking
• Mormon File Leaks
• weird mormon shit
• Mormon Disclosures
• Latter-day Perspective

Best Scripture Study Blog/Podcast

• Gospel Doctrine for the Godless (by Daniel Midgley)
• Book of Mormon Commentary (by Alex)
• Dwindling in Unbelief (by Steve Wells and Philip Wells)
• My Book of Mormon Podcast

Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog
This category needs more nominations

• Rational Faiths
• Wheat & Tares

Awards for Individual Works:

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)

• Free Electricity (by Ryan Rhodes)
• A Song for Issy Bradley (by Carys Bray)
• Behind the Zion Curtain (by Johnny Townsend)
• Selling the City of Enoch (by Johnny Townsend)
• Gayrabian Nights (by Johnny Townsend and others)
• A Day at the Temple (by Johnny Townsend)
• City of Brick and Shadow (by Tim Workus)
• The Lost Book of Mormon (by Avi Steinberg)

Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction)

• American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church (by Alex Beam)
• What To Expect When You’re Excommunicated: The Believing Mormon’s Guide to the Coming Purge (by Rock Waterman)
• Strange Flesh: The Bible and Homosexuality (by Steve Wells)

Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image

• Joseph Smith’s family portrait (by Pat Bagley)
• Kate Kelly online discussing her excommunication in absentia (by Trent Nelson)
• …on Kate Kelly’s pending excommunication (by Pat Bagley)
• Hey, Stan! Don’t speak evil of the Lord’s anointed! (recaptioning the famous South Park episode by 4blockhead)
• A rare copy of Joseph Smith’s Egyptology 101 Final Examination (by Bart Pascoal)

Best Mormon-Themed Meme

• Breaking News: President Newsroom’s Message to Average Joe/Jane Mormon
• Priorities
• Scumbag Mormon God (by young_mossy)

Best Musical Work
This category needs two more nominations or will be dropped.

• Too Sexy (by Infants on Thrones)

Most fantastic r/mormon AMA

• Kate Kelly
• Avi Steinberg
• Tom Kimball

Best Post Title

• Praise to the Man Even with 40 Wives and Teenage Brides (by David Grant)
• Magnify your boobs (by Profet)
• code name bull$hit (by Holly)
• A few confessions on bad choices I’ve made since leaving the church – I’m only human after all. (by kimballthenom)
• No more Jack Handy quotes…. (by CS)
• Obedience is the first law of heaven aka the brethren.. (by CS)
• Members of Ordain Women Admitted into Priesthood Meeting for First Time, Immediately Regret it (by Snorri Sturluson)

Funniest Humor Piece

• 9 Mormons Who Would Make a Better Batman than Ben Affleck (by Kylie Ravsten)
• MormonProbs at Hogwarts: If Harry Potter Were a Mormon (by Adam Williams)
• Ooooohhhhhmmmmmmbabyelephantsbabyelephants (by Natalie R. Collins)
• Dealing with Visiting Teacher Dodgers (by Donna Banta)
• Magnify your Boobs (by Profet)
• Satan Files for Bankruptcy (Infants on Thrones)
• Coffee (Infants on Thrones)
• A few confessions on bad choices I’ve made since leaving the church – I’m only human after all. (by kimballthenom)
• ExMormons Brace Themselves For Romney 2016 (by Donna Banta)

Most Poignant Personal Story

• What my terrible trip to the museum taught me about patience, long-suffering, and eternal marriage
• Exposing the numbers behind LDS Growth in Latin America: A Missionary Confession
• I found out too late (by _Wilted_Flower)
• Death (by Nick Bigney, Infants on Thrones)

Best LDS-Interest Feature story or special-interest series
I’m not sure if this is the besta way to categorize these… Either there will be more nominations that fit here, or I’ll fold these nominations into another category…

• Women of Faith: How the Story was Created and Produced
• Missionary blog review series on Nearing Kolob

Best Exit Story
This category needs some more nominations…

• How a sacrament meeting in Afghanistan started me on my journey out of the church (by cvscout84)

Best Moving On from Mormonism Piece

• When the Levee Breaks (by Lori Burkman)
• How we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the church isn’t true (Mormon Expression podcast)
• You Can Leave the Church, but the Church Can’t Leave You Alone (by David Burns)
• Re-Learning Normal: Post-Mormon Edition (by Post-Mormon Girl)

Best Original Research Regarding Mormonism

• A comparison between the Book of Mormon and the Late War… (by Chris Johnson and Duane Johnson)
• Temple Name Oracle (by Clint Kimball)
• Latter-day Perspective
• A So-called “Post” (by Ziff)

Best LDS Church Watch Piece

• Missionaries coming home early? (by runtu)
• Mormon Control (by Rachel Velamur)
• The Mormon Month from Hell (by Donna Banta)
• Under the Pretense of Love (by B. Very Chill)
• McKeever’s Mormon Research Ministry
• LDS Tithing: Bare Necessities (by Thinker of Thoughts)
• It’s Official: Mormon Founder Had Up to 40 Wives (by Laurie Goodstein)
• ‘Gay’ not an option in Mormon survey on sexual orientation (by Peggy Fletcher Stack)
• LDS Church should make clear Smith was wrong to take 14-year-old wife (by Kristy Money)

Best Podcast Series or Episode

• Mormon Expression the Great Weird Off Mormon Expression – Mormons vs. Jehovah’s Witnesses
• The Narrating Ordain Women series (FMH podcast)
• Perfectionism and False Realities in the Perfect Mormon Family (FMH podcast)
• The Placebo Effect (series from Infants on Thrones)
• Interview with Sandra Tanner (Mormon Stories)

Best Response to Apologetics

• A few stops on a virtual tour of Nauvoo (by 4blockhead)
• The Fog of Marriage and More on the Polygamy Essays (by Runtu)
• Greg Trimble, the word is “Adultery” (by Mithryn)
• How to build a transoceanic vessel (Mormon Expression podcast)
• Pay no attention to the man behind the curtains~! Lived and Living Mormonism (by Andrew S)
• A Response to “Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham” (by Dr. Robert Ritner)
• Canaan’s Ark (by Adult Onset Atheist)
• LDS Marriage 2112 (by Geoff Nelson)

Most Interesting Interfaith Interaction

• Ordain Women: Some thoughts and encouragement (by Ms. Jack)
• The Christmas Jesus and stuff (Infants on Thrones Podcast)
• My kids vs. Grandma in an epic truth battle (by greyghostmachine)
• Testimonies of Other Faiths (by Faith Observer)
• Don’t Get Your Hopes Up! Conservative Arguments Against Liberal Mormon Activism (by Andrew S)
• What do little freethinkers believe in? (by Leia)
• New Witnesses this time (by Daniel Midgley)

Best Religion-and-Race Discussion

• Mormonism and race in 2014 (by Andrew S)
• Mormonism and respectability politics (by Andrew S)
• No Surprise: Cliven Bundy is Racist (by Mark)
• “If Thou Doest Well, Thou Shalt Be Accepted” (by Daniel Midgley)

Best Religion-and-Gender Discussion

• Why aren’t the women included in this? (By Lori Burkman)
• What doesn’t kill you makes you… what? (by chanson)
• A Sexual Abuse Survivor Responds to Joseph Smith’s Polygamy
• Questions I’ll Probably Never Get to Ask the Mormon Missionaries (by The Sinister Porpoise
• Three Lessons (by Pandora)
• The Shelf (by Em)
• At The Gender Rolls Bakery (by April Young Bennett)

Best Religion-and-Orientation Post

• Out-Patient Surgery: “I’m His Husband” (by Joseph Broom)
• Officially a Married Couple in Utah!! (by Chelsey Sidler-Lartey)
• Ty Mansfield on Deconstructing Homosexuality (while preserving heterosexuality) (by Andrew S)
• Prodigal Brother Syndrome (by Dad’s Primal Scream)

Best Erotic or Sexual Piece
This category needs one more nomination or will be dropped.

• Mormongirlz: Sister Davis & Sister Price Get an Elder Off
• Mormonboyz: Elder Riley & Bishop Angus: Ordination

Best History Piece

• Year of Polygamy (fMh podcast series)
• Mormonism and the Red scare (Mormon Expression podcast)
• A few stops on a virtual tour of Nauvoo (by 4blockhead)
• Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo (by anonymous at lds.org)

Most Insightful Commentary on the CoJCoL-dS

• The Privileges and Responsibilities of Sisters (by Colleen Kelly Poplin)
• The Buddhist Parable of the Raft (by Eric)
• The Cycle of Misattributed Victory Over Self-Abuse (by Thinker of Thoughts)
• Not sure why OW is so upset. There are women at the highest levels of Church leadership. This proves it! (by soulure)
• Why outing Rock, John, and Kate is the worst PR move for the Church post Prop-8 (by iscreamsunday)
• Ordaining Women Would End Joyful Diversity (by Holly Welker)

Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion
This category could potentially be renamed

• Modal, Model, Mormonism (by Andrew S)
• Fix your faith crisis with this one weird trick! (by Thinker of Thoughts)
• Cliven Hooves (by Adult Onset Atheist)
• The Shifting Sands of a Shaky Foundation! (by Steve Bloor)

Best Parody/Metaphor/Analogy
I thought of this category at the last minute because it seemed like I saw a lot of these… Please submit your own, and I will probably add a few more or move some into this category.

• Re: Katie’s house felt different after her family stopped going to church (by sevennseven)

Best Poem
This category needs one more nomination or will be dropped.

• If Only (by Letters from the Vineyard)
• The Errand of Angels (by Gabriella Anne)

Best Review

• What part of Mormonism is in you?: Johnny Townsend’s “A Day at the Temple” (reviewed by chanson)
• JSeth Anderson’s review of The Lavender Scare
• Little Factories (Infants on Thrones)
• Review of “Selling the City of Enoch” by Johnny Townsend (by Donna Banta)
• 50 Shades of Stockholm Syndrome (by Holly)

Best Recipe
This category needs two more nominations or will be dropped.

• Froggey’s coconut lemon bars

Unfortunately, I will not have time to prepare the polls until Wednesday or Thursday of next week, so you have one more week to get in your final nominations. Thanks to all for participating!!