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Congratulations Brodie Award Winners 2023!!!

chanson, January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

Wow, there were some tightly-contested races this year!! Best YouTube channel got more than 1500 votes! Congratulations to the winners and a big thanks to everyone who participated!!

Year-long awards:

Best new LDS-interest site/blog/channel/content creator 2023: Floodlit.org

Best LDS-interest YouTube channel 2023: Nemo the Mormon

Best LDS-interest TikTok channel 2023: maklelan (Dan McClellan)

Best LDS-interest podcast 2023: Mormon Stories

Best LDS-interest Blog or Column 2023: Flunking Sainthood by Jana Riess

Best LDS-interest Website 2023: The Widow’s Mite Report

Awards for individual works:

Best LDS-interest Book 2023: Bad Mormon by Heather Gay

Best LDS-interest Podcast Episode or Series 2023: Mormon Stories: LDS Discussions Series

Best LDS-interest illustration/artwork/meme 2023: Jesus found the cash register at the temple

Best Exit Story 2023: The Exact Moment I Lost My Testimony in the Mormon Church, by Alyssa Grenfell

Best LDS-interest Investigative Reporting 2023: Lynn Packer on Tim Ballard

Best Discussion of LDS culture or doctrine 2023: “Purity” is a dehumanizing, delusional concept, by Zelph on the Shelf

Best LDS-interest Song 2023: Afraid to Love, by David Archuleta

Funniest LDS-interest Humor Piece 2023: Girl Defined shares their sinful selfie past, by Zelph on the Shelf

Best Trek content 2023: Trauma on Trek, by Hayley Rawle

Best tales of marginalized people navigating Mormonism 2023: The Untold Story of the 1995 LDS Women’s Conference, by nuancehoe

Best work on healing from religious trauma 2023: No-Nonsense Spirituality, by Brittney Hartley

Congrats all!!! Here are this year’s winners’ buttons — please feel free to copy these images and display them on your site:

To see the final results of all of the polls look here.

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  1. Chino Blanco says:
    February 2, 2024 at 5:40 pm

    Just passing along some responses…

    From the folks behind Floodlit.org : “Thank you to the folks who put these awards together too! It’s a great way to discover and recognize high quality resources.”

    From an r/mormon commenter: “This is excellent. Thank you for putting this together. There is so much content I did not know about but look forward to consuming.”

    15 years on, nice to see the Brodie Awards still collecting thousands of votes, cheers!

  2. chanson says:
    February 3, 2024 at 12:01 am

    Thanks so much!!! I’m really glad people are still enjoying these fun little awards after 15 years!!!

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