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It’s Time to Vote for the 2024 Brodie Awards!!!

chanson, January 5, 2025

We have a fantastic crop of nominees this year!! There are more books this year than ever!

As you’re going through and voting for all of your familiar favorites, I encourage you to check out some of the ones you haven’t heard of yet. I do every year, and the Brodies’ nominees never disappoint!

The polls close on Sunday, January 19th, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. Switzerland time.

Year Long Awards

Best New LDS-Interest Content Creator 2024 (includes new channels and websites, but the earliest post must date no earlier than Nov/Dec 2023)

  • Alyssa Grenfell
  • The Lord’s Newsroom
  • Beyond Belief
  • CoffeeWithKish

Best LDS-Interest Podcast 2024

  • Radio Free Mormon
  • Mormon Discussion Podcast
  • Mormon Stories Podcast
  • Infants on Thrones
  • Girlscamp
  • c & A Podcast
  • 21st Century Saints
  • Second-Class Saints
  • Human Stories with Jill Hazard Rowe
  • Latter Gay Stories
  • Sunstone Mormon History Podcast

Best LDS-Interest Video Channel 2024

  • Alyssa Grenfell
  • Zelph on the Shelf
  • Nemo the Mormon
  • The Cultural Hall
  • Data over Dogma
  • Exmo Lex
  • Mormon Civil War
  • Cults to Consciousness
  • Latter-daily Digest
  • TheBackyardProfessor

Best LDS-Interest Discussion Community/Forum 2024

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

Best LDS-Interest Social Media Contributor 2024

  • u/3am_doorknob_turn
  • WhiteCatProphecy
  • u/Strong_Attorney_8646

Funniest LDS-Interest Humor Site 2024

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

Best LDS-Interest Informational Site 2024

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

Biggest Mormon Douche Canoe supporting the exmo cause 2024 (Normally I would not allow this category because the Brodies are not intended to be a negative/booby prize, but this category came in from r/mormon, so maybe it’s OK to throw in just one…)

  • Hildebrandt
  • Ballard(s)
  • Bundy
  • Bednar
  • Hansen

Awards for Individual Works

Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2024

  • Tales of Unworthiness, by Paul H. Dumm
  • American Trinity, by David G. Pace
  • Wrecking Balls: Our People, by E. C. Browne

Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction) 2024

  • The Book of Queer Mormon Joy, edited by Kerry Spencer Pray
  • Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to my New Life as a Woman, by Laurie Lee Hall
  • The Boughs of Love: Navigating the Queer Latter-day Saint Experience During an Ongoing Restoration, by Nathan Kitchen

Best LDS-Interest Book (non-narrative, non-fiction) 2024

  • How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon’s Guide to Rebuilding After Religion, by Alyssa Grenfell
  • American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, by Benjamin E Park
  • Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Matthew L. Harris
  • Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization, by Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith
  • The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah, by Erin Stiles

Best LDS-Interest Work of Poetry or Scripture 2024

  • Book of the Lavens, by Evan Sharley
  • The NEW Book of Abraham – Chapter 1, by Infants on Thrones
  • Objetos de [des]amor: Loss and Longing through a Godless Queer Chicano Lens, by Juan Antonio Trujillo

Best LDS-Interest Song 2024

  • I turned Choose the Right into an ExMormon Hymn Parody, by Cultural Hall
  • Sacrament, by Die Shiny
  • Gaslight Me, by Irene’s Entropy
  • Hell Together, by David Archuleta

Best LDS-Interest Image 2024

  • LDS Church Faces New Class-Action as Members Demand Their Planets
  • President Nelson Making More Changes on a Whim..
  • Mormon Missionaries, Steinbach 964

Most Humorous LDS-Interest Work 2024

  • Church Leaders Worry Prominent LDS Therapist Openly Promoting Healthy Emotional Skills, by the Lord’s Newsroom
  • Another Mormon Horror Story, by Donna Banta
  • Raising Mime Awareness, by Zelph on the Shelf

Best Exit Story 2024

  • Why I No Longer Believe in God (From Mormon to Atheist), by Alyssa Grenfell
  • My Excommunication is Official, by Nemo the Mormon
  • Leaving the Mormon Church Pt. 3, by c & A Podcast
  • Why I left, by The Bishop’s Interview

Best LDS-Interest Short Video 2024

  • It’s culty now but it used to be WAYYYY wilder… by Alyssa Grenfell
  • Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon? by Nemo the Mormon
  • Mormon Quotes about Women, by ExmoLex

Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode 2024

  • Human Stories: Jenni Gracesun
  • The Secret Life of an (Ex) Mormon Wife with Jessi Ngatikaura
  • Getting Your Own Planet in Mormonism, by RFM
  • Former Mormons react to Heretic, by Girlscamp

Best LDS-Interest Investigative Reporting 2024

  • How the Mormon Church BULLIES Small Towns, by Nemo the Mormon
  • Heaven’s Helpline, by Murray Jones
  • Utah Bills Itself as “Family-Friendly” Even as Lawmakers Have Long Neglected Child Care, by ProPublica
  • The Widow’s Mite Report

Best Activism within the LDS Church 2024

  • 21st Century Saints for their work advocating for victims of abuse.
  • Rebecca Biblioteca and Nemo the Mormon for challenging the McKinney, Texas Temple steeple height
  • James Huntsman, Laura Gaddy, Lyle D. Small and Leanne R. Harris for their ongoing tithing/fraud lawsuits that had federal court hearings in 2024

Most Insightful Analysis of LDS Culture or Doctrine 2024

  • Ballerina Farm and the illusion of choice for Mormon women, by Zelph on the Shelf
  • Tapirs are Hate Speech Now? by Nemo the Mormon
  • God the Monster, by Holly Welker
  • Mormons, I Will Never Forgive You, by Johnny Townsend
  • Responding to the Church’s Instagram Snafu, by Anonymous (Exponent II)

Best LDS History Piece 2024

  • The Top 15 Evidences Against Book of Mormon Historicity, by Mormon Discussion Inc.
  • Did the LDS Church Support the Nazis?, by Radio Free Mormon
  • Is “biblical womanhood” real? by Zelph on the Shelf
  • How a Non-Canonical Gospel Shaped Christmas, by John Hamer and Centre Place

Best Analysis of Mormonism and Marginalized Groups 2024

  • Mormon Church Appeases Bigoted Members with New Transgender Policy, by Cultural Hall
  • Second-Class Saints, by Matthew L. Harris
  • Community, Exponent II’s Secret to Endurance, by Monya Baker
  • Their Not-So-Secret-Lives, by Haley Swenson

Best LDS-Interest (Post/Episode) Title 2024

  • Mormon Polygamous Men Were Really Bad at Sex: a Hypothesis, by Abby Maxwell Hansen
  • Raising Mime Awareness, by Zelph on the Shelf
  • Drunk Friend’s Text Written in Perfect Chiasmus, by the Lord’s Newsroom

Good luck to everyone, and may the best content creators win!!!

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