It’s that time of year again!! Time to reflect upon the past year and recognize the most interesting parts. Here at Main Street Plaza, that means electing the William Law X-Mormon of the Year!! The Wm. Law X-Mormon of the Year should be the X-Mormon who made the biggest splash…
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Get ready for the Brodie Awards!
2022 is nearing its end, which means that awards season is coming up! Main Street Plaza has hosted the William Law X-Mormon of the Year and The Brodie Awards since 2009. In case you’re not familiar with these awards — or maybe you are, but you’d like to know more…
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Congratulations 2020/2021 Brodie Award Winners!!!
The polls are now closed — you can see the final results and links to all of the nominees here. Best LDS-Interest Podcast or Video Channel 2020/2021: Mormonism Live with Bill Reel and RFM Best LDS-Interest Fiction 2020/2021: The Prodigal Daughter, by Mette Ivie Harrison Best LDS-Interest Analysis (Book) 2020/2021:…
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Congratulations to Wm. Law X-Mormon of the year 2021: Jeff T. Green!!
Tech billionaire and richest dude in Utah Jeff T. Green made a very public break with the CoJCoL-dS when he resigned from the church in 2021 — while donating $600,000 to Equality Utah. In his resignation letter, he wrote that the Mormon Church “has strained and divided millions of families”…
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Congratulations to Wm. Law X-Mormon of the year 2020: Jacinda Ardern!!
The youngest person to become Prime Minister of New Zealand in over 100 years, Jacinda Ardern has long been a shining star of the ExMo community. She won 2020’s X-Mormon of the Year uncontested due to her country’s remarkable response to the Covid 19 pandemic. The eyes of the world…
It’s Time to Vote for the 2020/2021 Brodie Awards!!!
If you haven’t voted yet for X-Mormon of the Year 2021, you can still vote until January 16, 2022 at this link. And now for the Brodies!! The polls will remain open until Sunday, January 23, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Switzerland time. Best LDS-Interest Podcast or Video Channel 2020/2021: Exmo…
Time to vote for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2021!!!
If you have any last nominations for the Brodie Awards, you can continue posting them here until the polls go up on Sunday, January 9, 2022. For X-Mormon of the Year, you can vote here until Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Switzerland time: Here’s a review of what…
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Last Call for Nominations (X-MooTY & Brodies)!
We’ve got some great nominations so far — keep ’em coming! I’ll be posting the polls here at Main Street Plaza shortly. The polls for X-Mormon of the Year will be posted on January 2, 2022, and the polls for the Brodie Awards will be posted on January 9, 2022….
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Collecting Nominations for the 2021 Brodie Awards!!! (and 2020…)
It’s that time of year!! Time to recognize the best LDS-interest works of the year by giving them Brodie Awards!! When we first started doing these awards more than 10 years ago, the online discussion of Mormonism was mostly taking place on blogs (like this one!) — but that has…
The Brodie Awards and X-Mormon of the Year
Main Street Plaza has hosted the Brodie Awards and William Law X-Mormon of the Year for a full ten years. It all started in 2009 when exmos were explicitly excluded from the Bloggernacle’s “Niblets” — a set of awards that fizzled out a few years later. Check the sidebar for…