We wanted to give you an update on the Wheaties and Tarefic Awards! Please spread the word about nominations. Last year we had a 3 week nomination period, and still some blogs didn’t get the word in time.
As you can see, we are short on nominations for a few categories. Feel free to continue nominations for another week! Here are the nominations so far, and you can check out the links so you can be an informed voter. If you have a link to add, please let us know, and put it in brackets to avoid our spam catcher. And don’t forget that Main Street Plaza is hosting their Brodie Awards too.
Here are our 2014 Wheaties categories:
Best big blog:
Best group blog:
- Wheat & Tares
- Juvenile Instructor
- Faith Promoting Rumor
- Zelophehad’s Daughters
- Doves and Serpents
- Exponent II
- Peculiar People
- Exploring Sainthood
- Worlds Without End
- Main Street Plaza
- Mormon Mentality
- Modern Mormon Men
- Segullah
- No More Strangers
- Approaching Justice
Best podcast:
- Mormon Matters
- Mormon Stories
- Mormon Expression
- FMH Podcast
- Mormon Expositor
- The Cultural Hall
- Engaging Gospel Doctrine
- Maxwell Institute Podcast
- A Thoughtful Faith
- Infants on Thrones
Best Mormon Facebook community or discussion forum:
- FMH FB Group
- StayLDS.com/forum
- exMormon reddit
- Mormon Hub
- New Order Mormon
- Exploring Sainthood
- Mormon Stories Facebook Group
Best Bloggernacle Controversy:
- Kate Kelly Excommunication
- Bloggers targeted (John Dehlin, Rock Waterman, Kirk Caudle)
- Mormons in Torture Policy
- Cliven Bundy takes on Feds
- New Polygamy Essays on LDS.org
Best humorous blog:
Best apologetic blog:
Best new blog (first published in 2014):
Best solo blog:
Best new blogger:
Best blog layout/graphics:
Best overall blogger:
- Julie Smith
- Hawkgrrrl
- April Young Bennett
Best commenter:
- New Iconoclast aka Grey Ghost
- Hawkgrrrl
- RJH (aka Ronan)
- Kristine A
- Andrew S
Most memorable comment:
Funniest Blog:
Funniest thread:
- If You Like Trunk-or-Treats You Probably Don’t Have a Testimony
- Every Bloggernacle Argument as Told in GIFs
- General Conference, what are the odds?
- General Conference Report in Tweets and GIFs
- Is it ethical to eat Mormons?
- Hashtag Hijinks: #ItwasMom
- Where would Jesus Park?
- Mormon Jargon 2
- Monty Python’s the Meaning of Mormon Feminist Life
- A Crazy, Wild Reformation Day
- Funniest Comments on the ‘Nacle 2014
- What the Smith Boys Said This Year
Best post title:
Best humorous post:
- Church Wins Control of Key Bloggernacle Blogs After High Stakes Poker Match
- Parallel Dimension’s “Ordain Men” Movement Still Struggling
- More Gang Violence Erupts Between Prominent LDS Bloggers
- Captain Moroni’s Wife Brenda Gives Him Feedback on Care, Diplomatic Correspondence
- Church to Build Upscale Strip Malls Near Smaller Temples
- Spirit World Update: More Buddhists Sent to Work with Mormons
Best satirical post:
- Mr. Kafke goes to Temple Square
- The Camelot Convention
- The Movement to Hang Pictures of Female Leaders in Church Buildings
- Neckties: Priesthood Attire or Lucifer’s Lust pointer?
- A modest proposal for BYU-friendly ‘gay-marriage cards.’
- LDS Marriage 2112
- A Correlated Mormon Gender Issues Survey
Best historical post:
Best post series:
- When the Temple Hurts
- Birth/Rebirth series
- Things Financial Transparency Would Reveal About the Church, Ranked.
- Polygamy Series
Best post on feminism:
Best apologetic post:
Best spiritual post:
Best doctrinal post:
- Disgracing God for Prophets
- Reflecting on Elder’s Oaks Talk in the Priesthood Session
- Purple Flowers and Powerful Women
- Another Partial Response to Brother Otterson
- A Kingdom of Priests
- Men, Women, and Modesty
- Unbreakable
- What Are the Blessings of the Priesthood
- Peace on Earth
- The Doctrine of Celibacy
Best post on church policy:
- We are putting our Eggs in the Wrong Basket
- The Problem with Local Change
- Another Partial Response to Brother Otterson
- Denied Temple Recommends and Apostate Relatives
- Fix This!
- Women Disciplined by Men
- Our Sisters are Leaving
- Senior Missionary Couples
- Equal Means Something
- The Mormon Underwear Monopoly
- The Church is Pro-Choice
- Introducing Informed Consent to Bishop’s Interviews
- When Home is not a Haven
- If You’re not part of the Solution
Best personal post:
- Lessons from a Sunburn
- Renovating my Faith
- Birth/Rebirth Series
- Compassion and Service
- The Altar and the Font
- Never Let me Go
Best faith crisis post:
Best current events post:
- Perspectives of News on Possible Excommunications
- Do Women Count?
- A Victory for Pluralism
- 4 Reasons why Disaffected Mormons become Atheists
- The Deviation: a Look at the Santa Barbara Shooting
- Elder Oaks Lights up the Bloggernacle
- Otterson’s Open Letter to the Bloggernacle
Best Post on the Temple
Best book/article review:
Best contribution to the Bloggernacle in 2014:
- Brandt Malone’s “Mormon News Report”
- Ziff for Bloggernacle Historian
- Polygamy Series, Lindsay Hansen Park
Best contribution to interfaith dialogue:
Best Mormon Activism:
Write-in category:
And here are the categories for the Tarefic Awards!
Worst Mormon Internet Drama:
- SUMMONSGATE (LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson issued Summons to appear in UK Courts via Tom Phillips)
Worst Commenter
- Douglas
- Jettboy
Biggest Soapbox Commenter:
- Jettboy
Commenter that started the most arguments:
Most missed personality on the Bloggernacle:
Worst Mormon Activism:
Worst place for Believers:
- Mormon Stories Facebook Group
- Main Street Plaza
- Mormon Hub
Worst place for Unbelievers:
- Millennial Star
Write-in category:
Wheat & Tares 
Correction to your doctrinal list, as per my comment on the the initial post – the doctrinal nomination was: A partial response to Brother Otterson [http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2014/05/a-partial-response-to-brother-otterson/]
and the policy nomination : Another partial response…, but you have the latter under both, and the former under neither.
Oh, and seconding Moss’s suggestion for best faith crisis post from the initial post:
“Perhaps under Faith Crisis? Petra’s I Loved To See The Temple: http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2014/09/13/i-loved-to-see-the-temple/#more-11055“
http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/2014/04/the-mormon-priestess-the-short-version/
For best post about the temple.
what’s the difference between best humorous blog and funniest blog?
can I nominate Operation Underground Railroad for best Mormon activism? I’m pretty sure the whole thing was started by Mormons, and promoted by Glenn Beck. But it’s not really a bloggernacle deal, I’m such a newbie I don’t know how this works.
[https://www.ourrescue.org/]
also this was by far my best work before writers block hit (yes I’m self nominating):
[http://bycommonconsent.com/2014/06/04/dear-bishop/]
If you don’t mind the mostly shameless self promotion, please include my blog, Warfare in the Book of Mormon, for best apologetic blog. Thanks.
Kristine A,
I think there was a bit of confusion…Humorous blog should be a blog-wide category…whereas the other category should be funniest thread (as in, a specific post/set of comments). The nominations for “funniest blog” should be up in the “humorous blog” spot.
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Anyway, I’ll add a few more nominations here:
Best blog layout/graphics:
Interpreter: Journal Of Mormon Scripture [http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/]
Best apologetic blog:
Interpreter: Journal Of Mormon Scripture [http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/]
Commenter that started the most arguments:
Matt Warren (of Facebook)
Worst Mormon Internet Drama:
Apokellypse – (everything on internet groups about Kate Kelly’s excommunication, in addition to the excommunication)
Sister Mkhabela’s Forgotten Prayer – (Ongoing MoFem internet drama over not recognizing the first black woman’s prayer in General Conference), see also [http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/2014/10/sister-mkhabelas-prayer-our-perspectives-are-very-different/]
and, for that matter
General Conference Confusion – (Whether the General Women’s Meeting is actually part of conference) see also [http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/faith/1765034-155/general-conference-session-women-meeting-church]
Wheaties Write-in Category: Best Online Mormon Awards
1) Wheaties & Tarefic Awards (W&T)
2) Brodies (Main Street Plaza)
3) “X” Mormon of the Year (Main Street Plaza)
4) Mormon of the Year (Times and Seasons)
Tarefic Write-in Category: Worst Online Mormon Awards
1) Wheaties & Tarefic Awards (W&T)
2) Brodies (Main Street Plaza)
3) “X” Mormon of the Year (Main Street Plaza)
4) Mormon of the Year (Times and Seasons)
I gotta nominate my post “The Old Testament – There’s better books out there” for comedy
http://rationalfaiths.com/old-testament-theres-better-books-out-there/
Best exit narrative- “Why I left” for exit narratives
http://rationalfaiths.com/left/
And coining the best blog phrase
“The PRethren”
🙂 Tongans are allowed a little self promotion.
and best male perspective on ordination “Tears for the unordained women in my life”
http://rationalfaiths.com/tears-unordained-women-life/“
Seconding The Mormon Priestess on FMH for best post on the temple.
I guess I haven’t followed the Tarific awards, but I personally don’t like this “worst commentator” category, and even if I did, I wouldn’t nominate Jettboy or Douglas. Why Douglas? I don’t know all his history, but everything he’s written since I’ve been here has been hilarious. Crumudgenly and conservative maybe, but always entertaining.
I should also be nominated for “worst commentator,” at least at Millennial Star because I’ve so often made a nuisance of myself over there and gotten myself moderated.
I just realized not everyone knows me well enough to know how hilarious I think nominating myself is. #arrogantjackass
I nominate Aspiring Mormon Women (the blog/website and the FB group) for best Mormon activism. It’s high time (well, actually, it’s way past due) someone started promoting/encouraging the professional achievements of LDS women, and this group is doing fantastic work. They’ve managed to strike a tone that seems genuinely welcoming of a whole lot of diverse viewpoints and life situations.
http://aspiringmormonwomen.org/
New blogger: Kristine A at BCC
LDS_Aussie is my choice for best new blogger……good variety and issues
I help run [LDS.net], and believe it would make a terrific nomination for best new blog of 2014. The site has long had a forum, but launched a blog portion for the first time in April 2014. I believe the blog is a worthy contender.
I help run [LDS (dot) net], and believe it would make a terrific nomination for best new blog of 2014. The site has long had a forum, but launched a blog portion for the first time in April 2014. I believe the blog could also be a worthy contender for best blog layout/graphics. Sorry for no links, when I try to post them even with brackets, they get caught on the spam filter.
Here are some of the articles we published this year worth considering:
Best Post Titles: Praise to the Man with 40 wives and teenage brides
Best Humorous Post: 9 Mormons Who Make a Better Batman then Ben, MormonProbs at Hogwarts: If Harry Potter Were a Mormon
Best Post on Feminism: Mormon Feminism in Elder Oaks’ remarks
Best Post Series: 175th Nauvoo Anniversary Celebration
Best Apologetic Post: Why are there differences between Joseph Smith’s 4 First Vision Accounts
Best Spiritual Post: Letter to Seminary Students: “You Are the Truth,”
Best Personal Post: What my terrible trip to the museum taught me about patience, long suffering, and eternal marriage.
And for the Write-in Category Let me suggest Best Feature Story: Women of Faith: How the Story was Created and Produced
Thanks for your consideration