Nominations ramped up this week, but we still need you to tell your friends! Every year someone doesn’t hear about nominations until it’s too late! This is your chance to nominate, or be nominated! This is our final week of nominations. (Leave comments on other blogs to tell them to nominate!)
Voting will begin next Monday and last for a week.
We decided to start with the categories with the fewest nominations, so feel free to nominate in these smaller categories. (or if you don’t, hopefully you’ll win!)
Let’s start with the Tarefic Awards!
Commenter that started the most arguments:
- Howard
Worst Mormon Activism:
Write-in category:
- Commenter most likely to cure insomnia: Clark Goble
- The proliferation of the Rational Faiths army everywhere
Worst Commenter:
- Chris Henrichsen
- Genhy
Biggest Soapbox Commenter:
- Jeff G
- Meg Stout
Worst Excommunication:
- John Dehlin
- Rock Waterman
Worst Mormon Internet Drama:
- Kate Kelly Sunstone Tantrum
- Worst commercialization of general conference: ponderizing merchandise
- Elder Oaks’ Facebook post about Christmas cards
- The New Policy on Gays
- Three More White Apostles
- Julie Rowe and the End of the World
- The New Era’s Giver vs Getter image
Here are our 2015 Wheaties categories:
Best apologetic blog:
Best apologetic post:
Most memorable comment:
Best book/article/movie review:
- Beatles inspired review of the Hales’ Polygamy Book
- Ex-Machina and a Theology of Goodness
- My Review of the Documentary “Hot Girls Wanted”
- For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism 1830-2013
Best Mormon Activism:
Most Missed:
- New Iconoclast
Best new blog (first published in 2015):
Best blog layout/graphics:
- Wheat and Tares
- Rational Faiths
Best solo blog:
Best new blogger:
- Michael Austin
- Hadley Ann Sanchez
Best overall blogger:
Best historical post:
Best faith crisis post:
- Recovering my Sea Legs on the Old Ship Zion
- Healing when Trust is Broken with the Church
- The Desolation of the Middle
Write-in category:
- Best Post About Pop Sensation Taylor Swift
- Best Feature Story: Piano Guys Help with Miracle Conversion Story
- Best Demographics: Church President Probability Changes with President Packer’s Death
Best contribution to the Bloggernacle in 2015:
- The BCC Intelligencer newsletter
- How I’m working for Change inside my Church
- Sunstone, for expanding its speaker pool and having record breaking symposium attendance in 2015
- Mormon News Report
Best contribution to interfaith dialogue:
- Mormon Chapter of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy for their in-person dialogues and support of the World Parliament of Religions in SLC.
- “Keys to Equality” art project at the World Parliament of Religions.
- Loyalty is a Tricky Virtue
Best post title:
- Loyalty is a Tricky Virtue
- The Church of the Nuclear Family of Latter-day Saints
- Toys are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Best post on feminism:
- Love Letter to Mormon Women
- Seeking for Power the Enables
- Why I Am A Mormon Feminist…And Why I Won’t Tell You To Be One, Too
- Forget the Seat at the Table
- What Manner of Healing is this?
- What of Women and the Priesthood?
Best Post on the New Gay Policy:
- A Card-Carrying Mormon’s Case for Fighting for the Policy Change
- Single Saints and the new Gay Family Policy: My Thought Experiment
- The 9 Facebook Myths About the Church’s New LGBT Policy
- 9 Facts About the Church’s New Policy Changes
- Consequences, Intended or Otherwise
- If and Then
- The Amendment that Never Should Have Happened
Best spiritual post:
Best doctrinal post:
- Rhetoric of Indirection
- The Church of the Nuclear Family of Latter-day Saints
- Home Dedication: Set Your Home Apart from the World
- My Daughter passes the Sacrament to Me
- How to Teach Mother in Heaven & Not Get Excommunicated
Funniest Blog:
Best Bloggernacle Controversy:
Best commenter:
- MaryAnn
- SilverRain
- Kristine A
- Ziff
- Cynthia L
- Rah
- Mraynes
Best Post on the Temple
- The Sealing
- Do you wear the Holey garment?
- Temple Prep for Daughters: Brace Yourself
- Rome Temple: Martyrs, Missionaries, and Murals
Best big blog:
Best current events post:
- Looking at Iraq via the Book of Mormon
- Behold, Your Little Ones
- Fundamentalist Thinking: Lord, Is it I?
- Does the LDS Church have anything to say about War?
- ABC to Show Temple Garments on New Show
- I’m Sorry Argentina
- Through the Valley Theodicy and Black Suffering in America
Best post on church policy:
- Values-Based Suggestions for Women-Friendly Policy
- Where is the Outrage?
- What Two Little Jewish Girls Taught me about being a Male Mormon Leader
- 10 Ways to Feel Better about LDS Church
Best personal post:
- Dodging the Temple Bullet
- Where is the Outrage?
- Walking with the Boys
- Emerald Grass and May Skies
- How a Mother Became a Transhumanist
- When Having the Answers is the Wrong Answer
- Circle Unbroken
Best post series:
- Tips on being an independent scholar
- Queer Mormon Women
- Visible Women/You Can’t Be What You Can’t See
- Teaching: No Greater Call
- She Shall be an Ensign
- The Quorum of the Twelve Before They Were Called
- Heavenly Mother’s Day
Best satirical post:
- Love the Banker, but Hate the Bank
- Helping our Children Choose Bi-pedalism
- To Avoid Conflicts Between Home and Church, New Policy Bans Baptism of Children of Republicans
- Institute Students, Concerned About His Weak Faith, Caution Instructor Against Asking Hare Questions, Going on Internet
- Church Gives $5M For Refugees; Asks That It Not Go To Kids of Gay Refugee Couples
- If the Church came to me for therapy
- Personal Progress for Hamsters
- LDS Church Responds to Supreme Court Monogamy Decision
- Why God Allowed Gays to Marry
- Complicating Motherhood 4 Important Examples to Consider
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
- Mormons Building Bridges
Funniest Post:
- I Stand All Amused
- Wholesome Recreational Activities
- My Family: A Proclamation to the World
- Congrats! You have an All-male Panel
- Fun with LDS.org’s extensive stock photo library
- Top 10 Rejected Ideas for keeping Millennials in church
- Notes from a Grammar Anarchist
- Ponderize and Priestcraft: Scandal Mormon Style
- Are you Defending your Family Enough?
- D&C 132 in gifs
- Darth Vader’s Guide to Sacrament Meeting Talks
- Absurd Moments in Mormon Art: The Second Coming
- Dear Sister Sassy: Raising a Stripling Warrior
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
- FEMWOC
- Expert Textperts
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
- Rational Faiths Podcast
- Ask a Mormon Sex Therapist
- Mormon Discussions
- Faith Transitions
- Year of Polygamy
For best satire piece: “LDS Church Responds to Supreme Court Monogamy Decision” (http://rationalfaiths.com/lds-church-responds-supreme-court-monogamy-decision/) (I trust shameless self-promotion is permitted…)
Best Mormon Activism should probably be included, if Worst Mormon Activism is on there. Good and bad stuff, right?
^we do have a category for Best Mormon Activism. Currently only Mama Dragons has been nominated, though?
Please modify my nomination of “Lynette” to “Lynnette” for best overall blogger (because I can’t spell.) http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/author/lynnette/
Thanks Andrew S. In that case I will nominate Rational Faiths for Mormon Activism, for raising over $12000 for the Liahona Children’s FOundation.
Best New Blog:
http://www.transfigurist.org/
The first post was late 2014, but the second post (and real launch) was January 2015
Funniest Post:
Thomas Hatton
Absurd Moments in Mormon Art: The Second Coming
http://rationalfaiths.com/absurd-moments-mormon-art-second-coming/
Best blog layout/graphics
Rationalfaiths.com
Best Apologetic post
Jonathan Cannon
Elder Packer and Me
http://rationalfaiths.com/elder-packer-and-me/
Best Faith Crisis Post
Jeremy Timothy
The Desolation of the Middle
http://rationalfaiths.com/desolation-middle/
I nominate #togetherwithoutborders. They’re doing really great stuff!
Best Podcast: Year of Polygamy!
Oops, my nomination for #togetherwithoutborders should be under Best Mormon Activism. I got way too excited about nominating them.
I second the nomination of #togetherwithoutborders under Best Mormon activism.
Best solo blog:
Lincoln Cannon on technological evolution and postsecular religion http://lincoln.metacannon.net/
Best new blog:
Navigating Discipleship http://www.navigatingdiscipleship.com/
Best Doctrinal Post
http://www.navigatingdiscipleship.com/2015/12/my-daughter-passes-the-sacrament-to-me/
Best Personal Post
How a Mother Became a Transhumanist http://www.transfigurist.org/2015/06/how-mother-became-transhumanist.html
Do the Tarific award winners get the leg-lamp? Cuz if so, I’ll get on my soapbox more this year.
Best Satirical Post
Why God Allowed Gays to Marry
http://rationalfaiths.com/why-god-allowed-gays-to-marry/
Best Personal Post
When Having the Answers is the Wrong Answer
http://rationalfaiths.com/when-mormonism-fails/
Best Current Events Post
I’m Sorry Argentina
http://rationalfaiths.com/im-sorry-argentina/
Best Post on the New Gay Policy:
9 Facts About the Church’s New Policy Changes
http://rationalfaiths.com/9-facts-about-the-churchs-new-policy-changes/
Best commenters: Cynthia L, Rah, and Mraynes
Write-in Category: Brandt Malone for his work covering Mormon news in the daily Mormon News Report.
Tarrific nomination for write-in category: The proliferation of the Rational Faiths army everywhere.
Now that there is a new category for best post on the new gay policy, should some of the posts about that policy that were originally put in other categories be moved to the new category, such as Consequences, Intended or Otherwise (currently in the general policy category) and If and Then (currently in personal category)?
April young bennett for best blogger.
Heavenly Mother’s Day series at Exponent ii for best post series
Em at exponent ii with the “dear sister sassy” posts for best humor post.
That Sister Sassy stuff is fabulous!
Here here to Dear Sister Sassy!
http://www.the-exponent.com/dear-sister-sassy-raising-a-stripling-warrior/
Can we change the ponderizing nomination to “ponderize merchandise” or something? When I nominated I didn’t realize there was already an applicable category.
Best Satire: Expert Texperts- Complicating Motherhood 4 Important Examples to Consider
http://www.experttextperts.com/2015/05/complicating-motherhood-4-important.html?m=1
best post on the gay policy
http://rationalfaiths.com/82-the-policy-amendment-that-never-should-have-happened/
Best Series: Heavenly Mother at the Exponent II
another excellent post that meant a lot to me on feminism is Natasha’s post at FEMWOC “Forget the Seat at the Table” in response to women being put on priesthood committees this summer.
http://femwoc.com/2015/09/10/forget-the-seat-at-the-table/
Best Movie review: maybe expand it in the book review?
http://rationalfaiths.com/ex-machina-and-a-theology-of-goodness/
Best post on feminism:
http://rationalfaiths.com/what-manner-of-healing-is-this-a-conversation-on-womanist-postcolonial-healing/
Best post on current events:
http://rationalfaiths.com/through-the-valley-theodicy-and-black-suffering-in-america/
Best personal:
http://rationalfaiths.com/circle-unbroken/
Best movie review in the book review?
http://rationalfaiths.com/my-review-of-the-documentary-hot-girls-wanted/
Best post on feminism
http://rationalfaiths.com/what-of-women-and-the-priesthood/
Best Book Review
http://rationalfaiths.com/for-the-cause-of-righteousness-a-global-history-of-blacks-and-mormonism-1830-2013/
Best doctrinal post
http://rationalfaiths.com/teach-mother-heaven-not-excommunicated/