We wanted to give you an update on the Wheaties and Tarefic Awards! This way, you can tell us what we forgot and we can wrangle over the issues before the voting starts next week. Feel free to continue nominations for one more 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 don’t forget about the nominations for the Brodie Awards at Main Street Plaza.
Here we go . . .
Wheaties categories:
Best big blog:
Best group blog:
- Juvenile Instructor
- Peculiar People
- Faith Promoting Rumor
- Zelophehad’s Daughters
- Doves and Serpents
- Exponent II
- Peculiar People
- With Real Intent
- Worlds Without End
- Main Street Plaza
Best mommy blog:
- No nominations
Best humorous blog:
Best solo blog:
- Keepapitchinin by Ardis Parshall
- No Death Before the Fall by R Gary
- Irresistible Disgrace by Andrew S
Best new blog: (must have put up its first post in 2012)
Best blog layout/graphics:
Best overall blogger:
- Taylor Petrey
- George Handley
- Hawkgrrrl
- Mike S
- Jacob Baker
- Andrew S
- John Hamer
- Margaret Young
- Tracy M
Best commenter:
- Hawkgrrrl
- Mike S
- Thomas Parkin
Most memorable comment:
- Mark Brown, The Super Bowl of Analogies
Funniest thread:
- Are We Paying Too Much Tithing?
- The Super Bowl of Analogies by Cynthia L. at BCC
- Ziff’s Nacle Notebook 2012: Funny Comments
Best post title:
- Exactly 1000 words on pants by Cynthia L.
- Steve Evans, “To All the Stupid People
- Will God and my Good, True, Loving Husband Be Merciful?” The Secret Love Letters of Joseph F. Smith and Susa Young Gates
Best humorous post:
- Matsby, “John McNaughton’s Idea Journal“
- Casey, General Conference: What are the Odds?
- Election Reactions Explained by GIFs
- Elder Uchtdorf to don Burqa by ZD
- Hawkgrrrl, Poor Rich People
Best historical post:
- Ben P., “Mormon Patriotism and the Cultural Reading of Scripture“
- Amanda, “Hawaiian History, Colonialism, and the Polynesian Cultural Center“
- Ben P., “A Historical Note on ‘Unorthodox Mormonism”
- Mormon Heretic, The First Black Mormon Leader: Pete
- Mormon Heretic, The Bushman Interviews
Best spiritual post:
- Jacob Baker, All Eternity Shakes: Mormonism’s Weeping God
- SC Taysom, What Quinten Tarantino Taught Me About the Temple
- Kristine Haglund, To See Face to Face
Best doctrinal post:
- Why is it So Hard to Figure Out what Mormons Believe?
- Gospel Doctrine lessons by Julie Smith
- Emma, My daughter in Zion: A Preliminary Study of D&C24 by Joseph M. Spencer
- LDS Correlated Lessons and the Hermeneutical Model-Pardes
- Gabriel Gomes Fidalgo In His Own Words: Gabriel Gomes Fidalgo, 2012
- The Temple and the tempest by James Olson
Best personal post:
- A mission dream for the last day of autumn by Craig H.
- Greg Prince: My Journey
- Kristine Haglund, “To See Face to Face
- What is in name: Faith of my Fathers
- Gabriel Gomes Fidalgo In His Own Words: Gabriel Gomes Fidalgo, 2012
- Anonymous/Matthew
- Unraveling by Lynette
Best current events post:
- Patrick Mason, “The Politics of Jesus
- Saskia T., “Negotiation on the Internet: The Mormon ‘Hey Girl’ Meme“
- fmhLisa, On Nastiness: Why Nice Mormons Can be so very very mean about pants
Best book/article review:
- Juvenile Instructor’s series on Turner’s biography of Brigham Young
- David G. et. al., Roundtable on the Brigham Young Biography.
- Ben P, “2012 in Retrospect: An Overview of Noteworthy Articles and Books in Mormon History
Best contribution to the Bloggernacle in 2012:
- Jacob Baker
- Steve P.’s Gilda Trillim series
- Joanna Brooks appearing on The Daily Show
- “Forgotten Women” series by Winterbuzz
- Mormon Heretic, The Bushman Interviews
Best contribution to interfaith dialogue:
- Chanson at Main Street Plaza
- Joanna Brooks
- Sara Long/Scott Holley/Mormon Building Bridges for Mormon Pride Parade
Best navel-gazing post:
- No nominations
Best Mormon podcast series
- Mormon Stories
- Mormon Matters
- Mormon Expositor
- Infants on Thrones
- Mormon Stories Sunday School
- Feminist Mormon Housewives Podcast
Best Mormon Facebook community
- Mormon Stories Podcast Community
- Mormon Expression VIP Lounge
- Feminist Mormon Housewives Society
Write-in category:
- Best Mormon Moment Post: Patrick Mason, “Why Romney’s Loss is Good for Mormonism
- Ben P., “The Best of the Mormon Moment.”
- Best Social Activism – All Enlisted – Wear Pants to Church Day
- Best Definition of Commonly Misused Terms in the Church: “What Is The Church?”
- Best Definition of Commonly Misused Terms in the Church: “Understanding Priesthood Keys.”
- Best Poetry Column – Psaltery and Lyre
- Julie Smith and the Kent Larsen for their posts on BoM
- Most clever name for an awards category: “Tarefic”
- Best Activism: FMH – Temple Baptism Project
Categories for the Tarefic Awards!
Worst Mormon internet drama
- David Twede/MormonThink Controversy
- Daniel Peterson/John Dehlin Rumored Attack Letter
- Ralph Hancock/Joanna Brooks Mormon Liberalism drama
- Pantspocalypse
Biggest Soapbox commenter.
- Jon
- Will
- Dan
- Nick Literski
- Henry
- R Gary
Commenter that started the most arguments
- DKL
- Dan
- Will
- Jon
Most missed personality on the Bloggernacle:
- Steve Evans
- Scott B.
- Adam F.
- Faithful Dissident
Write-in category:
- BCC – “Great post” or “Thank you”
- Biggest Cray-Cray Lunatic Commenter Who Isn’t a Troll: Weston Krogstadt Rules!
- Worst Comments: Facebook comments on the Pants page.
What else should we add/change?
Wheat & Tares 
I’d like to nominate Bonnie Atkinson in the category of,
Best personal post:
http://realintent.org/why-i-think-were-having-the-wrong-conversation/
We would love to use that post for next year, but thisis a review of 2012
Well darn, that’s what I meant. Thought you might like a preview. You can just file it for now.
Thanks. ; )
#1 I’d like to nominate Bonnie Atkinson in the category of, Best personal post I don’t know, it is a well written article but here you are using an inclusive blog to promote an article published in an “faithful” blog that openly excludes.
In response to that article I wrote: Bonnie declares; We aren’t ready. while others seem to believe we are. I guess it comes down to the faithfully waiting and the faithfully agitating! Is there room for both on the same pew? I pray there is. but my comment was placed in moderation and remains there as of this post.
Perhaps it should be nominated for Best personal post on an exclusively faithful blog.
I appreciate my recent piece “Are We Paying Too Much Tithing?” being entered in the nominations, but for “Funniest Thread”?
I don’t think it belongs in the funniest category. Would anyone like to place it in nomination somewhere else?
(I am, of course, too modest to nominate one of my own blog entries myself. Although, all modesty aside, at over 32,000 hits, that tithing piece garnered more readers than anything else I’ve ever written. So I kinda liked it.
As I recall, weren’t you the one that said there were weird comments? Perhaps you could link to some of the odd comments in the Tarefic category?
#5,6
It could fit under historical or doctrinal post I think. It was an interesting read, following the link. I didn’t read all the comments though. Wasn’t this guy the commenter referred to: Biggest Cray-Cray Lunatic Commenter Who Isn’t a Troll: Weston Krogstadt Rules!
Seems to be in under write-in catergory, rather than any specific comment.
Can I nominate ‘worlds without end’ for the best blog layout (it’s the best I’ve seen for mobile at any rate).
#5 Howard,
I think we need both on the same pew. The agitators point out the problems and hopefully bring them to the attention of the higher ups, whilst the ‘waiters’ ensure it doesn’t come to an all-out revolution.
Of course, the longer the wait, without any acknowledgement that some people have an issue, some of those waiters may in due course become agitators.
That’s #4 Howard. Sorry.