Last week we kicked off your nominations for the best and worst of 2016. Here’s an update for nominations so far. Be sure to tell you friends! I’ve listed categories without any nominations at the top.
Tarefic Awards
What was the worst excommunication of 2016?
Who was the biggest soapbox commenter of 2016?
Tarefic Write-in category:
What was the worst Mormon Internet Drama in 2016?
- Tabernacle Choir singing at Trump Inaugural
- Mormon Wikileaks
Who was the worst commenter in 2016?
- Rob Osborn
- Ronkonkoma
Now it’s time to vote for the best of Mormonism and the Bloggernacle!
Best Solo Blog:
Who was the best commenter last year?
Best contribution to the Bloggernacle in 2016:
Best contribution to interfaith dialogue:
What was the best Mormon activism of 2016?
- BYU rape scandal
- Not Even Close Faculty-Gender Balance at BYUs: https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/09/16/not-even-close-faculty-gender-balance-at-the-byus/
What was the Best Bloggernacle Controversy last year?
- BYU’s (mis)-handling of rape reports
- Will Utah vote Trump, Clinton, or McMullin?
Who was the Best overall blogger last year?
- Mormon Heretic
- Hawkgrrrl
- Jana Reiss
What was the Best Post on the New Gay Policy?
- Unintended Consequences http://www.the-exponent.com/unintended-consequences/
What was the best post title last year?
- “The False Enemies We Worship”: https://wheatandtares.org/2016/08/19/the-false-enemies-we-worship/
- You’ve Given This Program A Bad Name: https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/09/21/youve-given-this-program-a-bad-name/
Funniest Post last year:
- “Standing, or Something”: https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/05/25/standing-or-something/
- “Dear Sister Sassy: Planning A Heterosexual Baptism”: http://www.the-exponent.com/sistersassybaptism/
- “Rejected Millennial Star Posts”: http://www.experttextperts.com/2016/01/rejected-millennial-star-posts.html
- ZD Goes Buzzfeed http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2016/07/24/zd-goes-buzzfeed/
- Predictions for General Conference http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2016/03/31/predictions-for-general-conference
What was the Best new blog (first published in 2016)?
What was the Best faith crisis post last year?
- I Want My Church Back http://www.the-exponent.com/i-want-my-church-back/
What was the Best doctrinal post last year?
- Book of Mormon war chapters: http://mormonwar.blogspot.com/2016/06/approaching-war-chapters-part-three-how.html
- I don’t believe in being clean http://www.the-exponent.com/i-dont-believe-in-being-clean/
Best satirical post last year?
- “Keeping Our Boys Safe”: http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2016/05/keeping-our-boys-safe/
- A Psalm of Trump http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2016/10/11/a-psalm-of-trump/
What was the best historical post this past year?
- How Mormon Women Were Correlated Out of LDS Church Finances http://ordainwomen.org/how-mormon-women-were-correlated-out-of-lds-church-finances/
Best current events post last year:
- Oregon standoff: https://wheatandtares.org/2016/01/15/a-short-history-of-robbers-and-insults/
- “The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide”: http://rationalfaiths.com/the-lgbtq-mormon-crisis-responding-to-the-empirical-research-on-suicide/
What was the funniest blog last year?
- Zelophehad’s Daughters http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/
What was the Best post on feminism last year?
- “…and also with You”: https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/12/27/and-also-with-you/
- Challenging Authority, Redefining Leadership (3-part series by Jenny) http://www.the-exponent.com/?s=Challenging+Authority%2C+Redefining+Leadership
- BYU Rape Myths https://wheatandtares.org/2016/05/24/byu-rape-myths/
Best post on Benevolent Patriarchy
- The Benevolent Patriarchy: A Letter to my Mormon dad, who voted for Donald Trump http://www.the-exponent.com/guest-post-the-benevolent-patriarchy-a-letter-to-my-mormon-dad-who-voted-for-donald-trump/
Best personal post last year:
- “Choking on Life”: http://zelophehadsdaughters.com/2016/12/14/choking-on-life/
- A Different Take of the Good Samaritan: https://wheatandtares.org/2016/10/30/a-different-take-on-the-samaritan-story/
- Sexual Assault at BYU: My Own Story http://www.the-exponent.com/sexual-assault-at-byu-my-own-story/
Who is the Best new blogger of 2016?
Best post on church policy of last year:
- “Private Ecclesiastical Interviews for Children Are Abusive and Must Stop”: http://www.the-exponent.com/private-ecclesiastical-interviews-for-children-are-abusive-and-must-stop/
- “The Least Degree of Allowance”: https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/04/09/the-least-degree-of-allowance/
Best post series last year:
- Women of the Bible: http://www.the-exponent.com/tag/women-in-the-bible/
- Challenging Authority, Redefining Leadership (3-part series by Jenny) http://www.the-exponent.com/?s=Challenging+Authority%2C+Redefining+Leadership
What was the Best Post on the Temple last year?
- “I Would Have Said “No”: Agency, Coercion and Temple Covenants”: https://wheatandtares.org/2016/11/18/i-would-have-said-no-agency-coercion-and-temple-covenants/
What was the best spiritual post last year?
- And she passed by on the other side http://www.the-exponent.com/and-she-passed-by-on-the-other-side/
What was the Best book/article/movie review last year?
- Revisiting the Friend Magazine’s ‘When I Grow Up’ Feature http://aspiringmormonwomen.org/2016/09/06/revisiting-the-friend-magazines-when-i-grow-up-feature/
Wish they still updated these blogs:
- The Mormon News Report
- Mormon Mentality
- Life on Gold Plates
- Celibate in the City
- The Faithful Dissident
Where are they now?
- Cowboy
- FireTag (he passed away, but we still miss him)
- New Iconoclast
Best Use of Data:
- What’s in a Name? SquareTwo Poll Survey Results on the Naming of Women’s Positions and Organizations in the LDS Church http://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleCasslerMcBaineWomensNamesPoll.html
- Not Even Close: Faculty Gender Balance at the BYUs https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/09/16/not-even-close-faculty-gender-balance-at-the-byus/
Which of these write-ins is most deserving of a Wheaties Award?
- Most astute reader of the Bloggernacle: Ziff
- Most Soul Searching Provoking Blogger: Mormon Heretic
- After 25 Years, Female Chaplain Endorsed by LDS Church http://www.the-exponent.com/an-interview-with-a-female-mormon-chaplain/
- 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
- Modern Mormon Men
- Segullah
- No More Strangers
- Approaching Justice
- FEMWOC
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 Discussion Podcast
Best Mormon Facebook community or discussion forum:
Every year, someone tells us they didn’t hear about nominations until it was too late. Don’t let that happen! Continue your nominations!
Wheat & Tares 
I’lol stroke my ego and nominate myself from the Worst excommunication of 2016, over a SINGLE Facebook post.
http://www.mormonthink.com/personalstories/bruce-holt.htm
Damn predictive typing! “I’ll” not “I’lol”.
Where does schtuff like that come from???