Alright, we got a bunch of great nominations last week! I’m sorting this from fewest to most nominations. (We didn’t get many Tare-ific Nominations!
Tarefic Awards
What was the worst excommunication of 2017?
Who was the biggest soapbox commenter of 2017?
Who was the worst commenter in 2017?
Tarefic Write-in category:
What was the worst Mormon Internet Drama in 2017?
- tweets by Wife With a Purpose
Now it’s time to vote for the best of Mormonism and the Bloggernacle! From Fewest to most:
Best Solo Blog:
What was the Best Bloggernacle Controversy last year?
Best contribution to the Bloggernacle in 2017:
What was the funniest blog last year?
Coolest Scoops!
- Paul Reeve, Brian Hales, Ugo Perego’s role in Gospel Topics Essays
Best post series last year:
What was the best Mormon activism of 2017?
Best contribution to interfaith dialogue:
What was the Best book/article/movie review last year?
- A second atonement: Mother’s Milk and healing a theological crack in Mormonism’s heart
- Writing Ourselves
What was the Best post on feminism last year?
What was the Best new blog (first published in 2017)?
What was the Best faith crisis post last year?
Who is the Best new blogger of 2017?
What was the best spiritual post last year?
What was the Best Post on the Temple last year?
- Temples and Secrecy
- Temple Doctrine and church culture: It’s bad but it’s {not?} getting better
- For the Love, Loathing and Laughter of the Temple Endowment
- Ouija boards, Spiritualism, and the Endowments for the Dead
Who was the Best overall blogger last year?
What was the best post title last year?
- If she asks for tacos, give a salad?
- Being subject to Voldemort
- Modesty as a Matter of Life and Death
- Look Who’s Talking
Who was the best commenter last year?
- JR
- Mike
- Dan
- Happy Hubby
- MTodd
- Andrew S.
- Jason K.
- Dani Addante
Funniest Post last year:
- 95 Theses
- Trek Re-Enactments We’d Like to See, Ranked
- Mormon Girls are Hot
- School-Sponsored Mountain Graffiti
- Surviving Excellence
What was the Best doctrinal post last year?
- Plans of Salvation
- The Ten Virgins: A Parable of Environmental Stewardship
- Certain Women
- If it’s self-serving manipulation, it is not of Christ
- Seven Deadly Heresies
- I am not a mother
- Who is my mother? A contradiction in the Proclamation
Best satirical post last year?
- New Gospel Topics Essay
- Mormon Church Officials Announce Plans to Decrease Male General Conference Speakers by 50%
- Young Women’s Theme (v2 12.15.17)
- Church Announces Boys Can do More
- An Old LDS Woman Talks to Young Single Adult Brothers about Intimacy
What was the best historical post this past year?
- Who’ll Be a Witness for My Lord?
- Women as Temple Witnesses within Living Memory: What I Know, and What I Don’t Know
- Vincenzo di Francesca: Cultural Impediments in the Way of His Baptism
- Fact vs. Fiction: Pioneer John Rowe Moyle and His Wooden Leg
- Historical Context of the Family Proclamation, or Yet Another Post on the Bloggernacle’s Favorite Punching Bag
- 6 Questions for Tom Kimball on the Kirtland Temple
- The Sailor and the Apostle: “The Thinking Has Been Done”?
- When A Woman Served as an Official Witness for Mormonism’s First Baptism for the Dead
- Channeling Angelina Grimké at my LDS Ward
Best current events post last year:
- The Arc of the Moral Universe Bends Whichever Way We Bend It
- The Errand of Angels: A Response to Sister Dalton’s YSA Address
- Mormon Women Marching
- Life Outside the Book of Mormon Belt
- Bury Your Weapons: the Mormon Case Against Gun Violence
Best personal post last year:
- Don’t Tell Me I Don’t Understand the Priesthood
- On the Nature of Christian Service
- Songs of a Fat Mormon Woman
- Making Hay While the Sun Shines
- Sit Down and Shut Up
- Thoughts on Two Baptisms, 1989 and 2016
- The blessings of the priesthood
- Second Guessing the Call to Serve
- A Letter for My Someday-Teenage Children
Best post on church policy of last year:
- Sacred Narratives, and Intrinsic Sacredness
- What if Beehives Passed the Sacrament Too?
- Left Holding the Towel
- Thought experiment about baby blessings
- By the Book
- Funeral planning for Mormon Feminists – How the Patriarchy puts you in your {final resting} place
Which of these write-ins is most deserving of a Wheaties Award?
- 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
- FEMWOC
Best podcast:
- Mormon Matters
- Mormon Stories
- Mormon Expression
- 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
- Gospel Tangents
- LDS Perspectives
- Year of Polygamy
- Mormon Discussion Podcast
- FAIR Mormon
- Mormon News Report
Best Mormon Facebook community or discussion forum:
Now on to the rest that we need nominations for!
Wheat & Tares 
Worst Mormon Internet Drama:
– the entire Trump presidency
– Nelson claims Pox was revelation
– YW get to hold towels, still don’t get to witness
How about a new category for best Mormon Twitter:
@ByCommonConsent
@experttextperts
@cjanekendrick
@jet_set
@_intelligencer_
@KenJennings
Another for best commenter: ReTx
A vote for Exploring Mormon Thought for best podcast.
I nominate Angela c as worst commenter…
For endlessly misinterpreting events in a offensive manner.
For the podcast category, you need to take out Mormon Expression (last podcast was May 2016). FairMormon only had one podcast published in all of 2017. Same with Mormon Expositor (April), and their site doesn’t even work anymore. If we are evaluating the podcasts on 2017 episodes, it’s not worth keeping these guys in just for those single episodes.
For group blogs, Doves & Serpents didn’t have anything in 2017. Neither did Modern Mormon Men. Both Exploring Sainthood and Mormon Mentality have defunct sites right now (though ES did have a handful of 2017 posts according to some digging on the Wayback machine). My inclination would be to drop all four sites from the running for 2017 awards.
I agree with Mary Ann. These nominations need to be cleaned up to remove sites that are no longer on deck.
Worst commenter: AndrewR
Best Mormon FB Community: Exponent II group
Best New podcast (or whatever that category is): The Exponent II podcast http://www.the-exponent.com/category/podcast/
Funniest Post: Patriarchy Love Poetry
http://www.the-exponent.com/patriarchy-love-poetry/
Funniest Post: My 95 Thesis for Today’s Mormon Church http://www.the-exponent.com/my-ninety-five-theses-for-todays-mormon-church/
Funniest Post: Mercia Second Ward http://www.the-exponent.com/medieval-second-ward/