Without further ado, let the voting begin. We’re trying a different voting procedure. Unfortunately our old polling method doesn’t work on our new platform, and doesn’t allow linking. So, here are the nominations. Click the link below to actually take the survey. Results will close Sunday Feb 11 and we will post results later next week.
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If you’d like to see links, here the nominations are below!
Tarefic Awards
Who was the worst commenter in 2017?
- Kjhgdd
- AndrewR
- Mike
Worst Mormon Internet Drama:
– the entire Trump presidency
– Nelson claims Pox was revelation
– YW get to hold towels, still don’t get to witness
– tweets by Wife With a Purpose
Now it’s time to vote for the best of Mormonism and the Bloggernacle!
Coolest Scoops!
- Paul Reeve role in Gospel Topics Essays
- Brian Hales role in Gospel Topics Essays
- Ugo Perego’s role in Gospel Topics Essays
Best Mormon Twitter:
- @ByCommonConsent
- @experttextperts
- @cjanekendrick
- @jet_set
- @_intelligencer_
- @KenJennings
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
- ReTx
- 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
- Patriarchy Love Poetry
- Mercia Second Ward
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?
- We Fixed the Problem!
- 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
Best big blog:
Best group blog:
- Wheat & Tares
- Juvenile Instructor
- Faith Promoting Rumor
- Zelophehad’s Daughters
- Exponent II
- Peculiar People
- Main Street Plaza
- Segullah
- No More Strangers
- FEMWOC
Best podcast:
- Mormon Matters
- Mormon Stories
- 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
- Mormon News Report
- Exploring Mormon Thought
- The Exponent II podcast
Best Mormon Facebook community or discussion forum:
- FMH FB Group
- StayLDS.com/forum
- exMormon reddit
- Mormon Hub
- New Order Mormon
- Mormon Stories Facebook Group
- Mormons Building Bridges
- Exponent II group
Write-in Category
- Best post series last year: Ugo Perego’s Intro to DNA and Mormonism
- Best Mormon activism of 2017: Stop Bishops’ Sexually Explicit Interviews with Kids and Teens
Wheat & Tares 
Best Podcast? I wanted to select them all since I am a podcastaholic!
With Happy Hubby and Andrew S for best comments it was hard to pick just one.
AndrewS and I shouldn’t be in the same category. AndrewS is always going to have a deeper more thoughtful comment. Mine are more likely to be puns or sarcasm. I don’t learn anything new from my comments 🙂
@HappyHubby I’m just glad that Mormon podcasting isn’t dead.
Signed,
A fellow addict with a backlog of 89 podcasts and 500 episodes to get through.
Mike for worst commenter!