After an 8 year hiatus, it’s time to welcome back the Tare-ific Wheaties Awards. These are essentially reader’s choice awards. As we approach the end of the year, it’s time once again to look at the best and worst of 2025. Let’s look back at 2025 for the funniest, most controversial, most spiritual, etc awards. Here are the categories we used 8 years ago! Some of the old blogs have been taken over by gambling sites, so we had to pare things down. If we missed something, let us know! Make your nominations (and yes, you can nominate yourself.) We’ve got lots of categories and will hold votes in a few weeks, after a few weeks of nominations. It says something that Wheat & Tares is still around, because many blogs aren’t. Has the Mormon Moment passed?
Tare-ific Awards
What was the worst Mormon Internet Drama in 2025?
Who was the biggest soapbox commenter of 2025?
Who was the worst commenter in 2025?
Tarefic Write-in category:
Now it’s time to vote for the best of Mormonism and the Bloggernacle!
We’ll start with a few standard nominations. (This used to be a longer list, but many have gone inactive.)
- Best blog:
- Best podcast:
- Gospel Tangents
- Leading Saints
Now on to the rest that we need nominations for!
Best Solo Blog:
What was the best Mormon activism of 2025?
What was the Best Bloggernacle Controversy last year?
Who was the Best overall blogger last year?
What was the best post title last year?
Who was the best commenter last year?
Funniest Post last year:
What was the Best new blog (first published in 2025)?
What was the Best faith crisis post last year?
Best contribution to the Bloggernacle in 2025:
What was the Best doctrinal post last year?
Best satirical post last year?
What was the best historical post this past year?
Best current events post last year:
What was the funniest blog last year?
What was the Best post on feminism last year?
Best personal post last year:
Who is the Best new blogger of 2025?
Best post on church policy of last year:
Best post series last year:
What was the Best Post on the Temple last year?
What was the best spiritual post last year?
What was the Best book/article/movie review last year?
Best contribution to interfaith dialogue:
Which of these write-ins is most deserving of a Wheaties Award?
Let’s hear your nominations!
Wheat & Tares 
Best Podcast nominees:
1-MormonLand
2-Church History Matters
Best Book nominees:
1- John Turner – JS biography
2- Jonathan Stapley – Holiness to the Lord
Another podcast nominee: Faith Matters
Best historian: Benjamin Park
And yes to MormonLand
Best historian and best YouTube history channel: Benjamin Park
And yes to the Mormon Land nomination
-Best Mormon history by a non-historian Podcast: Gospel Tangents
-Best historian of Mormon history podcast: Ben Park
-Best book: John Turner
-Best blog: Wheat &Tares
-Best Bible scholar podcast: Dan McClellen, and Data over Dogma
-Best Religious history podcast: Religion Before Breakfast
-Best feminist podcast: At Last She Said It
-Best feminist blogging platform: exponentii_blog on Instagram (not the magazine).
I have no idea which category this should into, but the docu-series An Inconvenient Faith ( https://www.youtube.com/@InconvenientFaith ) that finally released earlier this year should probably get something
For best podcast, I would also nominate Latter-day Faith: https://www.latterdayfaith.org/
I don’t think we need multiple nominations, but At Last She Said it is definitely fantastic too.
do only faithful/”current” LDS things count?
I feel like Britt Hartley’s No Nonsense Spirituality ( https://www.youtube.com/@nononsensespirituality ) probably should go somewhere, but admittedly, Britt is exmo and NNS is not trying to be “current” Mormon.
As I began reading the award categories, I think I heard thunderous crashing up in the hills. It may have been ancient Dutchmen bowling ninepins. It was like something had woken from a years-long slumber into the present. Not 20 years, but maybe seven or more.