We wanted to give you an update on the Wheaties and Tarefic Awards! As you can see, we are short on nominations for Best Apologetic Blog, Best New Blog, Most Memorable Comment, Funniest Thread, Best Poetry, Best Apologetic Post, and Most Missed Personality (though I suspect that Firetag should win in a landslide–we really miss him.) Feel free to continue nominations for another 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 put it in brackets to avoid our spam catcher. And don’t forget that Main Street Plaza is getting ready to host their awards too.
Here are our 2013 Wheaties categories:
Best big blog:
By Common Consent
Feminist Mormon Housewives
Best group blog:
Wheat & Tares
Juvenile Instructor
Faith Promoting Rumor
Zelophehad’s Daughters
Doves and Serpents
Exponent II
Peculiar People
With Real Intent
Worlds Without End
Main Street Plaza
Rational Faiths
Mormon Mentality
Times and Seasons
Modern Mormon Men
Segullah
No More Strangers
Best humorous blog:
Just Say Amen Already
Expert Textperts
Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer
The Bunyion
Best podcast:
Mormon Matters
Mormon Stories
Mormon Expression
FMH Podcast
Mormon Expositor
The Cultural Hall
Engaging Gospel Doctrine
Best apologetic blog:
Best new blog (first published in 2013):
Exploring Sainthood
Aspiring Mormon Women
No More Strangers
Best solo blog:
Agitating Faithfully
Nickel on the Nacle
Mormon History Guy (Russell Stevenson)
Gaily Mormon
Keepapitcinhin (Ardis Pashall)
Best new blogger:
Mike C, Zelophehad’s Daughters
Melody, Exponent
Nate, Wheat and Tares
Best blog layout/graphics:
Doves & Serpents
Rational Faiths
Best overall blogger:
Winterbuzz, Feminist Mormon Housewives
April, Exponent
Rebecca J., By Common Consent
Heather, Doves & Serpents
Angela C/Hawkgrrrl, Wheat & Tares and By Common Consent
Best commenter:
April, Exponent
Melody, Rational Faiths
Most memorable comment:
Funniest thread:
Best post title:
Ziff, Zelophehad’s Daughters: “Which is it? Did Jesus say so or are you going to use your Jedi mind tricks?”
Paul Barker, Rational Faiths: ”So What Kind of Underwear Are You Wearing?“
Tracy M, By Common Consent: ”Date Me, NOT My Uterus“
Angela C, By Common Consent: ”If Modest is Hottest, It’s Not Modest“
Madelyn, Expert Textperts: “Modest is Hottest: A Latter-day Oxymoron”
Best humorous post:
Brent, Doves & Serpents: ”Modesty for Men“
Mike C., Zelophehad’s Daughters: “Gospel Math“
Shawn Tucker, Modern Mormon Men: ”I’m Joni Hilton’s Computer, and I’d Just Like to Say I’m Sorry“
Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer: “GREAT AND SPACIOUS BLOGGING” SITE ALLOWS LDS LIBERALS, CONSERVATIVES CHANCE TO MOCK, POINT FINGERS AT “MOST MORMONS”
Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer: ”CHURCH UPDATES PAINTINGS FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY“
Melyngoch, Zelophehad’s Daughters: “Lynnette”
Brett and Casey, By Common Consent: “Authoritative Predictions for 2013″
Jacob, By Common Consent: “The Word of Internet Wisdom”
Lynnette, Zelphehad’s Daughers: “A Mormon Story”
The Bouncer, Zelophehad’s Daughters: “The Bouncer in Wonderland”
Mike C., Zelophehad’s Daughters: “Area Mormon Called to Serve as a Facebook Member”
Joanna, Feminist Mormon Housewives: “Now that it’s legal! . . . Wedding Tips for our LGBT Friends”
Hawkgrrrl, Wheat & Tares: ”Mormon Jargon“
Paul Barker, Rational Faiths: ”Young Women – Please Help My Sons Stay Clean & Pure“
Thomas Hatton, Rational Faiths: ”Absurd Moments in Mormon Art Part 1 The Anti-Fashion-Christ“
Scott B., By Common Consent: ”CTR: Crap That’s Real“
Thomas Hatton, Rational Faiths: ”Mormons and Mullets“
Brett Hurst, Expert Textperts: ”The Transition of Terror: A Lovecraftian Personal Essay”
Julie M. Smith’s, Times & Seasons: “What the Smith Boys Said This Year”
Best satirical post:
“Lucy H. Westmoor, PhD”, Captain Mormon: ”An Old LDS Woman Talks to Young Single Adult Brothers About Intimacy“
Melyngoch, Zelophehad’s Daughters: “Hi! I’m super righteous, and I’m against women’s ordination”
Bro. Jake, Wheat & Tares: ”Brother Jake: Mormons are Not Sexist“
Jeff Swift, Rational Faiths: ”An Open Letter to Mormon Women: A Modesty Proposal“
Casey, Expert Textperts: “Bacon and the Future of Traditional Dinner“
Best historical post:
Allan Davis, Expert Texperts: “Playing Lamanite and Saving Whiteness: Embodying Racial Projects in the Mormon Miracle Pageant”
wvs, BCC: Sunday Evenings with the D&C Section 132
Paul Barker, Rational Faiths: ”Blacks and the Priesthood Revisited“
Leah Marie, Rational Faiths: ”If the Sisters Should Have Faith to Heal“
Russell Stevenson, Rational Faiths: ”Black Mormon, the Story of Elijah Ables“
Best post series:
Brent, Doves & Serpents: Mormon in the Cheap Seats
Kimberly, Feminist Mormon Housewives: Connecting with Heavenly Mother
Elisothel, Feminist Mormon Housewives: Fembryology
wvs, By Common Consent: Sunday Evenings with the D&C Section 132.
Allan Davis, Expert Texperts: Playing Lamanite and Saving Whiteness: Embodying Racial Projects in the Mormon Miracle Pageant
wheatmeister, Wheat & Tares, weekend polls
Doves & Serpents, Ride to Church
Rational Faiths: Heavenly Mother
Heather, Doves & Serpents: Equality Is Not a Feeling
Galdralag, Zelophehad’s Daughters: Top Ten Reasons I’m Grateful for my Mission
Mike C., Zelophehad’s Daughters: Making Space for Myself as an Uncorrelated Mormon
Best poetry post:
Brad, By Common Consent: ”Governor Grinch“
Melody Newey, Rational Faiths: “Dear Mother, I Am Here“
Best apologetic post:
Mike Barker, Rational Faiths: ”A Survery and Critique of the Different Resurrection Hypothesis“
Best spiritual post:
Elisothel, Feminist Mormon Housewives: “What’s it Really Like to Have a Vision?”
Kristine Haglund, By Common Consent: “Bound Hand and Foot with Graveclothes“
Best doctrinal post:
Beatrice, Zelophehad’s Daughter: “On Stewardship and Revelation”
Julie M. Smith, Times and Seasons: “Strands of Priesthood”
Erin, Doves & Serpents: “The Pharisee Within”
Deborah, Exp0nent: “Un-SexyModest: Or, What A Pope Can Teach Us About Modesty”
Ifrit, Feminist Mormon Housewives, “No Offense“
Rebecca J, By Common Consent, “Teaching Lessons on the Priesthood to Young Feminists“
Angela C, By Common Consent: ”Elder Bednar Talks about S-E-X“
mmiles, By Common Consent: ”The Implications of Encouraging Early Marriage in a Global Church“
Hawkgrrrl, Wheat & Tares: ”Mormon Maori Prophecies and Apostasy“
Jacob, By Common Consent: ”Missionaries and Exorcism“
Nate, Wheat & Tares: ”The Problem with Sex is Sacred“
April, Exponent: ”Ordination is the Answer to Correlation“
Mike Barker, No More Strangers: “Perspectives on Mormon Doctrine and LGBT Mormons”
Elisothel – FMH – Celebrating Women- A Mother’s Day Talk
Best post on church policy:
Ziff, Zelophehad’s Daughters: ”Who Wrote the Proclamation on the Family?”
Winterbuzz, Feminist Mormon Housewives: ”Family: Isn’t It About Time?“
BHodges, By Common Consent: “Top 3 Scriptural Justifications for Cultural Lag!”
Tracy M, By Common Consent: “On Education and Being a Woman”
Craig H., Times and Seasons: “How Things That Were Never Going to Change Have Sometimes Changed Anyway”
Ben Huff, Times and Seasons: “An Information-Rich Gospel: Correlation and the Growth and Maturation of the Church”
Kam, Doves & Serpents: “This Must Stop: A Call to End Sexually Invasive Interviews Between Priesthood Leaders and Minors in the LDS Church”
Angela C, By Common Consent: ”Female Garments: The Underwear Business“
Hawkgrrrl, Wheat & Tares: ”Does the Church Over-Subsidize BYU?“
Paul Barker, Rational Faiths: ”Pulling the Race Band-Aid Off“
Best personal post:
Kristine Haglund, By Common Consent: ”Why I’d Like to Hear a Woman Pray in General Conference“
Lynnette, Zelophehad’s Daughters: “Writing my Own Story“
Heather, Doves & Serpents: ”Motherhood is Not the Essence of my Personhood“
Jacob, By Common Consent, “Men, Sex and Modesty“
Tracy M, By Common Consent: ”Date Me, Not My Uterus“
Angela C, By Common Consent, “BYU Honor Code and Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment“
Douglas, Rational Faiths: ”So . . . When You Gonna Have Kids?“
Paul Barker, Rational Faiths: ”Sexual Assault in Mormon Patriarchy“
Madelyn, Expert Textperts: “Modest is Hottest: A Latter-day Oxymoron”
Jeremy Timothy, Rational Faiths: ”The Tortured Soul“
Emmett Rabs, Rational Faith: ”Into the Fire“
Bonnie Atkinson, Real Intent: “Why I think we’re having the wrong conversation“
mrayens, Exponent: “A God Like Me”
Lynnette, Zelophehad’s Daughters: “Memories of an Education Week Fanatic”
Ardis Parshall, Keepapitchin: “50 Handkerchiefs”
Orwell, Mormon Mentality: “Dear President Dalton – I have a daughter…”
Mike C, Feminist Mormon Housewives: “I hope they call you on a (feminist) mission”
Rebecca J, By Common Consent: “My Primary Story”
Thunderchicken, Feminist Mormon Housewives: “A Short History of My Breasts”
Nathaniel Givens, Times and Seasons: “The Abyss of Nothing and Everything”
fMhLisa, Feminist Mormon Housewives: “When you ask for bread and receive a stone. Forgiving Our Leaders and Finding Ourselves”
Pandora, Zelophehad’s Daughters: “Welcome to the Temple”
Michael Barker, Rational Faiths: ”Wing Tipped Shoes“
Viliami Pauni, Rational Faiths: “One Tongan’s Journey with Church History“
Best faith crisis post:
Russell Stevenson, Mormon History Guy: ”Faith Crises: A Believer’s Guide“
Michael Barker, Rational Faiths: “25 Things You’re Doing Wrong”
Best current events post:
Erin, Doves & Serpents: “A Letter from the Past for Today”
Russell Stevenson, Rational Faiths: ”Housewife Danites: Denver Snuffer and the Suburban Underground“
Heidi Doggett, Rational Faiths: “Parallel” Conference Sessions? Fox News, A Press Release, and a Dictionary“
Paul Barker, Rational Faiths: “The Dead vs. the Living“
Paul Barker, Rational Faiths: ”New Years Resolutions for the LDS Church – Top Twenty Something Changes“
Kevin Barney, By Common Consent: ”No Longer Stooopid“
Guy Templeton, Wheat & Tares: ”New Temple Movies“
Jeff Spector, Wheat & Tares: ”The Latest Mormon Murder Trial: The MacNeill Murder“
Mormon Heretic, Wheat & Tares: ”Mandela Praised; Brigham Thrown Under the Bus“
Jerilyn Pool, Rational Faiths: ”Wrong Message – A Response to: FYI (if you’re a teenage girl)“
Michael Barker, Rational Faiths: ”When the Option Becomes the Expectation“
Viliami Pauni, Rational Faiths: ”Race and the Priesthood“
Best Commentary/Response to the Race and the Priesthood release:
Corbin Volluz, Rational Faiths: ”Why No Apology for the Priesthood Ban?“
Paul Barker, Rational Faiths: ”Changing the Word of God“
Best book/article review:
Angela C, By Common Consent: “Mormon Marriage Equality” (Book: Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In”)
Edward Jones, Rational Faiths: “Satan’s Plan 2.0: Deseret Book Edition” (Book: Wendy Watson Nelson’s “Not Even Once Club”)
Stephen Carter, Wheat & Tares: ”How to Stop Writing Like a Mormon Using This One Weird Trick” (Book: Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game”)
Hawkgrrrl, Wheat & Tares: ”Advice to Mormons from a Non-Mormon” (Chrisy Ross’s “To Mormons, With Love”)
Mormon Heretic, Wheat & Tares: ”Why Snuffer Got Exe’d” (Book: Denver Snuffer’s “Passing the Heavenly Gift”)
Paul Barker, Rational Faiths: ”Fine Tuning the Message” (Book: Gospel Principles Manual)
Michael Barker, Rational Faiths: ”Joseph smith’s Polygamy, Volume 1: History – A Book Review”
Best contribution to the Bloggernacle in 2013:
Best contribution to interfaith dialogue:
Jana Riess: The Twible
Fire Tag’s regular posts at Wheat & Tares
Best Mormon Facebook community or discussion forum:
FMH FB Group
StayLDS.com/forum
exMormon reddit
Mormon Hub (FB Group)
New Order Mormon (NOM)
Best Mormon Activism:
Ordain Women
Women Asking to Attend Priesthood Session; Session Being Broadcast Live for First Time Ever
Beardliness is Next to Godliness
Second Annual Pants to Church
“The Not Even Once Club,” aka Satan’s Plan in children’s book form (The multi-blog efforts to point out the doctrinal problems posed by this book)
The Tracy McKay FMH Scholarship for Single Mormon Mothers
Family First Weddings - attempt to change the one year waiting period for temple sealings
Sick RMs - providing better support and understanding for missionaries who become seriously ill while serving
Let Women Pray
Mormon Women Bare
Write-in category:
Ziff, Zelophehad’s Daughters: Commissioner of the Bloggernacle
Mike C, Zelophehad’s Daughters: Best first sentence of a blog post: “The idea for this blog post came to me, as many of my best ideas do, while I was thinking about sex in church.”
And here are the categories for the Tarefic Awards!
Worst Mormon Internet Drama:
Cynthia L, By Common Consent: ”Tareific Scandal Rocks Bloggernacle” (the accidental awarding of BCC over FMH and the ensuing tongue-in-cheek meme war. Steve Evans responds. FMH fires back. Oh, that all internet dramas were equally entertaining to the audience as to the combatants!)
Daniel Peterson’s ongoing drama over Mormon liberals, John Dehlin, and his totally unrelated career change
The Tom Phillips October Surprise that didn’t happen
Denver Snuffer’s Excommunication
Anything involving an “Open Letter”
Biggest Soapbox Commenter:
Donnette Moore (aka Elizabeth Johnston) and various sock puppets on Let Women Pray and other Mormon Feminist sites. She was outed after having several conversations with herself about the topic.
Will at Wheat & Tares
Most missed personality on the Bloggernacle:
Fire Tag, Wheat & Tares
Worst Mormon Activism:
Sheri Dew’s book on Women & the Priesthood right after women were denied entrance to the Priesthood Session
Facebook event: “Support our Priesthood Holders” in response to Ordain Women
Worst Comments:
Clayton Clark: “Excommunicate all of them. Sometimes you need to shoot a hostage. You fight against God you will surly [sic] receive your reward.” (from the I Am LDS thread where they shared an article about the church announcing it would deny entrance to the priesthood session for Ordain Women.)
Jettboy, on gay marriage: “Hopefully Utah Mormons, if no one else, will become far less tolerant of gays and those who support them in the Church. They got their secular “freedom,” and can now lay in the bed they made. You call yourself gay? You have no business coming to church unless you repent and reject that you are one. Then you need to prove it by getting married and staying that way. Mormon gays and supporters think its going to be easier now. Nope. Its going to become much harder. You used to be a nuisance. Now you are a mortal enemy.”
Write-in category:
If you think of another category we haven’t listed, feel free to nominate! Also, please spread the word! Some blogs didn’t know about the nominations until it was too late.