Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Mormonism Live is honored to host the 2025 Brodie Awards, an annual event dedicated to recognizing excellence, courage, insight, and impact in the world of Mormon-related scholarship, commentary, media, and creative work.
Named after historian Fawn M. Brodie, the Brodie Awards exist to spotlight voices—both established and emerging—who meaningfully contribute to public understanding of Mormonism. These awards are about acknowledging thoughtful analysis, original research, compelling storytelling, and principled engagement with a complex tradition.
The 2025 Brodie Awards Ceremony will feature the 2025 award categories and nominees, an announcement of the 2025 winner in each category, and shining a light on the impact of the winner's work.
Our goal is simple: to elevate quality creators around the topic of Mormonism and raise awareness of creators who are contributing something genuinely valuable to the broader discussion around Mormonism.
For those interested in the history of these awards please check out the Sunstone presentation about history of the Brodie Awards found here: mainstreetplaza.com/2024/08/08/post-mormon-media-past-present-and-future
The Brodie Awards were founded and are operated by Main Street Plaza, A Community for Anyone Interested in Mormonism. This year's ceremony Hosted by Bill Reel and Radio Free Mormon on Mormonism Live!
Links to all Brodie Awards Nominations
mainstreetplaza.com/2025/12/03/collecting-nominations-for-the-2025-brodie-awards
Mormonism Live is honored to host the 2025 Brodie Awards, an annual event dedicated to recognizing excellence, courage, insight, and impact in the world of Mormon-related scholarship, commentary, media, and creative work.
Named after historian Fawn M. Brodie, the Brodie Awards exist to spotlight voices—both established and emerging—who meaningfully contribute to public understanding of Mormonism. These awards are about acknowledging thoughtful analysis, original research, compelling storytelling, and principled engagement with a complex tradition.
The 2025 Brodie Awards Ceremony will feature the 2025 award categories and nominees, an announcement of the 2025 winner in each category, and shining a light on the impact of the winner's work.
Our goal is simple: to elevate quality creators around the topic of Mormonism and raise awareness of creators who are contributing something genuinely valuable to the broader discussion around Mormonism.
For those interested in the history of these awards please check out the Sunstone presentation about history of the Brodie Awards found here: mainstreetplaza.com/2024/08/08/post-mormon-media-past-present-and-future
The Brodie Awards were founded and are operated by Main Street Plaza, A Community for Anyone Interested in Mormonism. This year's ceremony Hosted by Bill Reel and Radio Free Mormon on Mormonism Live!
Links to all Brodie Awards Nominations
mainstreetplaza.com/2025/12/03/collecting-nominations-for-the-2025-brodie-awards

![Elder Christofferson Needs To Step Down!
Radio Free Mormon details the circumstances leading up to the guilty plea last Thursday in federal court by Wade Christofferson to CSA charges. What did D. Todd Christofferson know, and when did he know it? And based on the little information the Church has disclosed, D. Todd definitely knew about the danger his brother posed to small children at least as recently as 2020 or 2021. Which means if D. Todd had reported it to police at that time, the child abuse to which Wade just pleaded guilty would never have happened! This is inexcusable. It is definitely time for D. Todd Christofferson to step down from his position in the First Presidency, and to resign from his office as apostle! (This is a segment from the 7-13-26 Mormon Newscast previously aired.) [RFM 466]
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![This Changes EVERYTHING!
In this amazing episode of RFM, we get three podcasts in one! The first deals with comments collected from apologetic podcasts that may end up being useful to John Dehlin in defending himself in court against the Mormon Church! The second deals with the 600-Year Prophecy of Christs Birth found in the Book of Mormon, and how a close examination of that one prophecy can clarify how we read the Book of Mormon. Finally, RFM tells the story of how it is he actually changed a word in the text of the Book of Mormon! This is not clickbait. This really happened! This one you wont want to miss! [RFM 476]
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![New Research Changes EVERYTHING!!!
Dr. Randall Bell brings fresh new research to Mormon Studies in this fascinating episode of Radio Free Mormon! Apologists claim the presence of an ancient Hebrew literary form called chiasmus proves the Book of Mormon to be ancient. Not so fast, says Dr. Bell, who shares with us a much more plausible source for chiasmus in the Book of Mormon than being put there by ancient American Jews whom DNA studies show didnt exist. This is an episode you will want to not only watch, but share with your friends and family! The more we study the Book of Mormon, the more apparent it is a product of early 19th Century America! [RFM 445]
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![Mormon Gets Creamed in Debate!
RFM is joined by esteemed co-counsel Kolby Reddish to dissect Jacob Hansens recent debate with Allie Beth Stuckey of The Blaze. Strangely, Jacob seems to want to talk about anything other than Mormonism. His efforts to make Mormonism sound like Protestantism grow increasingly bizarre. But Allie is not going to let him get away with his typical Jacob Hansen obfuscation, and neither are we! We are left with the question of why is it that Jacob Hansen wants to defend Mormonism while being completely unwilling to talk about Mormonism itself. You wont want to miss this one! [RFM 456]
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![Research IS the Answer!
RFM is joined by Dr. Don Cohen who outlines his fascinating journey from the Jewish faith in which he was born, to his conversion to Mormonism, and from there to where he has landed today. Throughout, Dons allegiance to evidence and research has been his guiding star. Join us as Dr. Cohen explains his spiritual journey; a journey that is still continuing! [RFM 463]
Don Cohen has a short series of Blog posts, where he examines a number of topics that are important to him. Here is a link to one of them:
The Examined Life
https://tel-theexaminedlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/value-of-doubt-and-danger-of-certainty.html
Don also has a paper at this site where he puts down in writing his examination of LDS Truth Claims!
https://ia601802.us.archive.org/24/items/examining-church-claims/ExaminingChurchClaims.pdf
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