31st Jan 2007
Thoughts About the UU Blog Awards
This is your mid-week reminder to vote in the UU Blog awards. You can vote here. You can see the on-going results here. You can become compulsively addicted to checking if anything has changed here.
It looks like my early lead in a couple categories completely disappeared. It’s sort of a strange process for me since I’m fiercely competitive, yet hate competition, and would rather just hold hands and sing kumbaya or go out for drinks or have a potluck. So, as with most things, I’m entirely conflicted at both an intellectual and emotional level.
It looks like PeaceBang and her two blogs are literally blowing everyone out of the water, which is actually a nice feeling, because they’re great blogs. The writing is excellent, the thoughts are complex, but clearly explained, and she seems like she would hold my hand (to sing kumbaya, or have a drink or potluck). And I should mention that PeaceBang’s Beauty Tips for Ministers is the reason I’m fully dressed at the moment.
Jess’s Journal continually provides a source of inspiration to me to keep any dialogue about work real and cut out the bullshit. Hence my post on the No Asshole Rule this morning.
Dan Harper’s Yet Another Unitarian Universalist regularly encourages me to dig deeper theologically as he does in his essays and musings.
Colleen Keating’s Arbitrary Marks is a lively discussion both of the big topics in ethics and in pop culture. She has a fun little competition with Making Chutney, another enjoyable read about workplace types of challenges.
ChaliceChick at the ChaliceBlog seems to me to be one of the archetype of UU-related sites, and you’ll enjoy the discussion about a screaming child on a plane. At least, I did. Another archetype? Philocrites. And he was the first person to affiliate me with the UUs via his guide to UU blogs. I’ve spent far too long looking at that photo of Boston on his blog and trying to orient myself in terms of the Houghton Mifflin building…..
The Journey chronicles Lizard Eater’s struggles and triumphs with her child’s cancer and calling to the ministry.
And then I’ve discovered some blogs that are new to me like Never Say Never To Your Traveling Self, Dame Olympia, and Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Roadshow. How thrilled am I to find more to read! Very.
What a pleasure to read so much (mostly) liberal religious writing about things that matter. And, of course, there are many, many more blogs, available here at UUpdates. I would list more, but I feel the need to acrue billable hours.
Thanks to UUpdates for hosting the competition and the running the news aggregator.
