Blogroll
Other links
Religion links
Blogroll
Updated February, 2024
Arts, music, books
- Children and Books — Children’s librarian Abby Kingsbury
- Hawaii Music Supply uke podcast — The numbered videos (weekly)
- Media Nation — Journalist Dan Kennedy (daily)
- Medieval Manuscripts Provenance — Independent scholar (12/yr)
- Micro Model Railroad Cartel — Scale model hobbyists (irregular)
- Musical Assumptions — Composer Elaine Fine on new music (2/wk)
- Ongoing History of Protest Music — Self explanatory (4/mo)
- Orange Crate Art — English prof Michael Leddy (daily)
- Poetry Daily — A new poem each day (daily)
Organizations
- Deeplinks Blog — Electronic Frontier Foundation
- O Say Can You See — National Museum of American History blog
- Shorelines — From the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Religion and Philosophy
- Black Issues in Philosophy — Posts from the APA blog (1/mo)
- Congregational Consulting — Congregational consultants hold forth (1/wk)
- Rev. Scott Wells — Universalism and liberal Christianity (1/mo?)
- Indian Philosophy Blog — Group blog on Indian philosophy (seems to be dying)
- Still I Am One — A “Quakerly-inclined Unitarian” in Great Britain (1/wk)
- Sabbath Walks Blog — Long-time UU/UCC blogger’s latest blog
- Velveteen Rabbi — A rabbi’s long-running blog (2/wk)
- Warp, Weft, and Way — Group blog on Chinese philosophy (1-4/wk)
Sf/f
- Ansible — David Langford’s venerable sff fanzine (1/mo)
- Camestros Felapton — Sf and other stuff (daily?)
- Charlie’s Diary — SF author Charles Stross (2/mo)
- eFanzines — Aggregator of online fanzines; no hectographs need apply
- File 770 — Sf and f news blog (daily +)
Social sciences & Green
- Boston in 1775 — Writer J. L. Bell on the American Revolution near Boston (daily)
- Everyday Sociology Blog — Group blog by a bunch of sociologists (1/wk)
- Heretic, Rebel, a Thing To Flout — Patrick Murfin: historian, union member, and leftist (daily)
- Labor Notes — News and notes about organized labor
- Reclaiming Paradise — Gardening in Scotland (2x/mo)
Web logs (links & personal)
- New England Folklore — Weird stuff about New England (1/mo?)
- Old Writer on the Block — Australian science writer
- Pluralistic — Cory Doctorow’s daily links (daily)
- TYWKIWDBI — Things You Wouldn’t Know If We Didn’t Blog Intermittently (daily)
Dead but not forgotten
- FafBlog — The adventures of Fafnir, Giblets, and Medium Lobster, 2003-2011
Other Links
Updated April, 2023
Bookstores
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- Beacon Press — Independent publisher, religion and more
- The Bookshop — Antiquarian books
- City Lights Bookstore — Poetry and leftist books
- Haymarket Books — Leftist publisher
- Powell’s — Independent bookstore selling used books
- Seminary Coop Bookstore — Academic books and more
Entertainment and news
- Bird cams — From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Fish Island — Ah, those were the days
- Religion News Service — News about religions
Green citizen science & participatory science
- eBird — (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) Bird counts
- Global phenology networks — Listing of active projects
- Global Pollinator Watch — (Earthwatch) Pollinator observations
- The Great Sunflower Project — (SFSU) Pollinator observations
- iNaturalist — (Calif. Acad. of Science) Now a huge database mined by biologists
- Nature’s Notebook — (USA National Phenology Network) National phenology program
- Signs of the Seasons — (U. Maine) Maine phenology program
Green New England
- Gallformers — Gall ID, covers New England
- Go Botany: Native Plant Trust — Key to N.E. vascular plants
- Journal of Urban Ecology — from Oxford Academic Press
Green on the South Shore
- Appalachian Mountain Club — Occasional day hikes on the South Shore
- Cohasset Conservation Trust — Including trail maps of some properties
- Friends of Wompatuck — Mostly mountain biking, but good trail map
- Holly Hill Farm — Cohasset nonprofit with an educational mission
- Mass Audubon — Sanctuaries in Marshfield and Duxbury, programs in area
- Mass. Butterfly Club — Resources and news
- Nature Conservancy — Owns conservation restrictions in various communities
- North and South Rivers Watershed Alliance — Various conservation activities
- Trustees of Reservations — Owns properties in Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate
Religion Links
Updated November, 2022
World religions
- Pluralism Project — Tracking world religions in the U.S.; careful and balanced articles.
World religion texts
- 101 Zen Stories — The 1919 collection compiled by Nyogen Senzaki
- Internet Sacred Text Archive — Comprehensive selection of public domain translations of major religious texts
- Koran — An older translation with decent search engine
- Theoi Greek Mythology — Texts on ancient Greek religions
Christianity
- Religion Online — Thousand of high quality articles, mostly on Christianity
- Oremus Bible browser — My fave Bible search engine, with NRSV and KJV.
Unitarian Universalism
- First Parish in Cohasset — Where I serve as minister
- Unitarian Universalist Association — The denomination with which I am affiliated
- LREDA — Liberal Religious Educator’s Association
- ICUU — International Council of Unitarians and Universalists
Religious liberals
- Friends General Conference — Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the unprogrammed tradition
- Reform Judaism — Reform Judaism in the U.S.
- Reconstructing Judaism — Reconstructionist Judaism in the U.S.
- Quaker Theology — Online journal
American Transcendentalist texts
- Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches — Non-fiction work, Project Gutenberg edition in epub and plain text
- Emily Dickinson, Poems — Project Gutenberg edition in epub and plain text
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Complete Works — Along with other RWE information
- Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century — Project Gutenberg edition in epub and plain text
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School — Project Gutenberg edition in epub and plain text
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Record of a School — Peabody’s account of Bronson Alcott’s school, Internet Archive edition
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Project Gutenberg edition in epub and plain text
- Jones Very, Essays and Poems — Page images at Making of America Web site
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass — Multiple editions
Unitarian and Universalist historic texts
- Hosea Ballou, Treatise on Atonement — The definitive statement of classic North American Universalism, 1805
- William Elley Channing, Unitarian Christianity — One of the first sermons to claim the name Unitarian; 1819
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity School Address — Key statement of Transcendentalist Unitarianism, 1838
Unitarian and Universalist history
- Biographies of famous Unitarians, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalists — Best UU bio site
- Heralds of a Liberal Faith — Biographies of Unitarian ministers (not scholarly, but an excellent resource)
Vol. I, The Prophets — Vol. II, The Pioneers — Vol. III, The Preachers — Vol. IV, The Pilots - Unitarian, Universalist, and UU Yearbooks — crucial resource for historical research
- The Pacific Unitarian — Important source for West Coast Unitarian history. (Because Google collects your data in evil ways, where possible I’ve linked to copies hosted by the Internet Archive and by Princeton University.)
Vol. 1, 1891-1893 — vol. 2-3, 1893-1895 — vol. 4-5, 1895-1897 — vol. 6-7, 1897-1899 — vol. 8-9, 1899-1901 (Andover Harvard Library says they’re working on digitizing these volumes) — vol. 10-11, 1901-1903 — vol. 12, 1903-1904 — vol. 12-13, 1903-1905 — vol. 14, 1905-1906 — vol. 15, 1906-1907 — vol. 16, 1907-1908 — vol. 17, 1908-1909 — vol. 18, 1909-1910 — vol. 19, 1910-1911 — vol. 20, 1911-1912 — vol. 21, 1912-1913 — vol. 22, 1913-1914 — vol. 23/24, 1914-1915 (volume no. increases mid-year) — vol. 25, 1915-1916— vol. 26, 1916-1917 — vol. 27, 1918 — vol. 28, 1919 — vol. 29, 1920 — vol. 30, 1921 — vol. 31, 1922 —vol. 32, 1923 — vol. 33, 1924
Miscellany
Updated November, 2020
- Tales of Plush Cthulhu — Watch out, Ms. Kitty Fluffington
- Inflation calculator — Using CPI data from Historical Statistics of the United States and Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.
- Plot a route — Mileage of running and walking routes
- Political Compass — More than left and right