{"id":1157,"date":"2008-01-19T23:20:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T04:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2008-01-19T23:26:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T04:26:42","slug":"my-narrow-and-ill-informed-view-best-uu-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"My narrow and ill-informed view: best UU blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The amazing UUpdater has begun to get ready for the annual Unitarian Universalist (UU) blog awards, and you can follow the process at the UUpdater<\/a> blog. Last year, I said that I was completely incompetent to vote for the best UU blog, and that goes double this year — not only are there more UU blogs out there this year, I have even less time to read all the blogs I’d like to read. But this year, I decided that in spite of the fact that my views are narrow and ill-informed, I’m going to tell you my choices for best UU blogs whether you want to hear them or not. Here goes nothing:<\/p>\n

— I have long thought that Colleen at Arbitrary Marks<\/a> offers the best theological writing out there. I don’t always agree with Colleen, but I consistently come away from reading her blog with challenging new insights and new ideas for challenging books I really want to read. If I need a sermon topic, this is the blog I read.<\/p>\n

— Speaking of UU blogs which challenge me, most UU bloggers occupy a political position between John Edwards and Bill Richardson<\/a>, which is to say, not very challenging really. But two UU bloggers do challenge me and make me think: Bill Baar on the right<\/a>, and Will Shetterly far to the left<\/a>. In the end, I have to give the nod for best UU political commentary to Will — sorry Bill, but after all Will is a professional writer and I promise it has nothing to do with the fact that I’m as far to the left as he is and agree with him about most everything except his analysis of racism and capitalism.<\/p>\n

— When it comes to the “Best UU Themed Blog,” for me there is only one choice. Aside from being witty, urbane, and loving local food, Scott Wells at Boy in the Bands<\/a> is the best UU blogger when it comes to Universalism<\/a>. Universalism is what keeps me going when the going gets tough, and I often find myself turning to Scott for my Universalism fix.<\/p>\n

— As for the best UU blog written by a minister, after all these years I still like Phil’s Little Blog on the Prairie<\/a>. I like his ideas, I like his prose, and I like his emphasis on religious education.<\/p>\n

— When it comes to best writing overall, I kinda wanted to vote for Henry David Thoreau’s blog<\/a>. Except that you could argue convincingly that Thoreau wasn’t really a Unitarian, and he’s dead. Besides which, if I’m honest I have to say I read Hafidha Sofia at Never Say Never<\/a> more often than I read Thoreau; I consistently enjoy reading her prose, no matter what she writes about.<\/p>\n

— Can we do Best U.S. Presidential Campaign Blog by a UU<\/a>? No? Oh well, I guess there wouldn’t be that many contestants.<\/p>\n

— And my final vote is for The Blue Chalice \/ El Caliz Azul<\/a>, in the category of The UU Blog I Will Miss the Most Now That It’s Gone. Thanks for a great four years, Enrique.<\/p>\n

And there you have it: my narrow and ill-informed views on the best UU blogs for the past year, views which you would do well to ignore completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The amazing UUpdater has begun to get ready for the annual Unitarian Universalist (UU) blog awards, and you can follow the process at the UUpdater blog. Last year, I said that I was completely incompetent to vote for the best UU blog, and that goes double this year — not only are there more UU […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}