The annual Unitarian Universalist blog awards process has begun again. I do not plan to nominate or vote. There are something like 200 Unitarian Universalist blogs, but I can only seem to keep up with two or three them on a regular basis. So I don’t feel qualified to say which is the year’s best blog, or which is the year’s best blog entry.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I feel guilty that I don’t read lots of Unitarian Universalist blogs. But I like to read blogs written from other religious perspectives, like the blog entries aggregated at The Daily Scribe<\/a>, with authors who write from Jewish, pagan, progressive Christian, Emergent Christian, humanist, and Buddhist perspectives. That kind of thing broadens my mind, and my mind could use some broadening.<\/p>\n And I am just as likely to read non-religious blogs: my two sisters’ blogs (Jean<\/a>, Abby<\/a>); the Horn Books Magazine blog Read Roger<\/a>; and maybe Boing Boing and Bad Astronomy<\/a>. Then there are the many newspapers, magazines, books, and the reading matter I get from Carol. Sitting on the dining room table waiting for me right now are: The Small-Mart Revolution<\/em> (from Carol), The Shorebird Guide<\/em>, rattapallax 13<\/em>, Asimov’s<\/em> science fiction magazine, The Post-Corporate World<\/em> (also from Carol), Boswell’s Life of Johnson<\/em>, a book on religions of the African diaspora, and Harvard Business Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n Not that I’ll get around to reading everything on that list. But I never wanted to be a specialist, and I can only do so much specialized reading. The pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus said, “Those who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.” Not that I’d count myself wise, but I’m certainly not qualified to judge Unitarian Universalist blogs.<\/p>\n