{"id":771,"date":"2007-01-30T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T22:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2007-03-02T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:38:51","slug":"odds-and-ends-on-books-and-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Odds and ends on books and blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m usually not a big fan of Internet quizzes, but I couldn&#8217;t resist <a href=\"http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/skiffy.html\">&#8220;Which science fiction writer are you?&#8221;<\/a> I knew I was going to be Ursula K. LeGuin, and that&#8217;s who the quiz said I was. Except of course that I&#8217;m not, because I don&#8217;t have her talent and skill.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>New blog by a religious professional called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openthedoors.us\/\">Open the Doors: The Ministry of Welcome<\/a>, written by the thoughtful and insightful Chance Hunter. Chance has just become the Welcome Ministry Coordinator at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, Georgia. I&#8217;m looking forward to hearing about his thoughts and experiences in congregational hospitality and growth in a program\/corporate size congregation.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>I miss going to the Seminary Coop Bookstore in Chicago, which remains for my money the best academic bookstore in the United States &#8212; at least for the topics I&#8217;m interested in: religion, ecology, philosophy, cultural criticism. Today I discovered to my delight that their Web site now allows you to browse <a href=\"http:\/\/semcoop.booksense.com\/NASApp\/store\/IndexJsp?s=storepicks\">The Front Table<\/a>, the books they currently stock on the famous front table of their 59th St. store &#8212; there&#8217;s always one or two books on that front table that I decide to buy.<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>Will Shetterly, the Unitarian Universalist and science fiction writer who writes the blog &#8220;It&#8217;s All One Thing,&#8221; has recently stopped eating meat as part of his <a href=\"http:\/\/shetterly.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/three-steps-to-save-world.html\">Three Steps To Save the World<\/a>. Since that first post, he&#8217;s done a number of other posts on vegetarianism and veganism (<a href=\"http:\/\/shetterly.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/foolish-things-meat-eaters-say.html\">link<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/shetterly.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/30-years-to-save-world.html\">link<\/a>, and most recently <a href=\"http:\/\/shetterly.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/wisest-advice-about-eating.html\">link<\/a>). He&#8217;s convinced me &#8212; this week I went back to being a vegetarian. I still eat eggs and butter, and I&#8217;m willing to eat small amounts of locally-raised organic meat, but today&#8217;s meat and fishing  industries are way too polluting and non-sustainable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m usually not a big fan of Internet quizzes, but I couldn&#8217;t resist &#8220;Which science fiction writer are you?&#8221; I knew I was going to be Ursula K. LeGuin, and that&#8217;s who the quiz said I was. Except of course that I&#8217;m not, because I don&#8217;t have her talent and skill. ***** New blog by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,44,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture","category-culture-blogs","category-liberal-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}