Blogroll
Other links
Religion links
Blogroll
Updated January, 2025. I’m cutting way back on my screen time, so I’ve shortened this list dramatically.
Arts & culture
- Boston in 1775 — J. L. Bell on the American Revolution (nearly daily)
- Children and Books — Children’s librarian Abby Kingsbury (v. irregular)
- Heretic, Rebel, a Thing To Flout — Patrick Murfin: historian, union member, and leftist (nearly daily)
- Orange Crate Art — Michael Leddy comments on everything.
- TradFolk — English folk scene, “folk against fascism”
Music
- Got a Ukulele — Weekly reviews of ‘ukuleles, from a reliable source
- Hawaii Music Supply uke podcast — The numbered videos (weekly)
- Musical Assumptions — Composer Elaine Fine
- Renaissance Ukulele — Tablature (mostly inactive now)
- Scoring Notes — News about music notation software, etc.
- Ukulele Magazine — Weekly free online content
Philosophy and religion
- Black Issues in Philosophy — Posts from the APA blog (1/mo)
- Indian Philosophy Blog — Group blog on Indian philosophy (weekly?)
- Rev. Scott Wells — Universalism and liberal Christianity (irregular)
- Warp, Weft, and Way — Group blog on Chinese philosophy (1-4/wk)
Other Links
Updated April, 2023; online books section added June, 2025
Bookstores
Avoid the multinational conglomerates. Support independent booksellers. Support independent publishers. Support independent thinking!
- 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. Where I buy books online.
Books online
- Faded Page — Canadian public domain book site
- Online Books Page — Index of online books across multiple websites
- Project Gutenberg — US public domain book site
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 — A huge database of citizen observations mined by biologists
- Nature’s Notebook — (USA National Phenology Network) National phenology program
- Signs of the Seasons — (U. Maine) Maine phenology program
Green Worldwide
- ChemSec — Tracking chemical pollution
- Journal of Urban Ecology — from Oxford Academic Press
Green New England
- Appalachian Mountain Club — Conservation and outdoor activities in N.E.
- Gallformers — Gall ID, covers New England
- Go Botany: Native Plant Trust — Key to N.E. vascular plants
- Mass. Butterfly Club — Resources and news
- Nature Conservancy — Owns conservation restrictions across N.E.
- Trustees of Reservations — Owns properties across Mass.
Green 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
- North and South Rivers Watershed Alliance — Various conservation activities
Bryophytes
- Bryophyte Ecology, Janice M. Glime (2006-2017)
- Identification Guide to Selected Bryophytes of Conservation Concern Occurring in the Southern Appalachians, Univ. of N. Alabama
- Sample page from this site: Frullania morphology
- Illustrated Guide to Some Hornworts, Liverworts, and Mosses of E. Canada, Robert Ireland (1972)
- Moss Flora of the Maritime Provinces, Robert Ireland (1982)
- What is a bryophyte, Australian National Herbarium website
Music
- Paul Butler Music — Arrangements of Thoinot Arbeau & others
- Serpent Publications — Laura Conrad’s famous Ren music collection
- The Session — Tons of trad Irish tunes
Ukulele events
- International Ukulele Ceilidh — Odd numbered years in Oct., Nova Scotia
- Cohasset Ukulele Circle — Bimonthly, south of Boston, Mass
- New England Ukulele Festival — Link to May, 2025, event in Newton, Mass
- Nutmeg Ukulele Festival — Link to Sept., 2024, event in Simsbury, Conn.
- Ukulele Union of Boston — In-person & online events, greater Boston area
Ukulele info
- Storytime Ukulele — A librarian’s uke songs for little kids
- Ukulele Japan — All about the vibrant Japanese uke culture
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