Coffee Hour

Erik David says:

I would like to nominate FUUSE.com for the best UU-Themed Community and best design awards. Some of FUUSE's features are private and as such will not be eligible for these awards, but most of the articles, writing submissions, and article comments are viewable to non-registered visitors to the site.

Shawn says:

Nomination for:

http://www.americanbuddhist.org/articles/jeffwilson/

Shawn says:

Best writting nomination:
A Virginia UU in King George's War
http://mysite.verizon.net/res8mk5r/uublog/

Shawn says:

Sorry-

Nomination for best UU-Themed Blog by a Unitarian Universalist:
Jeff Wilson / American Buddhist Study Center
http://www.americanbuddhist.org/articles/jeffwilson/

I missed the specification on my first nomination. So, so sorry.

Jeff Wilson says:

While I appreciate the nomination, I think I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that my American Buddhist Study Center blog best goes under the category of Non-UU-Themed Blog by a Unitarian Universalist, since it is Buddhist-themed and has only intermittently mentioned UUism. I suspect that's what Shawn meant, and that a typo was accidentally committed. And let me second the nomination for FUUSE, I think it's an impressive site.

Shawn says:

Thanks Jeff. Yes, that's what I originally intended to classify it under after I initially forgot to classify it at all - a little Kerryism...[I am only kidding folks!]

Anyway, I really enjoyed your site's layout and content. So, I nominated it.

Chalicechick says:

Best UU-themed blog---Prophet Motive (Even when Tom writes about politics, I enjoy it. This is saying a lot.)

Best Non-UU Themed blog— A Virginian UU in King George's War (To be honest, the theological writings are often nothing new, but when he just writes about his daily life, I'm riveted.)

Best UU themed community— FUUSE

Best writing— Unity (Unity was a hair away from "best UU blog." I had trouble deciding, then went with PM because it is updated more.)

Best links-- MyIrony (MyIrony is neither a uu blog nor a non-UU blog, really, but I still really like it and it sends me really interesting places.)

Best design--- Ibeth wins because of the photos. I like good photography, but Beth doesn't just run photos because she can. There's always a point. (Though Presbyopic Myopia always looks nice, too)

Best Religious writing: Unity's Advent series

Blog that makes me feel like I'm sitting in a bar next to the writer,
who has had just one too many and is ranting a bit, yet I'm having a
great time: Boy in the Bands

Best source of GA workshop ideas: Adventures in Small Group ministry

Best single GA workshop idea: Expanding on Adventures in Small Group ministry's post on discussion groups and tragedy into a workhop on services in response to tragedy, especially one that focuses on practical issues.

Best overall commentary on everything: -- MyIrony

Best blog that claims to be a UU blog but is really a politics blog,
but I read it anyway even though I tend to bitch about blogs that do
just that: Rick's Rants.

Best blogs/communitys that really deserve awards, but that I didn't vote for
because I think it would look like conflict of interest: Philocrites , Coffee Hour and Beliefnet.

Best Wayside pulpit:
"" Alone, we can only move buckets. But if we work together, we can
drain rivers. ""
--The Brady Bunch Movie
(Which never appeared in any blog, I just like it)

Best new blog: Ministrare.

Unity says:

Oh, man! There are some good ones and I need to go to a meeting, etc...

I like Boy in the Bands for UU-Themed Blog.

I would like to nominate Philocrates for something but do not know if we are allowed.

Aw, what the heck! Philocrates for not always UU-Themed Blog.

Chris Walton says:

For what it's worth, I had imagined the "UU-themed blogs" to include any blog that regularly comments on Unitarian Universalism — making my own Philocrites eligible! — and that "non-UU-themed blogs" were for those with a barely evident or only very occasional focus on Unitarian Universalism (like Juan Cole's Informed Comment or Dan Kennedy's Media Log).

chutney says:

And along that line, Chris, I'd like to nominate Philocrites for best UU blog along with Unity's nom.

Chris Walton says:

Also worth nominating in the best UU-themed community: the LiveJournal Unitarian Universalist community. I've never quite understood the LiveJournal phenomenon, and I've had no easy time trying to interest the LiveJournal UUs in our blogging community, so it may be that LiveJournalers don't really think of themselves as bloggers. Who knows? Anyway, I find the LiveJournal community as interesting as the Beliefnet UU forums — and it seems to draw from a distinctive range of ages and theological perspectives you don't find among the bloggers or over at Beliefnet.

Chris Walton says:

Best UU blogs we can't nominate because they were taken offline in 2004: Gatheringwater and Across, Beyond, Through. Those were some good reads!

Chris Walton says:

My nominations for best non-UU-themed blogs by UUs:

Informed Comment
University of Michigan Middle East Studies professor Juan Cole isn't just one of the most-read commentators on the war in Iraq and one of the highest-traffic blogs out there; back in the way-back he was also pretty seriously involved in early UU efforts on the Web, but I have never come across a more recent mention of Unitarian Universalism on his site.

Respectful of Otters
Rivka's blog included only one post in 2004 that explicitly discussed her Unitarian Universalism, but her healthcare-and-feminism blog has been one of the leading public affairs blogs people point to when there are complaints about the male domination of politics blogs.

Media Log
Boston Phoenix senior writer Dan Kennedy is so sharp it scares me — and his media criticism blog deserves a much larger audience than the large audience it currently has. He has written twice for UU World in recent years.

Pericles
Doug Muder's diary at Daily Kos has only been active for two months, but he picked the best place to launch his political commentary. This is one to watch.

These are big-time blogs, read by considerably more people than any of us who focus more on religion, and I'd love to honor them (and others of their caliber) for being just so good.

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