Amazingly, I (and my guest-bloggers) have made the list of 15 finalists for Best Religious Blog in the 2005 Wizbang Blog Awards. I’m up against some pretty stiff competition, though. Please consider voting for me. Polls open on Monday, December 5, and will remain open until December 15.
Tonight I got to listen to fellow St. Blog’s parishoner Mark Shea speak. Some of his speech material came from his essay "The Critics Rave". It was a fun and interesting talk about countering the Church’s detractor’s questions with another question, "Who do you say that the Church is?", a play off of a question Jesus posed to the apostles.
After the talk, I introduced myself and chatted for a bit. I’m not entirely certain he actually knew what blog I write, but he was polite enough to pretend he did. 😉 I bought a copy of "Making Sense Out of Scripture
Anyhow, check out his blog and see what the fuss is all about. 🙂
John Seigenthaler Sr. is mad.
"Between May and September of 2005, a biographical article on Seigenthaler carried by Wikipedia contained incorrect statements to the effect that he might have had some involvement in the assassinations of John and Robert F. Kennedy. The comment, added by an anonymous editor, prompted Seigenthaler to write an Op-Ed in USA Today on November 29, 2005, in which he wrote that "…Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool…[f]or four months, Wikipedia depicted me as a suspected assassin." Seigenthaler said that he had tried to determine the identity of the anonymous editor but had been unable to do so since "Congress has enabled them and protects them" — a reference to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which states "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker".[6]"
It’s award season in the blogophere. First, I give you Adrian Warnock’s call for Warnie Award nominations.
Its almost the season of goodwill. Now we are actually in the month of December I am happy to start speaking of Christmas. The Warnie awards are my own thank you gift to the Christian blogosphere for giving me such a lot of fun and for continuing to surprise me with the level of appreciation links and readership that comes the way of this blog.
Well, Christmas has come early this year! I have decided to give out one more warnie award this side of the new year, but I am going to do it a bit differently. I am for the first time opening nominations – so, people here are the rules:
1. You cannot nominate yourself (although you can pursuade someone else to nominate you!)
2. You cannot nominate a blog with a higher ecosystem ranking than me as they dont need the extra attention as much.
3. This is not a totally democratic contest and I will decide which of the blogs nominated to give a warnie to, and reserve the right to decide not to give anyone a warnie
4. Nominations should ideally be done via a post on your own blog thanking your favorite blogger for their blog, stating why you think they deserve a Warnie Award and linking back to this post.
5. Nominations will remain open for at least a week and possibly longerLet the nominations begin! Previous Warnie winners are especially encouraged to enter a nomination. I hope that this will be a fun way for a bunch of bloggers to thank those blogs that they enjoy reading and explain what it is about particular blogs that they like so much.
I nominate UnSpace. Rob doesn’t always write about specifically Christian topics, but I believe he always attempts to write as as Christian. I believe he does an admirable job of this. He and I sometimes disagree on matters of dogma and doctrine, but I take great comfort in knowing that our disagreements do not get in the way of us being brothers in the Body of Christ. He takes "Love thy neighbor" very seriously and endeavors to treat his neighbors with respect and dignity, no matter how badly they treat him. More importantly, he undertands that love is a verb, and he does what all Christians must, and so few of us do: feed, clothe, visit, etc Christ in the least of His brethren (c.f. Matthew 25), as a paramedic years ago and more recently helping out folks in New Orleans. Is Rob perfect? Is he a living saint? No. Certainly not. He’d be the first to tell you that. What matters, though, is that he strives to be a saint. Shouldn’t we all?
With the important stuff out of the way, I can now point out that voting for the 2005 Wizbang Weblog Awards begin December 5. Be sure to vote for your favorite blogs. Hopefully, I’ll be a finalist for either Best Religious Blog or Best of the Top 501 – 1000 Blogs. We’ll see when the finalists are announced December 4.
It seems that a number of my readers are fans of the Tridentine mass. Some are rad-trads; others aren’t. I’m curious just how many of my readers attend indult masses. If you do, please leave a comment and/or add a pin to my Frappr map.
Heck, even if you don’t, you should still add a pin. 😉