Online Religious Resources

[zvi]

Where do you go online to do religious things?

I am defining "do religion" here as broadly as you do, from listening to sermons and reading theological blogs, to the calendar where you organize the RE schedule, to the musician whose music you keep downloading for worship services, to whatever other religious activities you do that are enhanced by the internet.

Please talk about what you use and how you use it. And, if you've been looking for a tool that does X, let us know. Maybe someone is sitting right on the website or the app that you need.

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[waldo]

There's a UU Twitter account I like to follow.

And 2U uses Facebook to organize things.

But that's about it.

[zvi]

Which twitter account?

[waldo]

@TrUUlySocial

[shoshanna_g]

My DW reading lists, pretty much. I have also bookmarked lots of resources for creating lifecycle rituals (ranging from UU online brochures about memorial services to Emily Post on wedding etiquette), and I often hit up the UUA and CUC websites.

[zvi]

Any particularly wise journalers or rss feeds that you would care to share?

[shoshanna_g]

Number one without a doubt is the Velveteen Rabbi, velveteenrabbi_feed; not Unitarian, but wise and skilled and spiritual (and my minister is dying to get her up here to do a service with us, so, you know -- Unitarian enough! *g*).

I'm a member of several email lists for lay chaplains, which are sadly largely inactive, but if someone pokes them with a post, they do get replies, so that's a useful resource if I need it. Other than that, the specifically religious online conversations I have (other than here) are with particular individuals, I think, and not the kinds of places I should direct people to who don't know them, I'm afraid. Because I have a large brick&mortar religious community, and several good friends within it (including people with whom I have many overlapping interests besides UUism), I don't tend to search out many other online resources for such things.

They're probably not exactly the kinds of things you're thinking of, but communities like access_fandom and stilljewish and debunkingwhite give me things to think about that play into the sorts of things I tend to think of as religious, too. So do the advice columns I read (I've always loved advice columns): captainawkward_feed, savagelove_feed, carolyn_hax_feed, and dear_prudence_feed.

[zvi]

I like listening to sermons.

I listen to CLF's Quest magazine.

I listen to the team at First Unitarian Church of Rochester.

And I listen to the platforms given at the Washington Ethical Society.

I also listen to several different podcasts about religion, Buddhist Geeks, On Being, Interfaith Voices, Freethought Radio, and The Humanist Hour.

I am also contemplating getting a facebook acct in order to do UU things there, but I really, really don't want to.