Blog nominations are being accepted for the 2008 UU Blog Awards until Sunday. Go nominate some folks.

Here are my own favorites for the year. It’s always funny looking over my posts for the year. It reminds me of where I’ve been in my life and surprises me at how much can change.

1. Anecdotes & Narratives

» How My Curse Was Lifted. A conversation with my dad that changed my life.

» 12 Things I’ve Learned Since Being Diagnosed with Bipolar. Let the record show I was bipolar before it was cool.

» Faith Healing That Works. A reflection from this recovering Methodistacostal on what healing means for Unitarian Universalists.

» Is the Dalai Lama Really Kenny from Southpark? I was there, and I know the answer.

2. Religious Writing & Theological Commentary

» Manufactured Dissent and Fake Authenticity. Indirect commentary on the ID controversy around 2008 GA.

» Finding and Misplacing God. You never know where he’ll run off to.

» My Two Cents on the Brown Bag Controversy. Weren’t those the days?

» My Best Description of Human Shittiness. A religious naturalist take on evil, for those of us with potty mouths.

» In Praise of Polytheism. My slowly growing personal pantheon.

3. Cultural Commentary

» How to Make an Atlanta Street. What’s a blog without a rant?

» I Miss the Snark. Wherein I reminisce about the good old days of blogging like the cranky old blogger that I am.

» 17 Things I Learned from the Oklahoma Centennial. Okay, so the Daily Oklahoman pretty much wrote this for me. But you have to give me points for effort.

» My New Song! This one’s written by my nephew, but he wrote it for me.

My post popular post of the year was Update: Richard Roberts Responds to ORU Scandal. Got some Google magic with that one, and the traffic was intense for a week or more.