Beliefnet wins Online Journalism Award

I see via Gregg Easterbrook that Beliefnet has won an Online Journalism Award for General Excellence. Good for them. Beliefnet has been around for a good long time and I've always found it to be a very useful, definitive resource for spiritual matters. It's about time it received some recognition. And - if you'll excuse the evangelism - they have a really good, enlightening Unitarian Universalist section.

Beliefnet is one of the very best things on the Web--surely the best site by far for spiritual issues, and one whose ecumenical worldview both embraces and criticizes all faiths and denominations. (Note: I played a small part in the establishment of Beliefnet, so am not exactly unbiased.) Beliefnet's strength is that it fills a role the "old" media generally seem uncomfortable with: that of taking faith seriously as a serious concern and a meaningful component of millions of lives. And the depth of content on the site is simply amazing: entire areas on all world religions and denominations, plus prayer circles, memorials to thousands of people, and many other features. If you haven't wandered around Beliefnet before, now would be an excellent time. Years of under-funded, very-high-quality work on Beliefnet has finally been recognized by the world.