{"id":1491,"date":"2006-11-04T02:10:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T02:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/11\/weekly-meanderings-23.html"},"modified":"2006-11-04T02:10:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T02:10:44","slug":"weekly-meanderings-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/11\/weekly-meanderings-23.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I fly to John Brown University — and I have a full schedule Monday evening and Tuesday, but I’m looking forward to meeting these fine people. (Birdwatcher question at bottom today.)
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\nI hope I remember to look at this<\/a> after the elections.
\nHere’s the skinny on all the papers at the Westminster Theological Seminary conference on the emerging movement<\/a>. Tony Stiff, with others, managed to pull off a very good conference.
\nLukas had a conversation recently with a Muslim and did a series on the questions he raised for Lukas. Read the final part here<\/a>. (You can scroll down to see the others.)
\nHere’s the Southern Baptist Denny Burk imitating a dancer <\/a>— Denny, you’ve got possibilities. (Optative or Subjunctive, not sure.) Denny, is this your subtle appeal to get Wheaton’s attention?
\nBusters, morality, and sexuality: the Barna report<\/a>.
\nThe teenage brain<\/a>: not the same. (That helps explain.)
\nHere’s a big one: link to this. The Pseudepigrapha online<\/a>. (Thanks to Acadia and Craig Evans)
\n1. Jordon Cooper, with Resonate, has now posted an excellent reading list for church planters<\/a>.
\n2. Pope speaks<\/a> about sexual abuse.
\n3. The best news I’ve seen<\/a>: California is about to overtake Wisconsin in cheese production. If Arnold’s State wins this coveted status, I hope they take all those stupid “cheeseheads” hats from the Green Bay Packers and plunk them on the head of the 49ers fans.
\n4. Scary GodMen<\/a>; and how to explain such a phenomenon? Promise Keepers on steroids? (HT: Karen) Also here<\/a>.
\n5. Study on SIDS<\/a> shows hope.
\n6. The story of Russ Reno’s conversion<\/a> to Catholicism — an American example of the thousands who have made the same move in England. (HT: A Tooley)
\n7. UB40’s “Red, red wine” got a boost this week: read this report<\/a>.
\n8. Fish for food<\/a> has numbered days.
\n9. This deserves to be at the top but I ran out of space — a fantastic intimation of Wolfgang Simson’s 15 theses at TSK<\/a>.
\n10. Thanks to a student, Ryan Starr, I was sent this: should I laugh or cry? Left behind or still here? Scroll down to “Video: Left Behind: Rapture as Video Game<\/a>.”
\n11. Peter Lumpkins is interviewing Roger Olson<\/a>.
\nSPORTS:
\nBear Sightings: two weekends ago we rode on a plane with Rex Grossman; last night Kris and I were leaving a restaurant (name not given to protect him if it is his regular place for Friday dinner) when none other than Brian Urlacher walked in. I said, “Hey Urlacher.” He said, “Hey.”
\nThe Bulls are supposed to be good this year; but I must admit playing basketball Oct 1- June 15 hardly interests me. When the snow goes, it’s time to play baseball.
\nJust how good are those Bears? (And what a great schedule they’ve got.)
\nOn Birds<\/strong>: I mentioned recently that we’ve had a Northern Harrier hanging around our backyard. Wednesday I took this picture: he was eating (what looked like) a dove. The Harrier has been hanging around, evidently, to capture prey — but I suspected it was our chipmunks. But, no, he’s after birds. I hadn’t heard of that.
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