{"id":1999,"date":"2007-03-24T02:30:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T02:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/03\/weekly-meanderings-43.html"},"modified":"2007-03-24T02:30:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T02:30:27","slug":"weekly-meanderings-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/03\/weekly-meanderings-43.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jibstay.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/congo-captives.html\">Please pray<\/a> for these people.<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nAnnouncement: Zondervan has postponed the Emerging event in Austin and Minneapolis. Stay tuned for the rescheduling, which I hear will be next Fall.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spearszacharias.bravejournal.com\/entry\/22318\">Heart-felt post<\/a> of the week from Karen.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jesustheradicalpastor.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/jesus-on-whos-in-whos-out.html\">Who&#8217;s in? Who&#8217;s out?<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nAn interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llbarkat.com\/writing2.html#journeys\">LL Barkat<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/49376\/\">Evangelicals and progressives<\/a> or evangelical progressives? (HT: G. Olson)<br \/>\nRichard Mouw is. Are you? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netbloghost.com\/mouw\/?p=24\">A theocrat<\/a>)<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/HEALTH\/diet.fitness\/03\/15\/eat.your.veggies.ap\/index.html\">Fruits and veggies<\/a>: Are you?<br \/>\n2. You can either calculate the odds of being caught or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,259406,00.html\">do the math<\/a> for the fine.<br \/>\n3. Very nice interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitymagazine.co.uk\/engine.cfm?i=92&amp;id=1021&amp;arch=f\">Rob Bell<\/a>. I like the lines he&#8217;s drawing in the sand. HT: Mook.<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/science\/03\/18\/climate.technology.ap\/index.html\">Geo-engineering<\/a> on the horizon? I like the idea of those giant trees.<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,259866,00.html\">This is a sad story<\/a> and it is a course my son and I have played many times.<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/03\/20\/smelly.sneakers.ap\/index.html\">New sporting event<\/a>.<br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/home\/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&amp;uStory_id=72f9d806-7f90-4bb3-bb2b-970e5dee1eb2\">Professors and spirituality<\/a>. (HT: RJS)<br \/>\n8. Wow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andresjourney.info\/andres\/\">Andres <\/a>has some great pictures &#8230; and stories.<br \/>\nSports:<br \/>\nNCAA tournament &#8230; when we&#8217;ve had the time, we&#8217;ve really enjoyed this tournament.<br \/>\nAt North Point last weekend I may have found a golf partner when we&#8217;re near: Bill Willits. I hope Randy Frazee hears this.<br \/>\nNope, we didn&#8217;t enter into any pool and I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve never entered one. Not sure why &#8230; just isn&#8217;t very interesting to me.<br \/>\nOn the Cubs: Piniella is impressive in his capacity to make decisions &#8212; he seems to know what he wants, decides when he sees it, and doesn&#8217;t wallow around wondering if he&#8217;ll change his mind. Matt Murton is my new favorite Cub. He&#8217;s one of those few right-handed hitters who can swing a bat like a left-hander (ie go both ways). His swing is flat &#8212; what a great swing for the 2 hole.<br \/>\nSeems Wade Miller will get that 5th starting position, Guzman maybe back to AAA, and Prior working out his form in AAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please pray for these people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-meanderings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weekly Meanderings - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/03\/weekly-meanderings-43.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weekly Meanderings - 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