{"id":2245,"date":"2007-06-09T01:30:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/06\/weekly-meanderings-53.html"},"modified":"2007-06-09T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T01:30:31","slug":"weekly-meanderings-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/06\/weekly-meanderings-53.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a week off, here’s a new start to a year of Weekly Meanderings:
\nMoses Lee, a classmate of my son in high school, is a bright young man who wants to steward his intelligence and gifts to help world poverty. Read this <\/a>article.
\nMust read from JR Woodward on Heinz 57 Spirituality<\/a>.
\nEugene Cho’s report<\/a> on the emerging\/traditional church merger. The Seattle Post Intelligencer’s article<\/a>.
\nGreat story about a great man: David Scholer<\/a>.
\nTSK weighs in on swearing<\/a>.
\nErika <\/a>reflects on her marriage — five years ago.
\nChristopher Hitchens rails against God and religion; Peter Hitchens<\/a>, his brother, weighs in against his brother.
\nMark Lau Branson once called this <\/a>the fundamentalism of liberalism.
\nBrowse through LL Barkat’s blog<\/a> and meander a little longer on her wonderful photos.
\n1. Because he’s freakin’ awesome<\/a>!
\n2. Do you have blogging blues? Here’s a revelation of what it is like<\/a> — and if you were paid for blogging, as journalists are, then you learn to keep on plugging away and it is the plugging that does the revealing.
\n3. Farrakhan<\/a>: “Even though I am a Muslim — I don’t apologize for that — I’m also a Christian.”
\n4. There is now “one priest for every 1,500 U.S. Catholics.” See the article <\/a>here.
\n5. David Fitch<\/a> has a nice synopsis of postmodernity and the church — it’s a bit old but I missed it when he posted this in late May.
\n6. Scott Morizot<\/a> does a series on the meaning of sin. Worth reading and thinking about.
\n7. Dan Kimball <\/a>on “core” and “non-core” beliefs.
\n8. Thanks Ben<\/a>, I love Billy too.
\n9. I may be doing a series on Christopher Hitchens’ book, but here is the beginning of what will surely be a good one at Mark Roberts<\/a>.
\n10. When I read the review, I said to myself, “This person couldn’t have read my book on Mary.” Now Art Boulet<\/a> says it like it is. I thank Art, not because I think my book needs defense, but because it is important for all of us to use our critical thinking skills — not to mention some sharp writing skills on Art’s part.
\nSports:
\nThat crazy Billy Martin started this nonsense, but Mgr Wellman<\/a> has taken it to a new level with his sneak upon them and throw a grenade at the ump’s feet.
\nI agree: those Oregon Ducks football uniforms <\/a>are uglier than home made soap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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