{"id":2357,"date":"2007-07-14T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T01:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/07\/weekly-meanderings-58.html"},"modified":"2007-07-14T01:10:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T01:10:15","slug":"weekly-meanderings-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/07\/weekly-meanderings-58.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will be spending most of the week in Odder, Denmark, just south of Aarhus, but before we left I did what I could to get some links up for the week. <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nSometimes, to think more clearly and to gain new perspective and to approach things from the most effective angle, we have to turn things upside down &#8230; or go upside down ourselves:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/goldfinches.jpg\" title=\"goldfinches.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/07\/goldfinches.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"goldfinches.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI can think of lots of followers of Jesus who got things right by turning upside down.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrollcountytimes.com\/talk\/\">Diane Reynolds<\/a>, a journalist, is getting some people to turn upside down and look at old issues in a new way. She&#8217;s at the vanguard of those who are creating blogs for newspapers. Link to her page. (Scroll down to More of Religion Today.)<br \/>\nWe need some upside down stuff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/personal\/07\/02\/marriage.survey.ap\/index.html\">here <\/a>too.<br \/>\nNew website I&#8217;ve just been perusing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metamorpha.com\/Home\/TabId\/36\/default.aspx\">Metamorpha<\/a>. Visit and stay awhile. Tell me what you think.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barna.org\/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrow&amp;BarnaUpdateID=274\">Barna on Catholics in the US<\/a>.<br \/>\nDid you see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/07\/13\/martin\/index.html\">this<\/a>? Smoking response to the Pope by Roland Martin.<br \/>\nThis is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TRAVEL\/07\/02\/signspotting\/index.html\">a collection of funny signs<\/a> in the world.<br \/>\nWonderful discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/lifestyle\/living\/chi-mxa0711eatcoverjul11,1,7417435.story?coll=chi-living-hed\">how to make Ligurian pesto<\/a> &#8212; virtually identical to how I make it.<br \/>\n1. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TRAVEL\/07\/08\/boeing.787.ap\/index.html\">iPlane<\/a> (ideal plane) for iPhoners like Ron.<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/07\/06\/largest.loo.ap\/index.html\">Four stories of happiness<\/a>?!<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/ptech\/07\/03\/la.minisodes.ap\/index.html\">Minisodes <\/a>is the new kind of watching TV; Kris would like to see golf-isodes.<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/HEALTH\/07\/05\/who.talks.most.ap\/index.html\">Say what, say who<\/a>?<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/custom\/religion\/chi-latinmass_07jul07,1,3226559.story?coll=chi-religion-topheadlines\">Mass and the masses<\/a>?<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/jibstay.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/church-in-jail.html\">Thanks Don<\/a>.<br \/>\n7. Fool proof evidence that there is a millennium:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/n614926346_166881_5456.jpg\" title=\"n614926346_166881_5456.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/07\/n614926346_166881_5456.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"n614926346_166881_5456.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/meast\/06\/26\/pysk.mohammed\/index.html\">Hard to read<\/a>, but important to read.<br \/>\n9. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/wayoflife\/07\/11\/new.words.ap\/index.html\">New words<\/a> in our Dictionary.<br \/>\nSports:<br \/>\nMark it down: Here come the Cubs! 3.5 games back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be spending most of the week in Odder, Denmark, just south of Aarhus, but before we left I did what I could to get some links up for the week.<\/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-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-meanderings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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