{"id":2488,"date":"2007-08-11T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T00:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/08\/weekly-meanderings-61.html"},"modified":"2007-08-11T00:10:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T00:10:53","slug":"weekly-meanderings-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/08\/weekly-meanderings-61.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dog days of Santa Barbara:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dog-surf.jpg\" title=\"dog-surf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/08\/dog-surf.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"dog-surf.jpg\" \/><\/a> <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nSBC in the news again. Understatement of the year: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/custom\/religion\/sns-ap-religion-today,1,6826567.story?ctrack=2&amp;cset=true\">We are moving against the tide<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\nRCC in the news again. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/custom\/religion\/chi-marriage_lataug06,1,5572123.story?ctrack=3&amp;cset=true\">Revitalize marriage<\/a>.<br \/>\nWho is the king of jungle after all? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/tech\/2007\/08\/08\/sotvo.youtube.safari.smackdown.cnn\">The Cape Buffalo<\/a>!<br \/>\nWhen <a href=\"http:\/\/spearszacharias.bravejournal.com\/entry\/23834\">Karen <\/a>gets south of the Mason-Dixie line her humor comes to life. Sit down for a laugh with this one, and then click on to her home page and read a few more for laughs. One day I was at the local establishment bookstore browsing through biographies and memoirs, I happened upon <em>Hero Mama<\/em> (now called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abunga.com\/details\/?ean=9780060721497&amp;affkey=826D777A-128C-465B-8B07-B193508149DB\">After the Flag is Folded<\/a><\/em>) and I found a writer who has become a friend. She&#8217;s got a book  coming out with Zondervan called &#8220;<em>Where&#8217;s Your Jesus Now?<\/em>&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sempervita.typepad.com\/tamara\/2007\/08\/mrs-curtis-firs.html\">Tamara lives the Jesus Creed<\/a>.<br \/>\nJohn Frye has a nice post on <a href=\"http:\/\/jesustheradicalpastor.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/pathetic-prophet-jonah-4.html\">Jonah<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daddyroblog.blogs.com\/daddyroblog\/2007\/08\/bitten-in-beliz.html\">Fr Rob the Iguana Hunter<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe best vocation ever by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedreligion.com\/?p=162\">Brad Bergfalk<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthemap.com\/live\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.offthemap.com\/live\/images\/hlc400X62static.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nJust added: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markgalli.com\/galliblog\/?p=87\">Here&#8217;s a very good conversation<\/a>.<br \/>\n1. I&#8217;m thinking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/personal\/08\/03\/17.kids.ap\/index.html\">passing this on<\/a> to my colleague and his wife, Joel and Karla Willitts, to see if they could possibly imagine 15 more! And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddhiestand.com\/\">congrats to the Hiestands<\/a>!<br \/>\n2. Parenting and the challenges of the Christian faith: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barna.org\/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrow&amp;BarnaUpdateID=276\">Barna&#8217;s newest report<\/a>.<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aefcenter.org\/DavidNeff.htm\">David Neff <\/a>is the new Director of the Robert E. Webber Center for an Ancient Evangelical Future. We are giving a presentation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aefcenter.org\/attend.html\">the conference this fall<\/a>.<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/euangelizomai.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/willitts-mia.html\">Babies <\/a>and more babies.<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/wayoflife\/07\/27\/livingwell.endoflife.reut\/index.html\">End of life issues<\/a>.<br \/>\n6. A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/mac\/\">iMac<\/a>.<br \/>\n7. No matter your politics, <a href=\"http:\/\/sempervita.typepad.com\/tamara\/2007\/07\/chelsea-clinton.html\">this one is funny<\/a>.<br \/>\n8. I&#8217;ve had a change of mind: <a href=\"http:\/\/christineascheller.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/09\/new-yorkfloridatexas\/\">I now love NY<\/a>.<br \/>\n9. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/custom\/religion\/chi-labibleaug5-story,1,1597464.story?ctrack=1&amp;cset=true\">Bible in schools<\/a>?<br \/>\n10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/health\/article\/0,8599,1650602,00.html?cnn=yes\">Printer Lung Disease<\/a>?<br \/>\n11. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story.asp?id=338816\">Climbing the Summit in translation<\/a>. (HT: My 2 Cents)<br \/>\nSports:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2007\/baseball\/mlb\/07\/13\/bonds.survey\/index.html\">B*rry B*onds<\/a>: What do you think?<br \/>\nThe Cubs are trying to fall back but the Brewers just won&#8217;t let them.<br \/>\nHow&#8217;d you like to look back to the hole behind you and see this fella coming at you?<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/aug10_tigerwoods_372x400.jpg\" title=\"aug10_tigerwoods_372x400.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/08\/aug10_tigerwoods_372x400.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"aug10_tigerwoods_372x400.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dog days of Santa Barbara:<\/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-2488","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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