{"id":2557,"date":"2007-09-01T00:10:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T00:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/09\/weekly-meanderings-64.html"},"modified":"2007-09-01T00:10:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T00:10:58","slug":"weekly-meanderings-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/09\/weekly-meanderings-64.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"

We escaped any serious flooding in our area, but Chicago was drenched<\/a> with rains and flooding for a week. Many in our area will spend weeks cleaning up and drying out. [For some reason, some of my Chicago Tribune links are not available and I wonder if it is because they are a week or so old, and #2 requires signing in to Google. Sorry.]
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\nThe world’s worst airport<\/a>?
\nThis <\/a>has got to be the Parable of the Shrewd Manager on Steroids!
\nThe vote is in from New Orleans on the baggy-saggy pants<\/a>.
\nThe video-enhanced iPod<\/a> will mean….?
\nThis is what we have to look forward to this month in the Midwest:
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\n1. The vitality of religion<\/a> among youth.
\n2. Whatever happened to ESPN? Ask Luke<\/a>.
\n3. I hope more seminaries develop spiritual direction programs. North Park’s<\/a> now has its official graduates.
\n4. Guess who’s 40<\/a>? I’m certain I’ve not had a Big Mac since I was 40, and I’m guessing the last one was when I was about 35.
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\n5. Counterfeiting must be big business, but the US Bureau<\/a> is one step ahead with their new Ben Franklin moving image.
\n6. Review by Geoff Holsclaw<\/a> of A Community called Atonement<\/a>\"\".
\n7. “The grapes she threw April 4 beaned [“graped”?] at least one board member before police led Hitchcock out of the auditorium.” Activists <\/a>can sometimes just get out of hand. Graping people might be the new form of nonviolent resistance.
\n8. Reclaiming your evenings<\/a>.
\n9. We’ve got crickets in our basement, and Thursday’s commenters gave me some suggestions. But, this is what I really need …
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\n10. The new Nelson Mandela statue in London.
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\nSports:
\nNow they’ve gone and done it. Someone at Zondervan has re-issued my 1 Peter commentary but done so in new colors: green and yellow. I can’t bring myself to linking to it here since it constantly reminds me of the Green Bay Packers and I just can’t get over it. 8)
\nThe Cubs are in first place; I predicted this at the beginning of the year but I have no confidence. I don’t think the Cubs, Cards or Brewers are good enough that we can say “They’ll win.” Any of them can win it, and I hope it is the Cubs. It looks a bit like this:
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