{"id":2788,"date":"2007-10-27T00:30:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/weekly-meanderings-72.html"},"modified":"2007-10-27T00:30:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T00:30:03","slug":"weekly-meanderings-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/weekly-meanderings-72.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of next year&#8217;s World Series champion:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/chicago.jpg\" title=\"chicago.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/10\/chicago.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"chicago.jpg\" \/><\/a><!--more|inline--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mcknightro.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/what-was-i-thinking.html\">Here&#8217;s our champion<\/a> &#8212; he conquered a marathon. Way to go Luke!<br \/>\nHere are two blogs worth your checking out:<br \/>\nPeggy at the <a href=\"http:\/\/abisomeone.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/and-so-it-begins.html\">Virtual Abbess<\/a><br \/>\nJames McGrath on <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/dont-be-too-righteous.html\">Ecclesiastes <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/meanings-of-life.html\">Meaning of Life<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barna.org\/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrowPreview&amp;BarnaUpdateID=282\">Taking the Bible at face value<\/a>: Barna study.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/homestyle\/10\/23\/22.go.green\/index.html\">Great green advice<\/a>.<br \/>\nJohn Frye&#8217;s novel, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/jesustheradicalpastor.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/out-of-print-novel.html\">Out of Print<\/a><\/em>, is now available.<br \/>\nAn interview I gave to <a href=\"http:\/\/setsnservice.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/23\/unjesus-an-interview-with-scot-mcknight\/\">Tony Stiff<\/a> over the phone about the concerns of the new Barna Group book called <em>UnChristian<\/em>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vanguardchurch.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/john-macarthur-versus-emerging-church-5.html\">Bob Robinson<\/a> is critiquing John MacArthur&#8217;s criticisms of the emerging movement, which names names. Bob&#8217;s taken some hits for turning the tables on JM; the series begins <a href=\"http:\/\/vanguardchurch.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/john-macarthur-versus-emerging-church-1.html\">here<\/a>. You might weigh in on Bob&#8217;s site.<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/communityofjesus.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/why-i-am-friendly-with-emerging-church.html\">Ted Gossard<\/a> is a steady blogger &#8212; and let&#8217;s admit it, folks, not that many are.<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/can-i-just-start-a-new-tradition\/#more-451\">I&#8217;m listening brother<\/a> (on historical evangelicalism &#8212; and you&#8217;re best prototype is Robert Webber).<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/soupiset.typepad.com\/soupablog\/2007\/10\/bob-made-me-do-.html\">Spoof<\/a>.<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/science\/10\/23\/greenland.melting\/index.html\">Where <\/a>&#8220;green&#8221; really hits home.<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/thethoughtfulchristian.blogspot.com\/\">Anyone using this site<\/a>?<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/godhungry.org\/?p=795\">On being a parent<\/a>. (Esp if you have young kids this one you might want to print out.)<br \/>\n7. Have you heard about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/cs-071025cubs,0,1633400.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout\">Sodfather<\/a>?<br \/>\n8. Christians and Muslims together for peace: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2007\/octoberweb-only\/143-42.0.html\">Here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/shared\/bsp\/hi\/pdfs\/11_10_07_letter.pdf\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/faith\/abou-commonword.htm\">here<\/a>. (HT: Derek)<br \/>\n9. We&#8217;re from a family of educators so we love this kind of story from <a href=\"http:\/\/eugenecho.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/26\/my-favorite-principal\/\">Eugene<\/a>.<br \/>\n10. <a href=\"http:\/\/julieclawson.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/overhearing-crisis-of-faith.html\">Julie <\/a>reminds us that senior citizens are asking emerging questions.<br \/>\nSports:<br \/>\nThe Bears Win!<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/bears.jpg\" title=\"bears.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/10\/bears.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"bears.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhich team did you love to hate? <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/multimedia\/photo_gallery\/0710\/unsportsmanlike.conduct\/content.8.html\">This one&#8217;s my choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of next year&#8217;s World Series champion:<\/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-2788","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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