{"id":2856,"date":"2007-11-10T00:10:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T00:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/11\/weekly-meanderings-74.html"},"modified":"2007-11-10T00:10:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T00:10:01","slug":"weekly-meanderings-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/11\/weekly-meanderings-74.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being green preserves nature:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/moon-over-der-schweiz.jpg\" title=\"moon-over-der-schweiz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/11\/moon-over-der-schweiz.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"moon-over-der-schweiz.jpg\" \/><\/a><!--more|inline--><br \/>\nAnd we get trees like this in Chicago every Fall:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/fall-trees.jpg\" title=\"fall-trees.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/11\/fall-trees.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"fall-trees.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChris Tomlin&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.godtube.com\/view_video.php?viewkey=fb7bc667c7b301b74d52\">Indescribable<\/a>&#8221; set to images.<br \/>\nI made fun of the Oregon Duck&#8217;s uniforms, and this is what I feared all week: Revenge of the Ducks.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/revenge-of-the-ducks.jpg\" title=\"revenge-of-the-ducks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/11\/revenge-of-the-ducks.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"revenge-of-the-ducks.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchforvideo.com\/watchclip.php?title=Frank+Caliendo+On+Letterman+As+Bush&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%3Fv%3DFLhQHeyOrnY&amp;description=Frank+Caliendo+on+Letterman+as+Bush&amp;source=YouTube.com&amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.youtube.com%2Fvi%2FFLhQHeyOrnY%2Fdefault.jpg&amp;category=directory&amp;searchterm=%2Fentertainment%2Fcomedians%2Ffrank-caliendo%2F\">Funniest YouTube <\/a>imitation by Frank Caliendo.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com\/tallskinnykiwi\/\">TSK has caught fire as a blogger again<\/a> &#8230; browse his site for lots of interesting recent posts.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rexjames.blogspot.com\/\">Bente and David<\/a> have a blog; we met these Chicagoans-Danes in Denmark this summer and they serve at JPUSA.<br \/>\nA definitive statement of what Anabaptism is: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc4me.org\/articles\/Baptist\/04-McGrath.pdf\">Neither Catholic nor Protestant<\/a><\/em>.<br \/>\nThe end of the need to spend hours and hours learning how to use the <em>The Liturgy of the Hours<\/em>. Wolf Paul pointed this site out to me: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalis.com\/\">Universalis<\/a>. And you can purchase use of the whole for download on your computer (or other techno-sites).<br \/>\n1. Willow&#8217;s study of itself called <em>Reveal<\/em> is drawing lots of response. Mark Galli of CT weighs in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2007\/octoberweb-only\/143-43.0.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n2. Trevin Wax on the f<a href=\"http:\/\/trevinwax.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/06\/the-fundamentalist-survival-mechanism\/\">undamentalist survival mechanism<\/a>.<br \/>\n3. A meaningful review of <em>A Community called Atonement<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientevangelicalfuture.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/your-atonement-is-too-small.html\">David Neff<\/a>.<br \/>\n4. We thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/exchange\/blogs\/ypwr\/2007\/11\/melinda-doolittle.html\">Melinda Doolittle<\/a> was special &#8212; and I like this story about her.<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/riffs-110307-missouri-baptists-and-the-battle-of-the-booze\">iMonk&#8217;s testy again<\/a> about the SBC and drinking fire water.<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21656644\/\">These days <\/a>have been coming&#8230; (HT: Rick)<br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,308756,00.html\">Russell Crowe<\/a> will be baptized in a Byzantine chapel &#8212; is he Eastern Orthodox? (HT: pepy)<br \/>\n8. I&#8217;m interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/un-churchnmiami.blogspot.com\/\">this poll<\/a>, but I&#8217;m a churchgoer.<br \/>\n9. <a href=\"http:\/\/danbrennan.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2007\/11\/happiness-fri-2.html\">Dan Brennan<\/a> is now doing a series on Paul Waddell&#8217;s new book, and Dan is a serious student of friendship scholarship.<br \/>\n10. Ted&#8217;s right <a href=\"http:\/\/communityofjesus.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/reading-and-interacting-with-love.html\">here <\/a>. I&#8217;ve read very few critiques of Willow Creek&#8217;s new study, Reveal, that have read the study and understand the point Bill Hybels is actually making.<br \/>\nSports:<br \/>\nSay it ain&#8217;t so, Bud. <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2007\/baseball\/mlb\/11\/06\/bc.bbo.instantreplay.ap\/index.html\">Instant replay <\/a>in baseball?<br \/>\nWhere in the world is <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2007\/basketball\/ncaa\/11\/07\/bc.bkc.t25.gardnerwebb.ap\/index.html?bcnn=yes\">Gardner-Webb<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being green preserves nature:<\/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-2856","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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