{"id":2920,"date":"2007-12-01T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/12\/weekly-meanderings-77.html"},"modified":"2007-12-01T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T00:10:00","slug":"weekly-meanderings-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/12\/weekly-meanderings-77.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago’s Offense is up in the air now that Hester’s just too good to kick to…
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\nThe Ten Plagues Bowling Game:
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\n(Available at TEN PLAGUES BOWLING SET: $20, plus shipping and handling, from Hamakor Judaica, 7777 N. Merrimac Ave., Niles, IL 60714; 800-426-2567.)
\nYet another “case for book”<\/a> …. The Case for Lee Strobel.
\nJust in case you didn’t see this, Eugene Cho weighs in on Buy Nothing Day<\/a> (Black Friday) and explains a few things many of us need to hear.
\nDave Dunbar<\/a>‘s got another edition of missional journal posted. Good stuff again from a seminary that is setting a trend on missional orientation.
\nA New Report from Leadership<\/a> on the variety of Christians in the USA. This report is worth having at your fingertips, esp the brief conspectus of facts at the bottom of the piece.
\nErika Haub’s reflection<\/a> is a good reminder of the value of sacred space and memory.
\nGood missional students<\/a> at NPU.
\nTalk about the good ole days<\/a>.
\nAn Advent resource, available online, from Brother Maynard<\/a>.
\n1. Good piece on the faith of science<\/a>.
\n2. Sunday School for atheists<\/a>.
\n3. Anyone know much about green burial<\/a>? I read a piece in the Tribune <\/a>this week about it.
\n4. Dan Reid<\/a>, who deserves 50 honorary doctorates for his editorial work on the IVP dictionaries, has a blog that is always worth reading … and the one about what to say when you’ve bought too many books is priceless.
\n5. 1. Is this consumerism or missional<\/a>?
\n6. Should we “rap” the Creed? See David Neff’s Dr. Luther, Rapmeister<\/a>.
\n7. The Innocence Project<\/a>: quite the story.
\n8. Here’s a pastor’s new blog<\/a> and it gives me the impression of another pastor’s blog I like — but I won’t mention the name.
\n9. Brad Wright, a sociology professor and a good thinker on statistics, has now finished an 11-part report on the Willow study. Ben Dubow links to all eleven<\/a>; it is worth your while to begin with #11.
\n10. Any response to this history of marriage and marriage law<\/a>?
\nSports:
\nBaseball’s biggest scandal for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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