{"id":2955,"date":"2007-12-08T00:10:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T00:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/12\/weekly-meanderings-78.html"},"modified":"2007-12-08T00:10:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T00:10:37","slug":"weekly-meanderings-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/12\/weekly-meanderings-78.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year again &#8230; and Kris and I enjoy our walks in the flurries.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/chicago-snow.jpg\" title=\"chicago-snow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/chicago-snow.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"chicago-snow.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/birdfeeders-in-winter.jpg\" title=\"birdfeeders-in-winter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/12\/birdfeeders-in-winter.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"birdfeeders-in-winter.jpg\" \/><\/a><!--more|inline--><br \/>\nMaybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allelon.org\/articles\/article.cfm?id=513&amp;page=1\">the best piece I&#8217;ve seen all year long on the internet<\/a> or maybe it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2007\/december\/21.22.html\">this one<\/a>!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2007\/decemberweb-only\/149-42.0.html\">David Neff&#8217;s response to the Romney-Religion speech<\/a>.<br \/>\nAn excellent new piece by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barna.org\/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrow&amp;BarnaUpdateID=285\">Barna<\/a>.<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/01\/opinion\/01deconink.html?em&amp;ex=1196744400&amp;en=4988336f250f7758&amp;ei=5087%0A\">Did you see thi<\/a>s? A report of mistranslations in the Gospel of Judas aired last year.<br \/>\n2. Cindy Lambert and the Voice &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/bibloohoo.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/pretty-in-pink-part-1.html\">part one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bibloohoo.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/pretty-in-pink-part-2.html\">part two<\/a>.<br \/>\n3. Many are now talking about the &#8220;missional turn&#8221; in the church &#8212; few know it as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblical.edu\/images\/belong\/PDFs\/11-8%20dave%20dunbar%20biblical%20seminary.mp3\">Dave Dunbar<\/a>.<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/05\/technology\/techspecial2\/05kindle.html?em&amp;ex=1197090000&amp;en=b1b80629dcc9a3de&amp;ei=5087%0A\">Anyone using one of these e-readers<\/a>?<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/communityofjesus.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/advent-and-prayer.html\">Advent and prayer<\/a> from Ted.<br \/>\n6. The Pope has got to start writing shorter posts on his (encyclical) blog. Here&#8217;s his newest one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html\">On Hope<\/a>. Important read.<br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2007\/decemberweb-only\/149-53.0.html\">Wayne Grudem supports Romney<\/a>.<br \/>\nSports:<br \/>\nSorry Rex.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/sorry-rex.jpg\" title=\"sorry-rex.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/12\/sorry-rex.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"sorry-rex.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year again &#8230; and Kris and I enjoy our walks in the flurries.<\/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-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-meanderings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weekly Meanderings - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/12\/weekly-meanderings-78.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weekly Meanderings - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s that time of the year again &#8230; 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