{"id":3421,"date":"2008-04-05T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/04\/weekly-meanderings-95.html"},"modified":"2008-04-05T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T00:10:07","slug":"weekly-meanderings-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/04\/weekly-meanderings-95.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVote for Steve McCoy<\/a> — he helped me learn to blog and will give his winnings to help others hear the gospel. Scroll down and click on “Reformissionary.”
\nHere come the …. Hummers<\/a>!
\n[This just in: Diane Reynolds writes a nice piece on the emerging movement and focuses on Baltimore<\/a>.]
\nTheologian trading cards<\/a>!
\nThis is what we mean by “conversation” in the emerging movement<\/a>. Good goin’ Dan.
\nJim Martin on the atmosphere <\/a>at your home.
\nWhen is “missional” not helpful? Read Dave Dunbar’s new missional journal entry<\/a>.
\nYou’ve got to read what Teddy Roosevelt said <\/a>about the Cubs in the 20th Century. He used the “d” word.
\nEarth Hour in Chicago:
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\nKris has been following Mark’s blog<\/a> … touching and let’s remember to pray for Mark and his son.
\nOur prayers are with Christine Scheller and family<\/a>.
\nHelen Mildenhall’s poem<\/a> — have you seen this?
\nDavid Fitch’s two questions for Brian McLaren<\/a>.
\nEd Gilbreath<\/a> continues to dig into the Barack Obama speech.
\nGraduation rates<\/a> in some cities falls perilously low. (HT: RJS)
\nWhat do we see<\/a>?
\nTuesday’s post on the emerging Amish church Solomon’s Barn<\/a>.
\nJMT has a blog<\/a>.
\nStan Friedman’s interview<\/a> about my 40 Days<\/em>.
\nThis is getting long already, but Bob Smietana’s piece<\/a> on The Shack<\/a>\"\"<\/em> is — as always with Bob — well-written and insightful.
\nLack willpower? Want to know why?<\/a>
\n1. Robert Fagles<\/a>, well known translator of Homer and Virgil, dies.
\n2. As a youngster my mom dragged me and my sisters to the St. Louis stage to see “The Sound of Music” live, and then we saw it on TV and then I saw some of those places in Salzburg as a college student and now Julie Andrews tells her story<\/a>.
\n3. Abstinence debates at Harvard<\/a>.
\n4. George Barna’s new study of divorce<\/a>.
\n5. Pope Benedict XVI<\/a> is coming to the USA.
\nTheologian trading cards: Luther and Melanchthon<\/a> as well as Karl Barth<\/a>.
\n6. Good, thorough, thoughtful summary of the ESA conference in Philly<\/a> by Michael Kruse. And this is a good place to begin<\/a> in Michael’s series on Brian McLaren’s book.
\n7. John Frye<\/a> on “we are the Bible.”
\n8. Read Maria’s blog<\/a> about small things with great love — two posts.
\n9. DC’s cherry blossoms<\/a> … we were there last year, but the only blossoms remaining were blowing around on the ground.
\n10. NYC Cricketers<\/a>.
\nSports:
\nFukodomer Homer:
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\nSpeaking of homers, here’s the homer king Ernie Banks looking at the new statue of himself at Wrigley:
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\nThe toast of the NCAA tourney was Stephen Curry, of Davidson College, and we were saddened to see them eliminated.
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