{"id":3884,"date":"2008-07-19T00:10:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T00:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/07\/weekly-meanderings-107.html"},"modified":"2008-07-19T00:10:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T00:10:46","slug":"weekly-meanderings-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/07\/weekly-meanderings-107.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City lights of Chicago:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/city-lights.jpg\" title=\"city-lights.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/city-lights.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"city-lights.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/city-lights-2.jpg\" title=\"city-lights-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/city-lights-2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"city-lights-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/city-lights-3.jpg\" title=\"city-lights-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2008\/07\/city-lights-3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"city-lights-3.jpg\" \/><\/a><!--more|inline--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/video\/2008\/07\/15\/VI2008071500925.html?hpid=topnews\">New Jib-Jab<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s time for some campaignin&#8217;!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/13\/mideast\/dissident.php?page=1\">&#8220;It seems to me that people here are free to live their lives, as long as they do no harm to anyone else,&#8221; he said<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/photoessays\/2008\/mandela_90\/\">Great set of pictures and images<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1821467-1,00.html\">His eight principles of leadership<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jibstay.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/what-book-reads-you.html\">What book is reading you<\/a>? Another Covenanter, <a href=\"http:\/\/erika.haub.net\/goodbye-charlie-and-kate\/07\/\">Erika, shares her good-bye<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spearszacharias.bravejournal.com\/entry\/26941\">Karen&#8217;s taken a new job as a newspaper writer in Fayetteville, NC<\/a>. She starts Aug 4, so if you are from there, look her up. You&#8217;ve got to hand it to Karen for thinking up the notion of moving to Fayetteville in August. Should be nice and toasty.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bikeforjustice.blogspot.com\/\">Here <\/a>are some young students committed to justice.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/13\/AR2008071301641.html?hpid=topnews&amp;sid=ST2008071400201&amp;pos=\">Older people are happier people<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/15\/healthscience\/15ecohomes.php?page=1\">Anyone use a Smart Meter<\/a>?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/07\/14\/reed-says-not-interested-in-vp-role\/\">Senator Reed and I<\/a> are together on this one.<br \/>\nMy favorite catalog comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingenthusiast.com\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/15\/opinion\/15brooks.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">Life vs. laws<\/a>.<br \/>\nA blog with mostly an experience of <a href=\"http:\/\/rexjames.blogspot.com\/\">a Dane in the USA<\/a>: we know Dave and Bente; stop in and visit them. (Dave&#8217;s a latte lover; and Intelligentsia; and Rancilio Silvia.)<br \/>\n1. Each of us could benefit from the brilliance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Obit-DeBakey.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">Dr. Michael DeBakey<\/a>.<br \/>\n2. <em>The Washington Post<\/em> is doing a series on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/metro\/specials\/chandra\/\">Chandra Levy case<\/a>.<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/13\/opinion\/13kristof.html?em&amp;ex=1216180800&amp;en=0a5a5fb5567f6622&amp;ei=5087%0A\">Building schools<\/a> in impoverished communities in the Middle East.<br \/>\n4. Time for some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/13\/business\/guarantee.php\">basics on economy<\/a>.<br \/>\n5. Good piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/13\/AR2008071302097.html?hpid=artslot\">Jesse and Obama<\/a>.<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientevangelicalfuture.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/new-free-church-statement-ordinances.html\">Good for the Evangelical Free Church<\/a> &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2008\/julyweb-only\/129-11.0.html\">and more here<\/a> and HT: Brad Boydston for pointing us to David Neff&#8217;s post.<br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/07\/16\/martin.vouchers\/index.html\">Martin got this one right<\/a>.<br \/>\n8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/17\/asia\/17pope-cnd.php\">The Pope in Australia with the youth<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/custom\/religion\/pope-0717,0,2265040.story\">The &#8220;green&#8221; pope<\/a>.<br \/>\n9. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/history\/special\/131christians\/rembrandt.html\">Rembrandt<\/a>. My favorite of his is the picture of Simeon.<br \/>\nSports:<br \/>\nI&#8217;m cheering for this guy in The Open. But I have to say that jacket doesn&#8217;t live up to Greg Norman wear.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/norman.jpg\" title=\"norman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2008\/07\/norman.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"norman.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd I couldn&#8217;t be happier for David Duval&#8217;s fine showing.<br \/>\nRami!<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rami.jpg\" title=\"rami.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2008\/07\/rami.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"rami.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/football\/ncaa\/07\/14\/michigan.uniforms.ap\/index.html\">Univ of Michigan has new jerseys<\/a>. That&#8217;s not the problem. Bring back Bo!<br \/>\nBring back Brett Favre too! The guy is great for the game and he&#8217;s still one of the best. Favre should not go to the Vikings; he should play for the Packers (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/cs-080717-brett-favre-chicago-bears-packers,0,5583580.column\">Bears<\/a>).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/14\/AR2008071401796.html?hpid=sec-religion\">Pro soccer player enters seminary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City lights of Chicago:<\/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-3884","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\/2008\/07\/weekly-meanderings-107.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weekly Meanderings - 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