{"id":4113,"date":"2008-08-23T00:10:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T00:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/weekly-meanderings-112.html"},"modified":"2008-08-23T00:10:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T00:10:28","slug":"weekly-meanderings-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/weekly-meanderings-112.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a true Cub fan:<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/baldcub2.jpg\" title=\"baldcub2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2008\/08\/baldcub2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"baldcub2.jpg\" \/><\/a><!--more|inline--><br \/>\nChicago abuzz with an idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/nancybeach.typepad.com\/nancy_beach\/2008\/08\/the-power-of-a-captivating-idea.html\">James Meeks<\/a>.<br \/>\nTom Smith, in South Africa, reflecting on <a href=\"http:\/\/kleipotgemeente.typepad.com\/soulgardeners\/2008\/08\/church-and-miss.html\">church transformation<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/seedlingsinstone.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/find-poem-pick-it-up.html\">LL Barkat <\/a>reflects on &#8220;finding&#8221; a poem. <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardg.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/20\/race-as-a-theological-problem\/\">Ed Gilbreath<\/a> has a good post on race as a theological problem. OK, I think David&#8217;s got a burr under his saddle on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemission.com\/2008\/08\/when-they-will-not-come-2-community_20.html\">anti-attractional stuff<\/a>, but I have to say that Fitch always has something to say. <a href=\"http:\/\/erika.haub.net\/final-score\/08\/\">Will we know?<\/a>, Erika asks. Michael Kruse puts the spin on the <a href=\"http:\/\/krusekronicle.typepad.com\/kruse_kronicle\/2008\/08\/prosperity-the-mission-of-god.html\">&#8220;prosperity gospel&#8221;<\/a> &#8230;. read it. JR Briggs on <a href=\"http:\/\/brokenstainedglass.typepad.com\/broken_stained_glass\/2008\/08\/jesus-and-xenop.html\">xenophobia and Jesus<\/a>. And Pastor Jim Martin graces us with some reflections on <a href=\"http:\/\/godhungry.org\/?p=988\">expectations<\/a>.<br \/>\niMonk is one of the best bloggers around: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/surprising-encouragement\">check this post out<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jibstay.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/fired-for-blog.html\">Pastoral wisdom<\/a> on the implications of blogging.<br \/>\n1. Wind turbines: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/LIVING\/wayoflife\/08\/17\/bitter.wind.ap\/index.html\">the downside<\/a>.<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/18\/AR2008081801850.html\">EJ Dionne on evangelical poliltics<\/a>.<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relevantmagazine.com\/god_article.php?id=7552\">Spiritual drift<\/a>?<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masieweb.com\/external\/most-memorable-teacher.html\">Your most influential teacher<\/a>?<br \/>\n5. Is anyone using &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuil.com\/\">Cuil<\/a>&#8221; as the search engine?<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/warner.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/21\/starve-the-beast\/index.html?hp\">Who needs to know<\/a>?<br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/22\/opinion\/22krugman.html?em\">This<\/a> is where politics has gotten messy the last 20 years or so. It just isn&#8217;t according to script on economics and party.<br \/>\n8. <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/postglobal\/pomfretschina\/2008\/08\/so_is_sentencing_grannies_a_si.html\">Indeed<\/a>.<br \/>\n9. This one is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/21\/AR2008082102845.html?hpid=sec-religion\">worth a good discussion over lunch<\/a>.<br \/>\nSports:<br \/>\nOne word: Olympics!<br \/>\nNo, two words: Olympics and &#8220;How &#8217;bout dem Cubs!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a true Cub fan:<\/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-4113","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\/08\/weekly-meanderings-112.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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