{"id":4354,"date":"2008-10-04T00:10:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T00:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/10\/weekly-meanderings-118.html"},"modified":"2008-10-04T00:10:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T00:10:24","slug":"weekly-meanderings-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/10\/weekly-meanderings-118.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waking up to Chicago &#8230;.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sunrise1.jpg\" title=\"sunrise1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2008\/09\/sunrise1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"sunrise1.jpg\" \/><\/a><!--more|inline--><br \/>\nAs they say, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/30\/opinion\/30glanville.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">worth the price of admission<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\nHere is <a href=\"http:\/\/icrucified.com\/icruciblog\/\">a good blog with a cool appearance<\/a>. And Jeff has <a href=\"http:\/\/icrucified.com\/icruciblog\/archives\/category\/love-series\">a good series on love<\/a> you might want to read.<br \/>\nNancy Beach on trying not to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/nancybeach.typepad.com\/nancy_beach\/2008\/09\/helicopter-parents.html\">helicopter parent<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/eugenecho.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/30\/why-blogging-matters\/\">Why is it that so many blog<\/a>? Eugene Cho explores that topic. Another topic of interest to each of us &#8212; at least each of us over 40 or so &#8212; is aging and <a href=\"http:\/\/daddyroblog.blogs.com\/daddyroblog\/2008\/09\/life-at-50.html\">Fr Rob<\/a> reflects on turning 50. One of the issues in denominational politics is whether or not to recognize the baptism of someone baptized differently or into a different denomination. iMonk has a few posts about this, and they begin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/rebaptism-what-is-it\">here<\/a>. Another church issue these days is <a href=\"http:\/\/jibstay.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/when-your-kids-hurtat-hands-of-another.html\">premarital counseling<\/a> and, evidently, some churches aren&#8217;t too sure about helping out couples when both don&#8217;t attend the church. Speaking of church issues, Michael Kruse helps us out by gathering together posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/krusekronicle.typepad.com\/kruse_kronicle\/2008\/09\/women-and-ministry---scot-mcknight.html\">women in ministry<\/a>. Tamara Buchan reflects on <a href=\"http:\/\/missiolux.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/fear-or-faith.html\">fear and faith<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardg.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/30\/race-and-identity-politics-reconsidered\/\">Ed<\/a> gathers some links on race and politics.<br \/>\nOn the never-ending analysis of emerging, <a href=\"http:\/\/tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com\/tallskinnykiwi\/2008\/09\/ed-stetzer-on-t.html\">TSK points us to Ed Stetzer&#8217;s recent study<\/a>, which I consider to be one of the best out there.<br \/>\n1. Anyone explain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/09\/27\/prime.number.ap\/index.html\">this one<\/a> for us? How many pages does it take to write out this number?<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/28\/business\/28view.html?8dpc\">Peter Bernstein<\/a> helped me understand the bailout issues.<br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/25\/AR2008092503385.html?hpid%3Dfeatures1%26hpv%3http:\/\/www.http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com:80\/ac2\/wp-dyn?node=admin\/registration\/register&amp;sub=AR\">Energy vampires<\/a>.<br \/>\n4. What are your thoughts on the <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/guestvoices\/2008\/09\/pulpit_initiative_about_freedo.html\">Alliance Defense Fund&#8217;s Pulpit Initiative<\/a>?<br \/>\n5. A good editorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/article\/2008-09-29-motlanthe-the-man-in-middle\">Motlanthe<\/a> in South Africa.<br \/>\n6. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/29\/AR2008092903325.html?nav%3Dhcmodule&amp;sub=AR\">To a degree that few Americans could have appreciated just a few weeks ago, the economy runs on credit. But politics runs on a form of credit, too, generically known as trust, and trust has been a scarce commodity recently in Washington<\/a>.&#8221; And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/29\/AR2008092902762.html?hpid=topnews\">Pearlstein<\/a> turns around to say the people don&#8217;t get it.<br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/religionfromtheheart\/2008\/09\/losing_the_spirit_on_wall_stre.html\">Timothy Shriver<\/a> on the monster we face today.<br \/>\n8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/01\/opinion\/01buchanan.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">Mark Buchanan on economic theory<\/a>.<br \/>\n9. Kris and I have been planting <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/shoptoit\/2008\/09\/buying_native_cheaper_and_gree.html?hpid=smartliving\">native plants<\/a> this year. When the rain wouldn&#8217;t let up we pulled out a small shovel and found it quite easy to plant some maiden grasses along our fence row.<br \/>\nSports:<br \/>\n104 year old Leo Hildenbrand throws out the first pitch at a Cubs game.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/leo1.jpg\" title=\"leo1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2008\/09\/leo1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"leo1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waking up to Chicago &#8230;.<\/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-4354","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 - 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