{"id":4805,"date":"2009-04-25T00:08:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/04\/weekly-meanderings-143.html"},"modified":"2009-04-25T00:08:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:08:53","slug":"weekly-meanderings-143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/04\/weekly-meanderings-143.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Chicago is for Spring Bikers:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bikers.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/imgs\/Bikers.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"488\" height=\"316\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=792\">David Opderbeck<\/a> weighs in on faith and missional theology. <a href=\"http:\/\/erika.haub.net\/connected\/04\/\">Erika&#8217;s suggestive post<\/a> is worth your reading. And <a href=\"http:\/\/deepchurch.org.uk\/2009\/04\/20\/new-doctor-of-ministry-program-can-you-help-me\/\">Jason Clark <\/a>announces a new missional D.Min. effort he will direct. David Dunbar&#8217;s new piece in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblical.edu\/pages\/resources\/missional-journal.html\"><i>Missional Journal<\/i><\/a> is an excellent description of how to re-shape seminary in a missional direction (look at 2009, 3 &#8230; 2&#8230; Everything Changes). I wasn&#8217;t aware this piece of mine on <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_qa3817\/is_200209\/ai_n9129514\/\">why evangelicals become Catholic<\/a> was still online. (Does anyone know about this website?) [A newer version of this piece can be found in <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1602581622?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1602581622\">Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1602581622\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important;margin: 0px ! important\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karenzach.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/20\/a-life-wasted\/\">Here&#8217;s a good post and a good reminder<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardg.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/21\/princeton-and-the-myth-of-post-racial-america\/\">Another good reminder from Ed<\/a>. Check out this story from <a href=\"http:\/\/daddyroblog.blogs.com\/daddyroblog\/2009\/04\/a-story-to-touch-the-heart-and-inspire-the-soul.html\">Fr Rob<\/a>. One of the most common struggles for young leaders is schedule management; check out <a href=\"http:\/\/eugenecho.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/22\/my-work-space-and-rhythm-chaos-or-clarity\/\">Eugene&#8217;s reflections<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/the-love-of-jesus-is-enough-a-meditation-on-morality\">iMonk<\/a> probes moral reasoning through the issue of marijuana. John Frye reflects on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesustheradicalpastor.com\/the-gospel-of-the-slippery-slope\">slippery slope issue<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/stackblog.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/22\/what-public-good-is-a-christian-university-answer-1-research\/\">John Stackhouse<\/a> continues his series on the good of a Christian university. Evidently the <a href=\"http:\/\/tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com\/tallskinnykiwi\/2009\/04\/song-of-solomon-in-the-blogs.html\">Song of Solomon<\/a> has become a bit of an issue in blogdom. (We did a long series on this book a couple years back; I think it can be found under Love and Marriage.) <a href=\"http:\/\/vanguardchurch.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/passion-conference-and-jubilee.html\">NeoPuritan and NeoCalvinist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Karen&#8217;s from Oregon, where they are evidently more civlized than Wyoming. <a href=\"http:\/\/karenzach.wordpress.com\/\">Here&#8217;s what she wrote on her blog<\/a>: &#8220;Who is surprised that Cheney okayed the torture policy? Not me. He is<br \/>\nfrom Wyoming, after all. Not to trash talk those good folks who live<br \/>\nthere and don&#8217;t want to lay claim to him. Just saying, they do things<br \/>\ndifferently in the part of the country where taking a hot iron poker to<br \/>\nsomeone&#8217;s backside is a way of life, not torture.&#8221; ?!#$%@&amp;$# <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2009\/04\/23\/thoughts-on-making-money-blogging\/\">Blogging for money<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/a_60-second_trailer_of_the_60-day_report_on_cybers.php\">Cybersecurity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/HEALTH\/04\/23\/ep.facebook.addict\/index.html\">Facebook social dysfunction<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mandela.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/Mandela.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" width=\"192\" height=\"353\" \/><\/span>Dan Kimball and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dankimball.com\/vintage_faith\/2009\/04\/a-night-with-the-queen-of-rockabilly-who-loves-jesus.html\">Queen of Rockabilly<\/a>. <br \/>Good piece by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehighcalling.org\/Library\/ViewLibrary.asp?LibraryID=5009\">Christine Scheller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grasshoppersdreaming.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/new-perspective-and-openness-strange.html\">:mic has an excellent reflection<\/a> on the Tom Wright-John Piper new perspective debate. This should be a debate about Bible in context.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB123980920727621353-lMyQjAxMDI5MzI5MDgyMDA5Wj.html#printMode\">E-books<\/a> will change how we read. (HT: CK)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/columbine-a-word-for-evangelicals-ten-years-later\">iMonk on Columbine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/21\/health\/21well.html?_r=1&amp;em=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1240399941-gJiQdJXxdIWOnsk5JeCNDw\">Friendship and health<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We will be in SA in a few weeks, and I suspect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/20\/world\/africa\/20safrica.html?src=twt&amp;twt=nytimes\">post-election coverage<\/a> will be at a pitch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2009\/april\/24.42.html?start=1\">Doug Wilson<\/a> may interest some, but I can&#8217;t find a good enough reason for <i>CT<\/i> to profile him at this length.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/21\/science\/earth\/21tier.html?_r=1&amp;ref=science\">Does rich mean greener<\/a>? (HT: BB)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/oped\/2009\/04\/an-evangelicals-plea-love-the-sinner.html#more\">Does evangelical mean mean<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timbailey.typepad.com\/anotherthing\/2009\/04\/identify.html\">Thoughts or stories<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IHS.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/IHS.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;float: right\" width=\"265\" height=\"274\" \/><\/span>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/weekinreview\/19depalma.html?_r=1&amp;src=twt&amp;twt=nytimes\">Maybe a cup of cold water for Cuba<\/a> will lead to a cycle of grace within Cuba and with Cuba.<br \/>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/18\/AR2009041802203.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&amp;sub=AR\">Racial discrimination case due in the Supreme Court<\/a>.<br \/>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/panelists\/brian_d_mclaren\/2009\/04\/a_christian_nation_wouldnt_act_this_way.html\">Brian McLaren<\/a> on &#8220;are we a Christian nation?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/panelists\/charles_colson\/2009\/04\/presidents_statements_are_too_simplistic.html\">Colson<\/a> claims Obama&#8217;s statements were too simplistic.<br \/>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/travel\/19hostels.html?em\">Are youth hostels changing in Europe<\/a>?<br \/>5. <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=NzdmMmI2MzY4MjhmZmRlZDkzMTU2ZGI4ODNkNjFjMzg=\">Were the Tea Parties little more than tempest in a tea pot<\/a>?<br \/>6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/17\/opinion\/17brooks.html?em=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1240145347-eT50sh0ff4d0vAaXDZjHfQ\">A tough, scrappy country<\/a>. Good piece by Brooks.<br \/>7. <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=NjcyYzQxN2ZkNTJhOTg4YThlNWZmYmM4ZDc3ZTdmM2U=\">Obama and religious symbols<\/a> &#8212; some Catholics are irritated.<br \/>8. The average college student&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/LIVING\/wayoflife\/04\/19\/college.credit.cards\/index.html\">credit card debt<\/a> is not good. It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/18\/your-money\/student-loans\/18student.html?em\">serious issue<\/a> now for many.<br \/>9. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/19\/AR2009041902037.html?hpid=topnews\">Why the Civil War<\/a>?<br \/>10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20090420\/OPINION03\/904200317\/1008\/OPINION01\/Obama+abroad++In+some+ways++much+like+Bush\">Is Obama an accommodationist<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Sports:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">May the Lord add his blessing to &#8230;<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bully.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/imgs\/Bully.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"339\" height=\"239\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago is for Spring Bikers: David Opderbeck weighs in on faith and missional theology. 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