{"id":527,"date":"2005-12-10T00:08:58","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T00:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2005\/12\/blogs-of-the-week-13.html"},"modified":"2005-12-10T00:08:58","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T00:08:58","slug":"blogs-of-the-week-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2005\/12\/blogs-of-the-week-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogs of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of blogs in my blogs of the week.<br \/>\nThe very top of my blog list this week is <a href=\"http:\/\/spearszacharias.bravejournal.com\/\">Karen Spears Zacharias&#8217; funny stories<\/a> on her blog, <em>Sit and Spit<\/em>. Her experience with the friend who calls it &#8220;E-Rac&#8221; and the doctor thinking it was &#8220;wreck&#8221; &#8212; well, you read it. <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nEmerging stuff on:<br \/>\n1. Finally, someone got <a href=\"http:\/\/purgatorio1.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/you-might-be-emerging-if.html\">the definition of Emerging folks accurate<\/a> &#8212; and gave them visual images to go by.<br \/>\n2. Michael Lee does it with <a href=\"http:\/\/addisonrd.com\/WordPress\/?p=295\">words<\/a>.<br \/>\n3. And how about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregaustin.org\/emergingdef.htm\">this raving definition<\/a> by Greg Austin?\\<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/emergentvoyageurs.blog.com\/439230\/\">Jamie Arpin-Ricci<\/a> posts a chapter he&#8217;s written on diversity.<br \/>\n5. Marko&#8217;s series of a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ysmarko.com\/?p=290#postcomment\">rant by a runt<\/a>&#8221; is well worth the read, just to get us thinking about stuff. It begins with this post and will run to ten different posts. Marko, that&#8217;s longer than any of mine!<br \/>\nEmerging stuff over:<br \/>\n6. Karen Spears Zacharias, <a href=\"http:\/\/spearszacharias.bravejournal.com\/entry\/15576\">over at Sit and Spit<\/a>, has a series of letters now starting up to her daughter as her daughter prepares for her wedding in a month. Don&#8217;t encourage her, though, as she might start telling us stuff we don&#8217;t want to hear! She&#8217;s gettin&#8217; close on Dec 9. Atta girl, Karen. You&#8217;re the first to make it twice in the same blog of the week.<br \/>\n7. Karen is worried about her daughter, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedreligion.com\/?p=142\">Brad Bergfalk didn&#8217;t know<\/a> where his was. Good thing, because she becomes a parable.<br \/>\nStudent of the Year: Here&#8217;s a prospective college student <a href=\"http:\/\/mcknightro.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/best-college-essay-ever.html\">who understands himself<\/a>. (HT: Lukas McKnight)<br \/>\n8. I commented on the greatest sport to watch now, <a href=\"http:\/\/deezdawgs.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/greatest-athlete-ever.html\">and now Jay Baehr<\/a>, who I think plays soccer, has done some &#8220;serious&#8221; research.<br \/>\nEmerging marriage: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevekmccoy.com\/reformissionary\/2005\/12\/my_real_wife.html#comments\">Steve McCoy&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of blogs in my blogs of the week. The very top of my blog list this week is Karen Spears Zacharias&#8217; funny stories on her blog, Sit and Spit. Her experience with the friend who calls it &#8220;E-Rac&#8221; and the doctor thinking it was &#8220;wreck&#8221; &#8212; well, you read it.<\/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-527","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>Blogs of the Week - 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\/2005\/12\/blogs-of-the-week-13.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blogs of the Week - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lots of blogs in my blogs of the week. 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