{"id":5311,"date":"2010-01-23T00:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/weekly-meanderings-178.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T00:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:40:42","slug":"weekly-meanderings-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/weekly-meanderings-178.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/AkselSlide-10881.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/AkselSlide-thumb-333x587-10881.jpg\" alt=\"AkselSlide.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;float: right\" height=\"587\" width=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>I&#8217;m in Texas this weekend speaking to the leaders of Irving Bible Church and Kris is in the State of New York at a wedding shower for our niece, Kari Arnet. See you Sunday evening, Kris.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To the right is our grandson, Aksel, hanging with his mom and dad in Florida. Kris thinks he&#8217;s the cutest kid ever &#8230; just sayin&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The man who is one of Aksel&#8217;s great grandpa, Kris&#8217; dad, <a href=\"http:\/\/daddyroblog.blogs.com\/daddyroblog\/2010\/01\/the-man-room.html\">had a man&#8217;s room just like this one<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Andrew Chignell on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.somareview.com\/whitherwheaton.cfm\">Whither Wheaton<\/a>?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Andrew Root on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tonyj.net\/2010\/01\/souls-in-transition-guest-post-by-andrew-root\/\">Whither Youth<\/a>?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/january\/20.14.html?start=1\">Sarah Pulliam Bailey<\/a> on Facebook religious identification.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=9598134\">Women outearning men<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandleadership.duke.edu\/blog\/01-21-2010\/john-schmalzbauer-editors-more-important-bishops\">This was a good piece on the influence of magazines<\/a>; the piece caught my interest because it suggested it might be about editors &#8212; and now we await a piece on the influence of prominent editors. One thinks of Carl Henry to Mark Galli, Charles Clayton Morrison to John Buchanan, and of Richard John Neuhaus.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/livelydust.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/earth-to-washington-baby-steps-wont.html\">LaVonne<\/a> on &#8220;incremental steps.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s another step: <a href=\"http:\/\/morethanservingtea.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/20\/saying-goodbye-to-the-green-card-testing\/\">Kathy<\/a> becomes an American! Yoohoo.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Meanderings in the News<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. On Haiti: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v26\/n08\/paul-farmer\/who-removed-aristide\">this well-known and wide-ranging, if not unwieldy, piece by Paul Farmer<\/a> expounds one view while some of the extensive comments present the other side.<\/div>\n<div>2. On Haiti: there are so many stories to tell, <a href=\"http:\/\/pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/01\/17\/the-only-doc\/?hpt=T1\">but this one about a doctor, all alone<\/a>, with hundreds of wounded people but who had insufficient supplies&#8230; moving story.<\/div>\n<div>3. They <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2010\/01\/new_york_times_set_to_mimic_ws.html\">NYTimes may change online reading by charging readers<\/a> &#8230; and that would surely change the reposting approach to news discussions.<\/div>\n<div>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/16\/us\/16church.html?emc=eta1\">Quite the admission<\/a>: <span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like we&#8217;ve got more going on in our parking lot than we do within the walls of the church,&#8221; said the pastor, Craig Goodwin.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/europe\/01\/20\/glacier.melt.comparison.climate.change\/index.html?iref=allsearch\">Wow, here&#8217;s evidence for glacier meltdown<\/a>:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/GlacierMelt-10936.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/GlacierMelt-thumb-333x182-10936.jpg\" alt=\"GlacierMelt.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"182\" width=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/17\/AR2010011703281.html?nav=hcmodule\">Discouraging news<\/a> about some discouraging African Americans.<\/div>\n<div>6. <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=YmVhZTVhYmY2ODAwYjRhYjUyNDZmNjMzY2RkNzAwNGY=\">Marcus Winters<\/a> on teacher evaluations.<\/div>\n<div>7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2010\/0117\/In-Haiti-earthquake-response-Bush-distances-himself-from-Cheney\">President Bush <\/a>takes the high road.<\/div>\n<div>8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/18\/opinion\/18krugman.html?hp\">Paul Krugman <\/a>on Obama&#8217;s decisions: &#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The Obama administration&#8217;s troubles are the result not of excessive ambition, but of policy and political misjudgments. The stimulus was too small; policy toward the banks wasn&#8217;t tough enough; and Mr. Obama didn&#8217;t do what Ronald Reagan, who also faced a poor economy early in his administration, did &#8212; namely, shelter himself from criticism with a narrative that placed the blame on previous administrations.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>9. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/archive\/2010\/01\/hbc-90006368\">I read this piece<\/a>; it&#8217;s long; its sick.<\/div>\n<div>10. <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/2010\/01\/media_bias_against_christianit\/all.html\">The Britt Hume controversy<\/a>: what most interested me was the number of comments on the various editorialist&#8217;s views.<\/div>\n<div>11. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/man_stuck_in_no_mans_land?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">Third Way Pizza<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>12. Third Way Business practices: <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/01\/21\/technology\/sas_best_companies.fortune\/index.htm\">SAS and Dr. Goodnight<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/ChicagoRunn-10905.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/ChicagoRunn-thumb-333x151-10905.jpg\" alt=\"ChicagoRunn.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"151\" width=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Meanderings in Sports<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/golf\/chi-18-pga-donald-jan18,0,5426941.story\">Luke Donald<\/a> decides to fire his caddie &#8212; who happens to be his brother.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The only teams I&#8217;ve seen like UConn&#8217;s women&#8217;s basketball team were Johnny Wooden&#8217;s great teams at UCLA. I don&#8217;t remember such superiority.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Texas this weekend speaking to the leaders of Irving Bible Church and Kris is in the State of New York at a wedding shower for our niece, Kari Arnet. See you Sunday evening, Kris.&nbsp; To the right is our grandson, Aksel, hanging with his mom and dad in Florida. 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