{"id":564,"date":"2005-12-24T07:42:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T07:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2005\/12\/blogs-of-the-week-15.html"},"modified":"2005-12-24T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T07:42:02","slug":"blogs-of-the-week-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2005\/12\/blogs-of-the-week-15.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogs of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This <strong>blogs of the week<\/strong> has been getting some attention of late, and I can&#8217;t possibly read everyone&#8217;s blog every day or week, so if you find something particularly worthy of note, let me know &#8212; and even if you think you&#8217;ve written a particularly good post this week and want some attention for it, let me know. I can&#8217;t promise anyone anything on this, but I&#8217;ll do what I can to pass along good posts for the week. When blogging came onto my radar I thought I&#8217;d be able to give up footnoting &#8212; a burden of writing &#8212; but I&#8217;ll do my best to use HT.<\/em><br \/>\nPride of place this week goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/s-littlefield.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/divine-hours-revisited.html\">Stacey Littlefield&#8217;s description<\/a> of his experience in praying the hours. I hope more join us.<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nAnd also pride of place goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subversiveinfluence.com\/wordpress\/?p=497\">Brother Maynard&#8217;s post<\/a> about Christmas.<br \/>\nThis is why blogging is fun: <a href=\"http:\/\/purgatorio1.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/you-know-youve-attained.html\">check this out, one of a kind, funny<\/a>.<br \/>\n1. Andrew Jones provides <a href=\"http:\/\/tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com\/tallskinnykiwi\/2005\/12\/best_books_on_e.html#comments\">a global map<\/a> of emerging church studies.<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergentkiwi.org.nz\/archives\/emerging_church_postcards05.php\">Steve Taylor reminds,<\/a> yet again, that emerging is global. Maybe, someday, we will let this sink in and see that emerging is big, big, big.<br \/>\n3. Rob Merola, priest, friend, and former student, who in his day was an awesome weightlifter, has weighed in on <a href=\"http:\/\/stmatthewssterling.com\/RobRecommendsDetail.aspx?DocumentID=318\">King Kong<\/a>. He always has good reflections on movies. <a href=\"http:\/\/daddyroblog.blogs.com\/daddyroblog\/2005\/12\/egg_nog_ice_cre.html#comments\">His shift to manicures<\/a>, though, surprised both Kris and me.<br \/>\n4. Michael Bird is not the first to say this, and neither is it a new idea, but it worth pointing out that many don&#8217;t think Jesus was a &#8220;carpenter&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelfbird.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/jesus-stonemason.html\">an artisan who worked with stone<\/a>. See his comment and the comments on his comment.<br \/>\n5. Hide your kids: <a href=\"http:\/\/members.cox.net.nyud.net:8090\/jmccorm\/santa.html\">Santa has been hacked<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santasez.sig-ad.com\/\">this one<\/a>, too.(HT: Dave Anderson)<br \/>\n6. Karen and her daughter <a href=\"http:\/\/spearszacharias.bravejournal.com\/entry\/15831\">are in a tiff<\/a>.<br \/>\n7. I like Frank Viola&#8217;s piece in The Ooze on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theooze.com\/articles\/article.cfm?id=1179\">why the Bible is a story and not a jigsaw puzzle<\/a>. (I&#8217;d like to see more on the distinction between a systematic theology and his understanding of &#8220;story&#8221; for it is easy to call our a systematic theology a story.)<br \/>\n8. Joel Osteen and his wife, Victoria, live in a fish bowl, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/3538956.html\">when they get into scrapes<\/a> with the airlines the whole world gets to watch. They gave them seven steps off the plane, and it is sad. (HT: Lukas McKnight who HTs TSK) OK, off the list, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevekmccoy.com\/reformissionary\/2005\/12\/her_best_life_n.html#comments\">Steve McCoy&#8217;s humor <\/a>at work again.<br \/>\n9. Steps, <a href=\"http:\/\/mcknightro.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/steps.html\">and more steps<\/a>, and then some more.<br \/>\n10. I evidently lost in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevekmccoy.com\/sbc\/2005\/12\/google_fight.html#comments\">my fight with Brian McKnight<\/a>, but wasn&#8217;t aware we were even in a scrape.<br \/>\nAnd now, to end with a bit of a flurry, Bob Robinson&#8217;s posts on the &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; hooie both <a href=\"http:\/\/vanguardchurch.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/james-dobson-misses-point-again.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vanguardchurch.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/mohler-questions-happy-holidays-battle.html\">here<\/a>, should make us think one more time about why it is that some Christians are intent on &#8220;taking back America&#8221; &#8212; as if we need another Constantinian design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blogs of the week has been getting some attention of late, and I can&#8217;t possibly read everyone&#8217;s blog every day or week, so if you find something particularly worthy of note, let me know &#8212; and even if you think you&#8217;ve written a particularly good post this week and want some attention for it,&hellip;<\/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-564","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-15.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=\"This blogs of the week has been getting some attention of late, and I can&#8217;t possibly read everyone&#8217;s blog every day or week, so if you find something particularly worthy of note, let me know &#8212; 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