{"id":733,"date":"2006-02-25T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/02\/blogs-of-the-week-22.html"},"modified":"2006-02-25T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T06:00:02","slug":"blogs-of-the-week-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/02\/blogs-of-the-week-22.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogs of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5230164\">Good story of the week<\/a>: HT to Bob Smietana.<br \/>\nNew blog of the week I&#8217;ve found: Donn Johnson, formerly a Covenant pastor up in Minneapolis and now (feel sorry for him) in Santa Barbara, has a blog called &#8220;Jibstay.&#8221; Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/jibstay.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/captured.html\">this post on rescuing seals <\/a>&#8212; which doesn&#8217;t happen in Minneapolis.<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been in San Diego hanging out with pastors and not had as much time for blogs of the week, but here are some I came across:<br \/>\nThis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dankimball.com\/vintage_faith\/2006\/02\/the_higher_the_.html#comments\">explains it <\/a>(Dan&#8217;s hair).<br \/>\nBy the looks of it, I may be one of the very few in the Western world who does not yet have a cell phone. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/biztech\/02\/17\/rim.cfo.reut\/index.html\">news about Blackberry<\/a>, and I think it is a cell phone, makes me think some others might soon be joining me. My colleage, Boaz, has a Blackberry. Commuting time for me is not time for phone calls, but time for prayer and listening to Andrea Bocelli. When do those Blackberry folk do those things? Latest news is <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/02\/24\/technology\/blackberry\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">good for Blackberry owners<\/a>, and I saw lots of them in San Diego.<br \/>\nFr. Rob speaks for many who are priests in the Episcopal Church when he weighs in on why he is Episcopalian. <a href=\"http:\/\/daddyroblog.blogs.com\/daddyroblog\/2006\/02\/why_i_am_an_epi.html\">Part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/daddyroblog.blogs.com\/daddyroblog\/2006\/02\/why_i_am_an_eps.html\">Part 2<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/daddyroblog.blogs.com\/daddyroblog\/2006\/02\/why_im_an_episc.html\">Part 3<\/a>. Join him in that conversation. It&#8217;s not quite a &#8220;Ask Father Rob&#8221; but getting there.<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/kerrydoyal.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/thanking-god-for-gift-of-marriage.html#comments\">Kerry Doyal&#8217;s eulogy of his wife<\/a>, Robin, and marriage. Good job Kerry. What did Robin think of this one?<br \/>\n2. So it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/LAW\/02\/19\/fries.suits.ap\/index.html\">wheat and milk <\/a>that makes McDonald&#8217;s fries what they are? What&#8217;s in the burger?  Kris has an inborn GPS in her mind that detects if I go to McDonald&#8217;s, and my doctor has made his points with me.<br \/>\n3. I did not grow up Wesleyan, and am not Wesleyan today, but I&#8217;ve always found his reading a spiritual challenge. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/arbevere.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/quotable-john-wesley.html\">Allan Bevere for including some of his quotations <\/a>&#8212; and Wesley was a master with words.<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/ptech\/02\/17\/apple.hacker.poem.ap\/index.html\">Ode to worms<\/a>.<br \/>\n5. The fellas <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2006\/baseball\/mlb\/02\/19\/bonds.retirement.ap\/index.html\">, like Bonds<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2006\/baseball\/mlb\/02\/16\/bc.bbn.sosareax.ap\/index.html\">Sosa<\/a>, who had help making muscles are starting to retire. I wonder why.<br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ysmarko.com\/?p=398#comments\">Marko does it again<\/a>: great story of reconciliation.<br \/>\n7. Jim Martin and I had breakfast this week, and now I see <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmartin.typepad.com\/place\/2006\/02\/if_jesus_told_t.html#comments\">this post of his <\/a>and think it is an excellent reflection.<br \/>\n8. Joe Thorn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joethorn.net\/2006\/02\/24\/a-thousand-words-for-the-weekend-2\/\">picture<\/a> is magnificent &#8212; reminds me of what it looked like in San Diego this week.<br \/>\nProbably many of us have watched some Winter Olympics; I like the competition of speed skating and the zaniness of flying downhill on skis at 60mph, but <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/olympics\/2006\/sports\/figure_skating\/\">when judges are deciding <\/a>winners, the sport is no longer sport but entertainment. For me, a rule for determining if something is a sport is that there has to be a ball involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good story of the week: HT to Bob Smietana. New blog of the week I&#8217;ve found: Donn Johnson, formerly a Covenant pastor up in Minneapolis and now (feel sorry for him) in Santa Barbara, has a blog called &#8220;Jibstay.&#8221; Check out this post on rescuing seals &#8212; which doesn&#8217;t happen in Minneapolis.<\/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-733","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\/2006\/02\/blogs-of-the-week-22.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=\"Good story of the week: HT to Bob Smietana. 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