{"id":284,"date":"2007-11-19T09:14:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T09:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html"},"modified":"2007-11-19T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T09:14:49","slug":"the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"The weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Paint.
\nHave almost the whole area re-painted, a sophisticated steely-gray-bluish thing, replacing the faintly flowery wallpaper that was up before. The problem has been for me, given the countours of the space…how much color to put up and where to stop? I don’t think we want the whole blessed first floor that color, but determining the point of transition is a bit of a challenge for the design-deficient among us, which is all of us.
\n2. Bella <\/em>
\nMichael and I went and saw Bella <\/em>Friday night. It was a small film with some awkwardness and amateurishness\u00a0about it, but worth seeing. I think young people would enjoy it and be moved by it. It’s not the greatest film ever made and has been overhyped in\u00a0some quarters in that sense, \u00a0but by no means is it a total hack job unworthy of anyone’s time, either.
\n3. Alex Jones
\nFormer Pentecostal minister Alex Jones was in town over the weekend<\/a>, and I took Katie to see him on Friday afternoon – the only time out of her busy schedule that she’d be free. When I got there, I learned that he’d been at the Catholic high school in the morning, but that hadn’t been publicized – if I’d known he was going to be there, I would have taken her over there. Ah, well. His presentation on Friday afternoon was fairly low-key and unfortunately didn’t go into as much detail on his conversion as I imagine the evening presentations did, but it was worth the time – I saw, out of the corner of my eye, Katie give rather interested assent when he described moving from his former Protestant home to Catholicism as akin to moving from a smal box into a whole new place, rich and universal.
\nSpeaking of conversion…Aimee Milburn <\/a>turns up another well-written story – this time coming into full Communion from the Episcopal Church. <\/a>And over at Et, Tu, Jen (who has made the journey from atheist to Catholic) shares 5 Catholic Teachings That Just Kinda Made Sense to Me. <\/a>
\nAnd today…
\n<\/a>
\n\"redcoat\"<\/a>
\nSomeone is 3 years old…
\nHard to believe. Treasure it, folks, ’cause it just flies….<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Paint. Have almost the whole area re-painted, a sophisticated steely-gray-bluish thing, replacing the faintly flowery wallpaper that was up before. The problem has been for me, given the countours of the space…how much color to put up and where to stop? I don’t think we want the whole blessed first floor that color, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nThe weekend - Via Media<\/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\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The weekend - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1. Paint. Have almost the whole area re-painted, a sophisticated steely-gray-bluish thing, replacing the faintly flowery wallpaper that was up before. The problem has been for me, given the countours of the space…how much color to put up and where to stop? I don’t think we want the whole blessed first floor that color, but…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-11-19T09:14:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/photos\/jacob\/jacobone.JPG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"awelborn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The weekend - Via Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The weekend - Via Media","og_description":"1. Paint. Have almost the whole area re-painted, a sophisticated steely-gray-bluish thing, replacing the faintly flowery wallpaper that was up before. The problem has been for me, given the countours of the space…how much color to put up and where to stop? I don’t think we want the whole blessed first floor that color, but…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html","og_site_name":"Via Media","article_published_time":"2007-11-19T09:14:49+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/photos\/jacob\/jacobone.JPG"}],"author":"awelborn","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html","name":"The weekend - Via Media","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/photos\/jacob\/jacobone.JPG","datePublished":"2007-11-19T09:14:49+00:00","dateModified":"2007-11-19T09:14:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/photos\/jacob\/jacobone.JPG","contentUrl":"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/photos\/jacob\/jacobone.JPG"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/the-weekend.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The weekend"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/","name":"Via Media","description":"Amy Welborn","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a","name":"awelborn","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","caption":"awelborn"},"description":"Amy Welborn was born in 1960, the only child of a now-retired professor of political science, a teacher-librarian-artist mother,deceased since 2001, was a teacher, librarian and artist. The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel. Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/author\/awelborn"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}