Jesus Creed
I read through my blog reader this week and, wow, well a bundle of my bloggers didn’t write one post this week … so we’re a bit thin.
Mike Breen asks why missional communities need to be 20-50 people.
Michael Bird has an excellent post. Justin Topp on Karl Giberson: Part one and Part two. And not to give you too many multi-phase posts, Josh Graves has a fascinating set of e-mail exchanges with Saint Matthew — the one who wrote the First Gospel.
Out of Ur on Women in Ministry.
It’s about time, April.
A wonderful reminder from my friend Jim Martin.
Very interesting post about Ireland about Patrick, but does anyone know how to pronounce that Archbishop’s first name?
Bishop Kallistos Ware told us the Orthodox venerate the Gospels but asked if they knew what’s between the covers. Here’s a test to find out.
Meanderings in the News
1. Do you eat breakfast on the go? Here’s advice: “(Health.com) — Used to be, when you grabbed breakfast on the go, it was a diet disaster: nothing but fat-and-calorie bombs like butter-soaked croissants and jumbo muffins. Now, it’s much easier to do right by your body: Fast-food legends like McDonald’s and IHOP, as well as newbies like Cosi and Panera Bread, offer surprisingly healthy options that are filling, light, and much easier on your arteries. The key to finding a healthy breakfast, says Christine Gerbstadt, MD, RD, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, is finding a good-for-you mix of complex carbs (like whole grains), protein, and healthy fats to keep you satisfied.”
2. On stuttering, by Elizabeth Landau: “About half of stutterers have a clear family history of this speech disorder, said Dennis Drayna of the National Institutes of Health. But Drayna thinks this is in an underestimate for the genetic influence.”
3. We’ve got a ROMEO in our town, though I’m sure it doesn’t go by that name: “”ROMEO (retired old men eating out) groups spring up all over the United States,” Stinson tells CNN. “They have no organization, no members, no requirements, no dues and no officers, and if you try to organize it, you have a riot on your hands.”
4. Movies about Presidents, by Bob Greene: “Presidents will continue to make their way to movie-theater screens; “Frost/Nixon” was a wonderfully written and acted drama, but Richard Nixon, audiences knew in advance, was going to come out the vanquished, the foil. There will always be a place for valorous fictionalized presidents-who-never-were; “The American President,” “Dave,” “Air Force One”– ticket buyers will never lose their willingness to root for a cinematic president who in real life never held office. But the main reason we may not see blithely laudatory feature film bios in the future is that they might risk drawing laughs from (or inciting fistfights among) the conditioned-to-be-reflexively-partisan audience members out in the dark. Show-business executives seem to have concluded that our contemporary presidents of the post-Eisenhower years simply won’t pass marketplace muster as box-office heroes anymore. For better or for worse, we may feel that we have become too smart for that.”
5. Top Ten Smartest States. I’m surprised about Minnesota but not about Wisconsin.
6. Riva Richmond: “Most malicious incidents on mobile devices involve bogus phone or text-message charges or rogue mobile applications, of which there are now more than 500 varieties, according to F-Secure, a Finnish security firm. All these ruses require users to take some kind of action, like clicking to accept or install a program, so caution while using mobile devices can prevent most problems. (However, experts warn that automated attacks are possible and could emerge in the future.)”
7. Huckabee in hot water: “Former Arkansas governor and 2012 presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee found himself in hot water this week after he called Islam the “antithesis of the gospel of Christ” and said that churches that share worship space with Muslims are caving to a religion “that says that Jesus Christ and all the people that follow him are a bunch of infidels who should be essentially obliterated.”
8. Brian Palmer asks why we don’t play cricket.
9. CSM: “The latest Gallup poll indicates that Mike Huckabee is now the most popular of the possible GOP contenders to run against Barack Obama in 2012. And it just so happens that the former Arkansas governor is visiting Iowa this week – to tout his latest book but perhaps also to test the campaign waters.”
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