Weekly Meanderings

St Patrick’s Day in Chicago, NCAA tournament, and pastoral ministry:

Here’s how they dye the Chicago River green.
Grandma’s marked-up Bible.
Jim Martin on a pastor’s seven deadly sins. Part two.
Pastoral and thoughtful.
Here’s a story worth reading: Barack’s mother. And here’s some more about Barack’s family and father.
Obama’s speech: YouTube and printed form.
Overheard: Bo Ryan, head basketball coach at Wisconsin, on his game with Illinois for the Big Ten championship game: “We’ll just take it one possession at a time. I know that’s a cliche, but the reason it’s a cliche is because it’s true.” AFLAC!
Andy Rowell’s excellent post on the use of technology for teaching youth. (HT: Jim Martin) My suggestion: prepare your stuff and let the stuff shape the media chosen.
The Archbishop on writing. (HT: JB)
Nothing like a good story from a good storyteller.
Marko on male pronouns for God.
Gospels online … cool resource.
By the way, RedBlueChristian.com is a healthy, active political blog.
1. Sad report of the world’s dirtiest cities.
2. A season of pastoral challenges from Don Johnson.
3. Muffin theology and Mercy theology.
4. Homeschools and women’s basketball.
5. Christians and sex. (HT: Jim Martin)
6. Another interesting study of East vs. West on reading the mood of a person.
7. Tony Stiff summarizes Tim Keller’s new book.
8. Wow, quite the story of Gorbachev. (HT: Michael Kruse)
9. Professors, Facebook, etc.
10. Sorry, Marko, to put this down here, but I’m running out of space.
Which is the best rock and roll song? Is it this? I think it’s this:

Or maybe this:

Sports:
Lorena Ochoa — the toast of Mexico and #1 women’s golfer in the world.
The Cubs closer (Kerry Wood) and igniter (Fukudome):

Those lovable, generous Cubs.
Seven in a row, or five in a row … it doesn’t matter. Tiger’s the best.