{"id":6674,"date":"2010-02-20T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/20\/weekly-meanderings-203\/"},"modified":"2010-02-20T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T05:00:48","slug":"weekly-meanderings-203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/02\/20\/weekly-meanderings-203\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Kris and I are in Katy, Texas, just outside Houston, this weekend. I\u2019m speaking at First Methodist in Katy<\/a>, and we\u2019re looking forward to spending time with Marlin Fenn and the good folks at Katy. (Two weekends in a row on the road has limited my computer time, so I apologize for not having as many links today.)<\/div>\n
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My favorite Olympic winner: the Flying Tomato<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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One of our readers (Ted) reviews another (Allan)<\/b><\/a> about a book Allan wrote. Great.<\/div>\n
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\"ErnieBanks.jpg\"<\/a>A new blog worth reading: Slant33<\/a>. (I\u2019ll be one of the writers at this blog.)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Ernie Banks doesn\u2019t care if it\u2019s snowing down on him, let\u2019s play ball!<\/div>\n
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A Lenten reflection by Michael Thompson<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
Graphic image<\/b><\/a>, but one used by writers all the time.<\/div>\n
A Lenten suggestion \u2014 who\u2019ll take up LaVonne\u2019s challenge<\/b><\/a>?<\/div>\n
Another good Lenten reflection by Brett<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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David Fitch <\/b><\/a>has a great conversation going about autocratic, democratic and incarnational approaches to church debates.<\/div>\n
Derek Leman<\/b><\/a> has a nice post comparing Bernard of Clairvaux with the rabbinic midrash on Song of Songs.<\/div>\n
Richard Mouw<\/b><\/a> on interreligious dialogue.<\/div>\n
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A good source for families<\/b><\/a> who want to follow the Church calendar.<\/div>\n
Good post about older folks and technology<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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On denominations<\/b><\/a> \u2026 thoughtful.<\/div>\n
On denominationalism<\/b><\/a> \u2026 thoughtful.<\/div>\n
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Did you see this review of Hannam\u2019s history of faith and science<\/b><\/a>? Well-written review.<\/div>\n
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Meanderings in the News<\/div>\n
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1. It\u2019s all in your head<\/a>! (That is, your politics is in your hard-wiring.)<\/div>\n
2. On climate change politics<\/b><\/a>: \u201cClimate researchers say the errors do not disprove the U.N. panel\u2019s central conclusion: Climate change is happening, and humans are causing it. Some researchers said the U.N. panel\u2019s attitude \u2014 appearing to promise that its results were infallible, and reacting slowly to evidence that they were not \u2014 could undermine the rest of its work.\u00a0What\u2019s happened here is that there\u2019s an industry of climate-change denialists who are trying to make it seem as though you can\u2019t trust anything that is between the covers\u201d of the panel\u2019s report, said Jeffrey Kargel, a professor at the University of Arizona who studies glaciers. \u201cIt\u2019s really heartbreaking to see this happen, and to see that the IPCC left themselves open\u201d to being attacked.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
3. Textbooks for Texas public schools<\/b><\/a> are a debatable issue \u2014 big time.<\/div>\n
4. Does the internet hurt?<\/b><\/a> \u201cThere is, in fact, a host of research that directly tackles these issues. To date, studies suggest there is\u00a0no consistent evidence<\/a>\u00a0that the Internet causes mental problems. If anything, the data show that people who use social networking sites actually tend to have better offline social lives, while those who play computer games are\u00a0better than nongamers<\/a>\u00a0at absorbing and reacting to information with no loss of accuracy or increased impulsiveness. In contrast, the accumulation of many years of evidence suggests that heavy television viewing does appear to have a negative effect on our\u00a0health<\/a>\u00a0and our\u00a0ability to concentrate<\/a>. We almost never hear about these sorts of studies anymore because television is old hat, technology scares need to be novel, and evidence that something is safe just doesn\u2019t make the grade in the shock-horror media agenda.\u201d Speaking of which: teenagers text on average 10x\/hour<\/b><\/a>!<\/span><\/div>\n
5. Changes in Iran toward a military dictatorship<\/b><\/a>?<\/div>\n
6. The winter to remember<\/b><\/a> \u2014 random chaos.<\/div>\n
7. Guelzo on Lincoln<\/b><\/a> on justice.<\/div>\n
8. The Vatican weighs in on tops of the pops<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
9. Recently I\u2019ve tired of the many who spend so much time wondering what nonChristians think of the Church and church services and whether or not we are \u201cfriendly\u201d (as defined by survey questions) \u2026 so I found Mark Galli\u2019s piece a breath of fresh, wise air<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\n
10. Anyone seeing this<\/b><\/a> at their local level?<\/div>\n
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Meanderings in Sports<\/div>\n
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