Well, it was a pretty horrible week in the Clendineng household. We have all been struck at one point or another with an intense stomach flu. We also broke the axle on our van; so we were a one car family for a while (a very small, two door car). Happily everyone is recovering and the van is fixed. Otherwise it was a pretty quiet week. Here’s some stuff I came across…

1. The Gift of Validation

2. Ed Young Jr. tells pastors “U.B.U.” (YouTube)

3. A review of “Hear No Evil”

4. The fantastic truth of Calvin and Hobbes

5. Ken Starr named as new Baylor president

6. First screening of Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2”

Have a great weekend!

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Saturday, February, 13, 2010

Weekly Meanderings

Posted at: 3:08 pm

I took my wife out for a date last night. We went to dinner and watched Avatar in 3D. The story was okay, the character development was poor, but the visuals were truly stunning. Anyway, all that to say I’m a little late getting out the meanderings.

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Good doubt vs bad doubt: six indicators

2. The Big Red Tractor: the church and human effort (Vimeo)

3. A retelling of the story of Jesus and the Bleeding Woman

4. Jason Boyett: NOW hated the wrong Super Bowl ad

5. First Things announces the end of Intelligent Design

6. Is church membership good/necessary?

7. Tim Keller on Hell (YouTube)

8. Are we God’s poem (Eph 2:10)?

9. First looks at Brian McLaren’s “A New Kind of Christianity”

10. A review of “The Book of Eli” (spoilers)

11. A review of “Glittering Vices”

12. A review of “This Mortal Flesh: Incarnation and Bioethics”

13. A review of “Women in the World of the Earliest Christians”

14. An interview with the authors of “Game Change”

15. Teaser trailer for the upcoming Japanese animation version of “The Borrowers”

16. You really can be “bored to death”

17. Facebook data shows USA divided into seven regions of connectivity

Have a great weekend!

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Saturday, February, 6, 2010

Weekly Meanderings

Posted at: 6:00 am

So much going on this week. Here’s some stuff I came across…

1. Why the Saints will win (or at least cover the spread)

2. Erwin McManus, Mosaic, and the Super Bowl

3. A contrast in church endorsed Super Bowl commercials

4. Is self-promotion sinful?

5. Donald Miller on J.D. Salinger

6. A review of “A Theology of Love”

7. John Piper on Hell

8. Grace and the Church

9. Faith is turtles, all the way down

10. Francis Chan challenging Christians to actually do something

11. Worship leaders…stop leading in front and start leading beside

12. Real leaders go first

13. Brian McLaren’s quiz: are you a fundamentalist

14. What is theological education for?

15. Surreptitious Supersessionism

16. Dinosaurs and Jesus

17. Mixed Martial Arts as ministry

18. An amazing interview with Rob Bell on preaching

19. Sin, love and the life of a shaken baby

20. What’s your “One Thing?”

21. Christians, sports, and compromise

22. The Facebook diaspora

23. Creative business cards

24. What are the odds a given cow will make it to the Super Bowl?

25. Poetic crush: alliteration

26. First look at the new book “Zombies vs. Unicorns”

Have a great weekend!

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Saturday, January, 30, 2010

Weekly Meanderings

Posted at: 6:00 am

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Does God speak to you?

2. Doubters arise

3. Christian cultures of violence

4. A theology of singlehood

5. NT Wright on Hell

6. What’s changing in the church, and what’s not

7. Six keys to achieving big goals

8. In general, my opinion is that churches should pay taxes

9. Eight common Twitter mistakes

10. A review of “The Bible Among the Myths”

11. A review of “Jesus, Interrupted”

12. Holden Caulfield spoke only to his own generation

13. The Million Miles short film contest

14. Quietude of Quakers and other names for denominational gatherings

Have a great weekend!

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Saturday, January, 23, 2010

Weekly Meanderings

Posted at: 6:00 am

I wanted to make my quarterly statement that I do not necessarily endorse anything linked in the Weekly Meanderings; this is a list of items which I believe add to the Christian conversation.

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Marc Driscoll and James MacDonald in Hait…and some video

2. Come to worship! Even when you’re angry, tired, or spiritually cold

3. Common mistakes church planters make

4. The similarities between graphic designers and pastors

5. Christianity and the abuse of statistics

6. A review of Christianity, marriage, and sexuality

7. “The Day I Decided to Stop Being Gay”

8. The decay of modernity

9. Is Sola Scriptura possible?

10. Leonard Sweet on reading Scripture, apples, and oranges

11. Translating Greek: Sabbaton

12. Are professors more likely to be liberal or liberals more likely to be professors?

13. The importance of religious fiction

14. Another reason why writers are masochists

15. Worst passwords on the internet

16. The Vikings are worth $530.65 to a Minnesotan

17. Fan proposes to Rafael Nadal during Australian Open match

18. Top A’s prospect leaves baseball to enter priesthood

Have a great weekend!

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Saturday, January, 16, 2010

Weekly Meanderings

Posted at: 6:00 am

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Did Haiti make a pact with the devil (an historical analysis)

2. Don Miller’s response to Pat Robertson’s comments on Haiti

3. A first hand account of a mission team in Haiti

4. Human sacrifice on the rise in Uganda

5. Radio’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide

6. We are all pimps (there are 27 million slaves in the world today)

7. Is justice an imperative or an implication of the Gospel?

8. Euthanasia and Christian tradition

9. A review of “Baptism in the Early Church”

10. Are the names of God holy?

11. An obituary for the Emerging Church

12. The two female bloggers I follow cross paths

13. The place of pastoral visitation

14. Ten suggestions for blogging pastors

15. Oldest fragment of Hebrew writing (10 BCE) translated

16. LibriVox: Free theology audio books

17. Celebrities and audiobooks (why has Christopher Walken never played Edgar Allen Poe?!?)

18. The death of the publishing slush pile

19. Reassessing critical thinking

20. A Coke powered cell-phone (you could probably use Pepsi)

21. Is Costa Rica the happiest place on earth?

Have a great weekend!

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Saturday, January, 9, 2010

Weekly Meanderings

Posted at: 6:00 am

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Do we pick our church by how it meets our needs, or by how we meet its needs?

2. Who is responsible to feed the sheep?

3. On the importance of the public reading of scripture

4. On reading the scripture historically and theologically

5. Some thoughts on giving to the church

6. What do you do when your revolution stops being sexy?

7. Thoughts on the Church’s “masculinity” crisis

8. Police arrest Jewish woman praying at Western Wall

9. What do you hide behind?

10. A review of “The Evolution of God”

11. A review of “Southern Comfort” poetry

12. Apple Tablet rumors (I’d switch; but this is probably all unfounded)

13. LED traffic signals experience issues with snow

14. Bono’s Ten for the next Ten

15. The aughts experienced zero-net job creation

16. Ranking of 200 jobs; from Actuary to Roustabout (Jen and I come in at 15 and 17)

Have a great weekend!

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Saturday, January, 2, 2010

Weekly Meanderings

Posted at: 6:00 am

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Happy New Year!

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson and 2010

3. Best books of 2009

4. Best films of 2009

5. Living a good story: an alternative to resolutions

6. If evolution is true does that make us “nothing but mammals”?

7. If evolution is true does that mean “the fall” is fiction?

8. Scripture and universalism

9. The inescapable love of God?

10. Temple Prostitution: a modest proposal (WARNING: This is satire)

11. How religious is your state?

12. Iranian Soccer Federation accidentally sends New Years greeting to Israel

13. Dissertations on “The Big Lebowski”

14. The evolution of Mario

Have a good year!

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Friday, December, 25, 2009

Weekly Meanderings

Posted at: 9:29 pm

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Why is Christmas on December 25? You may be surprised…

2. The Idiot: a Christmas homily

3. The Pope’s Christmas homily

4. Dark Matter, String Theory, and Heaven

5a. An introduction to universalism

5b. The problem with Hell

5c.A theological defense of Hell

6. Apparently Westboro Baptist Church also hates Lady Gaga (who won’t they hate for publicity?)

7. Unemployment and excess capacity

8. The 50 best songs of 2009

9. Best reviewed movies of the decade

10. The Home Alone Twitter Project

Have a great weekend!

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Saturday, December, 19, 2009

Weekly Meanderings

Posted at: 6:00 am

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Why you shouldn’t try to mathematically prove the resurrection

2. Is this story an analogy for how the Church behaves?

3. Can Evangelicals by Universalists: an upcoming discussion

4. When the halo tips

5. The correspondence between John Lennon and Oral Roberts

6. The Beatles: according to future historians

7. Captain EO returning to Disneyland

8. Are Disney Princesses good for little girls

9. Thoughts on The Princess and the Frog

10. Top 10 worst movies of the decade

11. Most watched YouTube videos of 2009

12. Creative bus stop advertisements

13. A list of “Books I regret reading” (I don’t think I regret reading any book)

Have a great weekend!

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Wednesday, December, 16, 2009

Joshua 20 – Mosaic Law fulfilled

Posted at: 6:00 am

“Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, “Designate the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses, 3 that the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood. He shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and state his case in the hearing of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may dwell among them. Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand. He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then the manslayer shall return to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.”‘ So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plain from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh. These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.”

It’s fascinating to see aspects of the Mosaic law finally coming into fulfillment.

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