The Way of a Pilgrim » Meanderings http://www.thewayofapilgrim.com “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:00:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Weekly Meanderings http://www.thewayofapilgrim.com/2010/07/31/weekly-meanderings-115/ http://www.thewayofapilgrim.com/2010/07/31/weekly-meanderings-115/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:00:58 +0000 admin http://www.thewayofapilgrim.com/?p=2682 Here’s some (or, rather, a lot of) stuff I came across this week…

1. Worship: I start as a blank screen
2. When the Secular is Sacred (or, Why you should listen to Mumford and Sons)
3. Carlos Whittaker’s tattoo
4. A review of Andrew Peterson’s album “Counting Stars”
5. Anne Rice announces she is quitting Christianity
6. The most important part of your story: when you’re about to quit
7. Suggestions for books about the Church
8. C.S. Lewis and spiritual formation
9. A recap of the Echo 2010 conference
10. Why are Christians so bad at dying?
11. A typology of Christian approaches to homosexuality
12. Doubt, family, and friends: part 1, and part 2
13. The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: Reason
14. Defining ID
15. Mike Ham refuses to (1) “move on” from the evolution-creation debate; (2) Rachel Held Evans responds
16. Bill Mounce comments on the Committee on Bible Translation
17. Thoughts and questions about Pauline authorship
18. What are a pastor’s post-preaching logistical options?
19. Should gulf coast churches apply for BP payouts?
20. A review of “Omensetter’s Luck”
21. A review of “The Book of Questions”
22. A review of “Missional Small Groups”
23. A review of “Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory”
24. A review of “The Lost World of Genesis One”
25. Time comments on their recent cover showing disfigurement in Afghanistan
26. A tribute to Harper Lee
27. A suggestion for the Chicago Manual of Style: emoticon usage
28. Idea killers
29. Do you ever stop to think?
30. Building stronger, healthier, more effective teams
31. How to be a good neighbor
32. Social Media has (1) bred a new culture of sharing (and (2) a related cartoon)
33. Lessons learned from Randy Elrod’s Twitter suspension
34. Zero percent of Americans would pay for Twitter
35. The problem with aging video game consoles
36. Addictive game of the week

Have a great weekend!

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1. Following Christ at a Porn Convention
2. Prayer everywhere
3. On Children: (1) How many kids should we have? (2) The only child myth
4. Grieving a miscarriage
5. The Spirit of God and Discernment
6. Quaker Wisdom by John Greenleaf Whittier
7. Galileo as secularist hero…and Catholic saint
8. Stuff Christians Like: Secretly Being Liberal
9. How could God create through evolution?
10. Sin, Suffering, the Fall, and Evolution
11. Observations about universalism
12. On breaking up with God
13. Quotes about doubt
14. Quit dumbing down the Gospel
15. The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: (1) an introduction, (2) Tradition
16. Using social media in ministry
17. Church Marketing Lab: creating logos and fliers
18. The Church and the 20th anniversary of the ADA
19. A review of “Mere Churchianity”
20. A review of “The Hole in Our Gospel”
21. A review of “Getting the Reformation Wrong”
22. A review of “The Writing on the Wall”
23. On Words
24. Emily Dickinson in the Bronx
25. What do you do when you break a book
26. Where to find creative content
27. Quirks are not imperfections
28. The algorithm behind the website “I Write Like”
29. Fifty things a man should be able to do (I got 39)
30. Design images from WETA’s Wind in the Willows
31. “Serenity Now” a Seinfeld thriller…

Have a great weekend!

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1. Fifty gifts from our church to the community; no strings attached
2. Powered by angel wings
3. A meditation on evening light
4. What are queries good for?
5. Thoughts on church volunteerism and hierarchy
6. Slavery, Usury, and the evolution of beliefs
7. Why the Church should get out of the business of civil marriages
8. What are the theological costs of a young/old earth?
9. The miracles of creation
10. CS Lewis explains how to study the Middle Ages
11. The best 10 hymns of all time? (I think not)
12. Anna Broadway on doubt and marriage
13. Showing too much grace
14. In praise of Christopher Hitchens
15. On statements of faith
16. What does a preacher look like?
17. A review of “Jesus Died for This?”
18. A review of “Mere Churchianity”
19. A review of “Hipster Christianity”
20. A review of “God is Not One”
21. Jesus on 153 pieces of toast
22. Is there a cultural decline in creativity?
23. What is creativity?
24. A little background on “I Write Like”
25. How to protect your intellectual property online
26. What caffeine actually does to your brain
27. Nine things to know before you turn 30 (that’s Wednesday for me)
28. Who are your trusted advisors?
29. The return of jousting as popular sport
30. Can you solve Einstein’s Intelligence Quiz?
31. Super Mario projected on a wall as a continuous journey

Have a great weekend!

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1. The preciousness of time
2. Letters from a devastated artist
3. Why real conversation requires risk
4. Tattoos and church jobs
5. What do atheists think of Christians?
6. Text suggestions requested for teaching a “Feminist Theologies” course
7. Two (1) responses to Dr. Mohler’s views (2) on Genesis 1
8. Thoughts on Sodom
9. Stuff Christians Like: a worship song Mad Lib
10. The (1) intro to last weeks Flatfoot 56 show…and (2) a part of the show
11. Best of Cornerstone 2010 compilation video
12. Concert sales sag
13. “The Largest Backyard Fireworks Display in the Country”
14. A treasure trove of 4th of July orations
15. Top ten things not to say to sullen 59-year-old men
16. To end? To begin? Or to be in the middle?
17. How to become a better writer
18. How the pursuit of goals operates outside of conscious awareness
19. Short film of the week: Abuela Grillo

Have a great weekend!

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1. None of us are leading Biblical lives
2. Is it unbiblical for moms to work outside the home?
3. Motherhood: a blog fight, a culture war, and grace
4. Where are the female Christian communicators?
5. Broken by the church
6. Feeling judged by the Church
7. Reconciliation personified
8. Having fun in Church
9. Hanna-Barbera theology
10. Stuff Christians Like: the “everyone is on vacation” church service
11. Why Christians are jerks online
12. Be careful what you worship on July 4th
13. Shane Claiborne on Interdependence
14. How to build new habits
15. Ron Rosenbaum on the New Agnostics
16. A review of (1) “Evolving in Monkey Town” and (2) another review
17. The Christian Hipster bookshelf (how many have you read?)
18. Top 10 books of the first half of 2010
19. Study finds people read more slowly on e-readers
20. Top 20 songs of the first half of 2010
21. BeliefNet sold to (1) BN Media and (2) further information
22. Thoughts on penalty kicks

Have a great week!

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1. Writing a personal theology statement
2. The faith of Roger Ebert
3. The faith of the Ghanese football team
4. Religion as baggage, or, why it’s impossible to discuss theology with believers
5. You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do
6. Canceling church to do ministry
7. An interview with Anne Jackson (free download)
8. Various reviews (1) of Ted Haggard’s new church (2)
9. A review of “Evolving in Monkey Town”
10. A review of Christopher Hitchens’ memoir “Hitch-22”
11. A review of “The Lost World of Genesis One”
12. A translated excerpt from “To the End of the Land”
13. Craigslist and human trafficking
14. The end of men?
15. Mommies and swimsuits
16. Art requires discipline
17. The sixth love language…mix-tapes
18. Peter Jackson may direct The Hobbit after all
19. Stuff Christians Like: not using Snopes or Google before forwarding

Have a great weekend!

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1. Thoughts on evangelical mysticism (Dr. Armstrong needs to hang out with more Quakers)
2. Is the Bible your precarious, presumptuous replacement of the Spirit (pneuma) poured out at Pentecost?
3. Anne Jackson on porn addiction
4. Thoughts on VBS
5. Translating Galatians 2:21 – Christ died “for nothing” or “as a free gift”
6. Facebook for churches (part 1 of 5)
7. Thirteen things learned at the BioLogos Conference
8. Adam and Eve: literal or literary
9. Thomas Nelson acquired by a private equity firm
10. A review of “Churched”
11. A review of “Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham”
12. Creeped out by guardian angels
13. How to survive a Christian bookstore: find your happy place
14. Seven suggestions to be an effective mentor
15. Would you be more effective with a “5 Hour Workday”?
16. Contrariwise: literary tattoos
17. It’s not too late to make your summer bucket list
18. Toy Story 3 gets a negative review

Have a great week!

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1. Being the aroma of Christ
2. How to react when you are wronged
3. Ira Glass on wrongness
4. An NPR interview with Ted Haggard
5. A blog post on Ted Haggard to which Ted Haggard actually left a comment
6. Is “the Devil” responsible for our sin?
7. Readings on God and Evil
8. How do we define Biblical words?
9. Does the Bible support the idea of Biblical inerrancy?
10. The Bible for smart-alecks (WARNING: potentially offensive)
11. Senseless Art? The struggle…
12. How bad habits create boring stories
13. Start. Work. Finish…avoiding procrastination
14. The importance of margin
15. A review of “Making Ideas Happen”
16. A review of “I Am Hutterite”
17. Psychoanalyzing fictional characters
18. An interview with singer-songwriter Sarah Tracey
19. Xenophobia at a police auction in Dayton, TN
20. World Cup simulated odds
21. Liquid mountaineering – how to literally walk on water (YouTube)
22. Movie of the week: “Hoppity Goes to Town” (YouTube)

Have a great Weekend!

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1. Join those praying for women and children being trafficked during the World Cup
2. Are humans inherently good or bad?
3. Spencer Burke interviews Brian McLaren on Pluralism
4. Is it bad to be a stumbling block?
5. How does your view of God affect your religious practices?
6. Have you had these “religious experiences”?
7. Shifting clouds: a narrative
8. God is present and immanent and involved
9. A demon puppet leading the sinner’s prayer
10. Preaching and Speech Act Theory
11. How to refine your ideas
12. “Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.”
13. The hidden cost of social networking
14. Why beliefnet sucks…
15. The first in a series of posts reviewing “The Seven Pillars of Creation”
16. A review of “After You Believe”
17. A look at the autobiography and biography of Andre Agassi
18. A summer reading list
19. Librarians cover Lady Gaga
20. What it takes to become a master writer
21. Guillermo Del Toro leaves “The Hobbit”
22. Minnesota students turn observatory into R2-D2

Have a great weekend!

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1. Preachers who are not Believers
2. When having an “only child” is not a choice
3. Mutual submission and Ephesians 5:22
4. The problem of narrating a fall
5. Is free-will anti-science?
6. Lost, Tolkien, and the creation of mythology
7. Lost: the death of American individualism
8. More thoughts on Lost
9. Cultural re-entry
10. How millennial are you? (I scored an 84)
11. Sit-Com idea #678: three men, who each believe they’re Jesus, share an apartment
12. A review of “After You Believe”
13. Summer reading list
14. Mark Twain’s autobiography to be published in November
15. One drawing for every page of Moby Dick
16. Should the 17th Amendment be repealed?
17. Bill Nye explains “Top Kill”
18. Google Pac-Man costs $120mm in lost productivity

Have a great Memorial Day weekend.

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