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