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Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. Savior of the Nations, Come
2. Why is Christmas on December 25?
3. A thoughtful Merry Christmas from Bill Maher
4. Survey: Jesus is one of the reasons for the season
5. How different churches are celebrating Christmas
6. Mary’s Grammar: how can she sing that the Lord has done great things for her?
7. On Mary: faith and doubt
8. What is the “stay-at-home daughters” movement
9. The growth of an idea
10. Adam, Eve, and the anatomy of modern humans
11. Can a Christian teach biology?
12. A review of “A New Kind of Big
13. A review of “True Grit
14. The economics of baseball
15. The cognitive-visual strategies of top athletes
16. Will the census impact the 2012 presidential race?
17. Does WikiLeaks change everything?
18. Gifts are valued at less than their cost
19. Why the other checkout line always moves faster than yours

Have a great Christmas!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. A Franciscan benediction
2. Stay at home humility
3. Parents affect a child’s understanding of God
4. The Bible and polygamy
5. Economic game theory and the Bible
6. Why did the early church use Logos for Christ?
7. Can a Christian accept evolutionary theory uncritically?
8. Am I an evangelical Christian?
9. The day I found out Martin Luther hated Jews
10. Are politics driving a generation away from the church?
11. Is patriotism idolatrous?
12. Art isn’t supposed to be safe
13. A review of “Man and Woman, One in Christ
14. A review of “Jesus Died for This?
15. A review of “The Next Christians
16. A review of “Conviction
17. A review of “Evolving in Monkey Town
18. A review of “The Book of Genesis Illustrated
19. A review of “Roman Numerals
20. A review of “The Humbling
21. A review of “When I’m With You
22. A review of “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
23. What you complain about is what you’re gifted at
24. Three common mistakes new leaders make
25. The 10 psychological stages of public speaking
26. Fifteen surefire ways to impress others
27. An analysis of the firing of Juan Williams


Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. The ethics of surrogacy, disability, and abortion
2. Is yoga demonic
3. Can yoga be “Christianized”?
4. Multi-faith dialogue
5. What would you do?
6. The cage of Christianity
7. Is this the end of “Big Tent” Evangelicalism
8. Philip Yancey on doubt
9. Matthew 3:11 – “with” or “in” the Spirit
10. Wrestling with beauty
11. The producer or the artist
12. What keeps you from creating?
13. Tolkien’s Christianity
14. Tolkien and the theology of story
15. A review of “No Country for Old Men
16. A review of “Fiddler’s Green
17. A review of “Imaginary Jesus
18. A review of “The Church of Facebook
19. A review of The Weepies
20. A review of “Never Let Me Go
21. A review of “The Age of Adz
22. A review of “Sons of Hamas
23. A look at Novel laureate Liu Xiaobo
24. How do you relate to your desk?
25. How to guide a team through conflict
26. Our relationship with carrots and sticks
27. A flowchart of female character types
28. Schematic of the relationships in “Pride and Prejudice”

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. A review of “Permission to Speak Freely
2. When doubt comes to church
3. Is doubt a trend?
4. Is doubt a bigger trend than you think?
5. Redeeming Sexual Brokenness
6. When a pastor has an affair
7. John Piper discusses his sabbatical
8. A new and improved Christianity?
9. BioLogos on adopting a faith statement
10. Rise of the Neo-Anabaptists
11. Is evangelicalism shifting?
12. Catalyst 2010
Temptations in the dip
Soul and skills 1
Soul and skills 2
Spectacle and restoration
13. Why parenting may be your highest calling
14. Raising boys who read
15. How to be alone (YouTube)
16. The labyrinth app (iPause)
17. St. Benedict and the complainy pregnant lady
18. Is there a “normal” sentence order in Biblical Greek?
19. A review of “An Emerging Dictionary for the Gospel and Culture
20. A review of “O Me of Little Faith
21. A review of “Stuff Christians Like
22. A review of “Surprised by Grace
23. A review of “Bearing the Mystery
24. A review of “Counterfeit Gods
25. A review of “Walking Gently on the Earth
26. A review of “The Pregnant Widow
27. A review of “The Charlatan’s Boy
28. Poverty is a perception
29. Brassieres and defecation
30. Why most artists, authors, pastors and celebrities don’t get Twitter
31. Is technology a friend or a foe?
32. Is your leadership style killing your organization?
33. What baked evil looks like
34. Bacon pancakes
35. The weirdest church drama ever

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. “Permission to Speak Freely” tour coming to Fairfield, IA…an update…and a review
2. Our “don’t ask, don’t tell” church
3. The real experience of a virtual community
4. Waiting rooms and worship
5. Snake handler’s disclaimer
6. Christian disagreement over hell
7. Faith, the devil, and a storm
8. Why can’t you just have more faith?
9. When atheists and Baptists agree…and Al Mohler responds
10. What is justice?
11. Are you a manager or a leader?
12. The art of balance
13. The effort to save the “Blue Like Jazz” movie
14. A review of “God and Football
15. A review of “The Little Book of Hours
16. A review of “Gracenomics
17. An excerpt from “The Charlatan’s Boy: a novel
18. A review of “The Social Network
19. A review of “Wall Street 2
20. Rahm Emanuel gets a dead Asian Carp from his staff
21. Thoughts on banned book week
22. Developing the craft and art of writing
23. Iran’s interrupted lives
24. An allegedly real exchange in a British court
25. Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon rap a history of hip-hop

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. A review of “Man and Woman, Once in Christ
2. What does headship mean?
3. I’m ___, but I want to be ___
4. How God loves me: (1) a story (2) in two parts
5. What to do after you believe
6. Church as a drug
7. Apologetics in a postmodern world
8. Why I stopped going to church: (1) part 1, (2) part 2, (3) part 2.5
9. Theotokos of the sign
10. Taking a stand
11. Calvin College (1) dis-invites The New Pornographers and (2) one individual’s follow-up
12. The danger of placing too much emphasis on one word in a sermon
13. Ending age-oriented worship
14. Should Christians practice yoga?
15. A review of “Monk Habits for Everyday People
16. A review of “Sun Stand Still
17. A review of “I’m Still Here
18. Stephen Colbert testifies before Congress in character (brilliant)
19. Ten ways to celebrate banned book week
20. Ten ways to annoy a literary agent
21. Normal people aren’t artists
22. Getting un-stuck
23. The upside of profanity
24. The 3 hardest things for a human to do
25. How to live a better story
26. What will they say about you when you are dead?
27. Fifty stadiums to see before you die
28. Jurassic Park: the musical

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. The meaning of the Koran
2. How to love your Islamic neighbor
3. What constitutes an accurate Biblical translation
4. What do you mean by Biblical literalism?
5. Was Adam a real person?
6. Views of the Cross and Asian American mission
7. Jesus isn’t contained in our boxes
8. Jesus + Nothing = Everything
9. Picketing with a positive message
10. IHOP sues IHOP
11. Church signs: bane or blessing?
12. The evangelical church: by her stripes we are killed
13. When is a failed leader ready to come back?
14. Redefining success
15. We can’t run on empty
16. Telling our secrets, telling our stories
17. This is art
18. Is the artist’s pursuit a selfish one?
19. Ten ways to stay creatively fresh
20. A review of “Lisbon” a new album from The Walkmen
21. A review of “Sun Stand Still
22. Ernest Hemingway’s top 5 tips for writing well
23. Why “Blue Like Jazz” will not be a movie
24. Sacha Baron Cohen signed to star in Freddie Mercury biopic
25. The Prisoner’s Dilemma on reality TV
26. Why TED is awesome
27. A real life example of evolution
28. How Apple sets their pricing (and why I don’t buy Apple)
29. The verdict on “Cash for Clunkers”
30. Stuff people like: trends from data harvested at OkCupid

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. When God says, “It’s Okay”
2. Working through God’s provision
3. God of the sky
4. Creatives are inherently on the fringes
5. Creating multi-sensory experiences
6. Would Jesus burn the Qur’an
7. The problem with literalism
8. The problem with John 3:16
9. Thoughts on the new CEB Bible translation
10. A good story starts as a bad story
11. Good theology / Bad theology
12. Notes from The Nines
13. Skye Jethani speaking for The Nines
14. Big Tent Christianity roundup
15. Sex trafficking in Michigan
16. Great opportunity for women leaders
17. Gender inequity and the missing females (Youtube)
18. A review of “Brave Girl Eating
19. Why should Christians read fiction and poetry
20. Why are books the size they are?
21. The writing life is not all it’s cracked up to be
22. How to make a better “About You” page
23. (1) How to be happy at work and (2) the economics of happiness
24. The current job crisis
25. A rational rant against pennies…and nickels (Youtube)
26. Is counseling only for crazy people?
27. Does drinking affect college grades?
28. Deep fried beer at the Texas State Fair
29. Top 10 magazine covers of the last decade
30. Neon Jesus

“Danny and Annie” from StoryCorps

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Great night at the Fairfield Art Walk last night. Anyway, here’s some stuff I came across this week..

1. Do you have a dream?
2. Tips to help 30 year olds grow up
3. How Christians have damaged a healthy perspective on sex
4. American teens are becoming “fake” Christians
5. The threat of pagan Christianity
6. The dangerous pursuit of “cool” in Christianity
7. Parenting with doubt
8. An atheist working through death and grief
9. Why I believe in God today
10. A look at God, food, and affection
11. To the Church in North America: build a bigger banquet table
12. The advantage of princes
13. Women Preachers: a story often neglected
14. Burqa watching in Great America
15. Does the slippery slope always go to the left?
16. Was Adam a real person?
17. The problem with literalism
18. What is a “good theologian”?
19. Does Christianity require an immortal soul?
20. Simple answers to difficult questions
21. Francis Chan interviewed (interrogated?) by Mark Driscoll and Joshua Harris
22. Top 10 books from the first half of 2010
23. Suggested reading list
24. How to write an online book review
25. A review of “Fatherless Generation
26. A review of “Your Church is Too Small
27. A review of “Permission to Speak Freely
28. A review of “Discovering the God imagination” in two parts
29. A review of “For the Beauty of the Church
30. Amazing interactive video from Arcade Fire (Must Use Chrome to view)
31. Download a free Radiohead concert from 2009
32. Images of bullets slicing through water droplets
33. How panhandlers spend a prepaid gift card
34. Why it could be good to give up watching football
35. Naming your fantasy football team

Have a great holiday weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. What did Jesus know?
2. What role does Jesus play in our lives
3. Top 5 people to convince me God exists
4. Why am I a Quaker?
5. Thoughts on simplicity
6. Working your way through doubt
7. Don’t let discouragement pile up
8. An encounter with mental illness
9. Plant your spiritual pivot foot
10. How to reboot your spirit
11. Why the Bible is a tough read for Americans
12. How Erasmus messed up the KJV
13. Elders: for men only?
14. Loving our Muslim neighbors unconditionally
15. Rachel Held Evans on Christianity and evolution
16. A preview of The Nines
17. A review of “The Resurrection of Jesus
18. A review of “Jesus Manifesto
19. New Sufjan Stevens EP release “All Delighted People EP
20. Scott Adams writes about the Artist’s Secret
21. The Sacred Groves
22. Ten questions for personal creativity and fulfillment
23. Writer’s block: what to do when the well runs dry
24. Forty days can change your life
25. Why 20-somethings don’t care about Prop 8
26. Facebook displeased with portrayal in “The Social Network”
27. Q&A from a “Football Outsider”
28. States call on Craigslist to discontinue adult services ads
29. Apparently, cities are hurricane magnets
30. A classical singer analyzes five male metal singers
31. Metal masterpieces rendered as 8-bit audio
32. A hymn for atheists (YouTube)

Video of the week: I’m Not Afraid (remix)

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. The parable of the good Muslim
2. A mother’s dilemma regarding hell
3. Doubt and the rituals of grief
4. On theology and friendship
5. The probability of God
6. Heresy and the Godhead
7. A pastor really ought to believe in God
8. Clergy and burnout
9. Blogging as Theological Discourse
10. Twitter lessons from Rick Warren
11. What if I am wrong?
12. Gay exorcism
13. Should Christians celebrate the overturning of Prop 8?
14. The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: Scripture
15. Is there an historical Adam?
16. Reasons to love artists
17. What art says about life
18. Fourteen reasons your creativity may be suffering
19. Is contemplative prayer a legitimate Christian practice
20. A review of “The Celtic Way of Prayer
21. A review of “A God-Sized Vision
22. Reviews of “Hipster Christianity” by (1) Vicky Beeching and (2) Julie Clawson
23. A review of “Not That Kind of Girl
24. A review of “Socialnomics
25. Beloit College Mindset List for the class of 2014
26. Why college professors should get tattoos
27. How to deliver the perfect 18 minute Ted Talk
28. What to do when you hate your job
29. The relationship between household labor time and sexual activity in married couples

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. The importance of being alone
2. The importance of dirty feet
3. The importance of understanding your weakness
4. Lord, teach us to worship
5. How has God called you to worship?
6. Ramadan and Vikings safety Husain Abdullah
7. Scot McKnight interviews Brian McLaren
8. My life as a “whitewashed feminist”
9. Do slippery slopes exist?
10. Why is being a pastor so unhealthy?
11. Death by ministry?
12. Starting a competition between churches
13. Christopher Hitchens and death
14. A poem: The Song of Wandering Aengus
15. Loving Leviticus
16. Syllabus for Patron Saints for Postmoderns course
17. Syllabus for Medieval Christian Thought course
18. A review of “Razing Hell
19. A review of “Evolving in Monkey Town
20. A critique of Rachel Held-Evans‘ Washington Post piece
21. A review of “Walking Gently on the Earth
22. A review of “The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics
23. The paradox of watching Quentin Tarantino
24. How to cut your to-do list in half
25. Craigslist accused of promoting prostitution…again
26. Should the retirement age increase with an increase in life expectancy?


Picture of the week (found with no attribution) House on a rock


Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

1. When does your day start?
2. The faith of Ray Bradbury
3. Show me how to die
4. I’d rather be hated than loved with conditions
5. Celtic spirituality: what’s real and what’s usable
6. The genesis of doubt
7. The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: Experience
8. Fundamentalism since the 1970s
9. Religion in college
10. When sex offenders go to church
11. Are there slippery slopes?
12. ‘Negotiated infidelity’ is stupid
13. What marriage doesn’t do
14. Would a hero say what you just said?
15. You are the sun
16. A review of Arcade Fire’s new album “The Suburbs
17. A review of “Olive Kitteridge
18. A review of “The Power of a Whisper
19. Making a living at writing
20. Good ideas deserve time
21. Favorite summer beach reads
22. Campbell’s Soup responds to Andy Warhol
23. Gamers find protein structures
24. How to treat a client
25. Cartoon of the week

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Meanderings

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!

Weekly Meanderings

The meanderings are a little late this weekend as I spent all last week at the Cornerstone music festival. See if you can find me in this photo  from the Flatfoot 56 show (the theme at the show was “Shark Week”). I’ll be posting on the festival sometime; until then, here’s some stuff I came across this week…

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!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

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!

Weekly Meanderings

I’m a little late in posting; I was in the local community theater production of “My Fair Lady” and our performances were this weekend. Anyway, here’s some stuff I came across last week…

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!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

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!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

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!

Weekly Meanderings

Here’s some stuff I came across this week…

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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