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Weekly Meanderings

posted by Scot McKnight | 12:08am Saturday September 19, 2009
Let’s give it up for the fishers!
(We’re on the East Coast this weekend.)

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A new blog that deserves a wide readership.
An old blog that deserves a wide readership.
A blog I always check.
A blog that keeps us in touch with publications … more publishers could do this.
A blog about real life church work.
A blog ... well, what do you say about Karen? It might say just anything and often in moving ways.
A blog I never miss: Jim Martin’s post now about 2 Corinthians.
JCalv.jpgVery true (mark this).
Very true (about most of us).
Very good idea.
Very good observations.
Very good commitment.
I agree (with iMonk).
I agree (with Erika).
I agree (mostly with Eugene).
Online church?
1. Women in ministry …. on the rise.
2. David Brooks: 

“Today, immodesty is as ubiquitous as advertising, and for the same reasons. To scoop up just a few examples of self-indulgent expression from the past few days, there is Joe Wilson using the House floor as his own private “Crossfire”; there is Kanye West grabbing the microphone from Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards to give us his opinion that the wrong person won; there is Michael Jordan’s egomaniacal and self-indulgent Hall of Fame speech. Baseball and football games are now so routinely interrupted by self-celebration, you don’t even notice it anymore.
This isn’t the death of civilization. It’s just the culture in which we live. And from this vantage point, a display of mass modesty, like the kind represented on the V-J Day “Command Performance,” comes as something of a refreshing shock, a glimpse into another world. It’s funny how the nation’s mood was at its most humble when its actual achievements were at their most extraordinary.


3. Obama’s health care reform and the young adults who voted for him.

4. See this one?
 
Wilson.jpg5. Dana Milbank: “There’s no question that Democrats were justified in rebuking Wilson for his disgraceful outburst, which was a clear violation of House rules, not to mention all standards of civility. But that doesn’t mean it was a good idea to rebuke Wilson. Last week, Democrats were on the high ground: Even Republicans were scolding the lawmaker, while the majority party talked about health care. But in bringing a House resolution to punish Wilson, Democrats wound up making him a hero and turning the matter into a party-line brawl.”
6. Unhindered belligerence indeed.
7. Fred Kaplan: it’s about legitimacy and our troops won’t bring it, but he suggests bribery may. 
8. Gerard Bradley: “A genuine Catholic education is more like an orchid: Both its beauty and people’s appreciation of it must be assiduously cultivated. So when the supply of Catholic education plummeted in the late 1960s, so did demand. Many suppliers went out of business. That further decreased demand, so more suppliers quit. Four decades of this, and production of genuine Catholic education is a now a fringe, boutique enterprise.”
9. Free High Holidays.
10. Bidenisms … 
Sports
Maybe the best athlete of the last century… 
And, unlike so many today, he respects the game and his fans.

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Eugene

posted September 19, 2009 at 12:58 am


You only mostly agree with me?
You lie!



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Rick

posted September 19, 2009 at 9:23 am


I’m sorry, but to say Tiger may be the best athlete in the last century is to assume:
1) golf is an athletic sport
2) that he is even the best athlete today (better than Bolt, Phelps, Federer, most of the NFL, NBA, NHL, Olympic track stars, Olympic swimmers, tennis stars, etc…?)
3) that he is better than the great athletes of the past (Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Jesse Owens, etc…?).
Mentally, he is one of the best; but overall athlete- not even near the best of today, let alone over the past century.
On the Brooks quote, so true.
On Milbanks, somewhat true. The Democrats did overplay their hand a bit, and is one reason President Obama seemed to want the issue to go away; but many Republicans were (at the very least) uncomfortable with the outburst, thus are resisting making him into some kind of hero.



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Hutch

posted September 19, 2009 at 1:12 pm


Scot,
Re: Tiger. I’ll agree with you that he is an amazing athlete. But a man who gives respect? To the game? To his fans? Not with his on-course attitude. He may be incredible in terms of the game itself. But he lacks a large amount of self-control and let’s his anger fly. He is a poor example for any who aspire to be like him.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=reilly_rick&id=4347419
There are other articles for which I could leave links, but I don’t want my comment to get lost in the SPAM machine.



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David Johnson

posted September 20, 2009 at 1:44 am


I would argue for Federer.



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Mich

posted September 21, 2009 at 4:45 pm


Interesting——best athlete of the past century period, in no particular order;
Jim Brown–greatest lacrosse and football player in history
Bob Mathias–2 time Olympic Decathalon champ
Jim Thorpe–nuff said
Jack Nicklaus–still more majors than Tiger and certainly has great respect for his peers past and present and the game
Tiger is a great golfer but Id hardly call him the greatest athlete.



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