Sorry for the morning’s delay on posting Weekly Meanderings. I forgot to set the time.

I am hoping Chicago gets the Olympics.
Reilly is right- Michael Jordan seems to not just win, but to crush people (gain the whole world but lose your soul?).
He could learn some things from David Robinson. I encourage people to see Robinson’s classy speech, including his reference to the Gospel of Luke and God’s hand in his life, on YouTube.

In fact, here is that Robinson speech. It is only 7 minutes long:
http://www.dennyburk.com/?p=5322
HT: Denny Burk

It’s great that Eric Cantor’s tone is getting more civil. But it’s hard to talk to the GOP about health care at this point, given that they refuse to say what it they’re actually in favor of.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/09/the_republican_pretext.html

Dennis Bratcher (the Neo-fundamentalism in the Nazarenes guy) seems to have a rather broad view of what a fundamentalist is.

ugh. that Tullian thing at coral ridge isn’t just sad, it’s kinda disgusting.
when people want to tank pastors over not wearing a robe it makes me want to shake somebody.
very, very hard to be kind and patient over pettiness that is so immature, disrespectful and disruptive that you’d whip up a church vote over things like that.
God forgive Kennedy’s daughter.

Amen to the rabbi reaching out to help Muslims! More of us need to step out of our comfort zones and from behind our prejudices and insecurities.
On your comment from Bonhoeffer, what if we began to look at saints as forgiven sinners? I think that’s the biblical view versus our human view that they’re people who were somehow flawless.

The review of Deep Church makes a number of excellent points. I hope that we can get to some these in the discussion of the book – and perhaps Jim will engage in conversation.

I’m sad for the Coral Ridge thing. I find myself wondering what went wrong but probably even those who are there find it confusing. These things can be traumatic for the those in the flock who might feel like they should be taking sides but have a hard time knowing what side to take. These sorts of events can leave scars. I hope Tchividjian finds a way to minister to his flock with a special grace that aids in healing.

Scot,
I certainly hope you’ll rethink the olympics as I hope Obama will rethink it too. It will displace so many people by doing whatever they can to create retail and shopping in the area, kicking people out of homes… and then effectively raising the value of lower income apartments, making them no longer affordable for their residents.
My best friend does social work and community organizing in Chicago – he said the vote among his colleagues is largely one-sided…
NO! To the Olympics, for the sake of the poor, NO.

Scot-
Do you have a favorite Joseph Epstein collection? (What should I read first?)