Bunches of lots of good reads this week from our blog pals at The Daily Scribe:

• A controversial new bible translation cuts out the needlessly controversial parts of the gospels—like giving all your money to the poor. If Christians don’t use it, it ain’t there no more. (Subversive Influence)
• Yet Another UU asks, “What if you want to re-imagine worship services but hate electric praise bands?”
• Kesher Talk tells us that an Israeli-American Nobel winner doubts Israel’s long-term survival.
• A new website wants you to help them freshen up the list of the Seven Wonders of the World. (Danya Ruttenberg)
• 187,000 Wal-Mart workers just won $78 million in court for back wages and mandatory overtime, including 33 million skipped rest breaks. (jspot)
• Nathan Colquhoun asks us, “What’s more important, truth or people?”
• In His Courts is starting to find the “emergent church movement” in other religions.
• Crookedshore is tired of spiritual gifts inventories: “We talk about Paul’s imagery of everyone one of us being part of a body, hands, eyes, legs etc., when what we really mean is that everyone of us is a cog in the machine. We thus interpret the scripture in such a way as to serve the current operation, rather than allowing the scripture to critique our set-up.”

Finally, I used Google Notebook for the first time to collect posts for this week’s Jamboree. I estimate less than 10% of my brain remains to be outsourced to our wise and benevolent Google masters.