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		<title>Excuse Me, Your Exclusion is Showing</title>
		<link>http://spiritualdiscourse.com/2010/08/excuse-me-your-exclusion-is-showing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Blogger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This entry is a repost from the author&#8217;s blog, reposted here by permission. In college, I took a sociology class called &#8220;Who is an American?&#8221;  Yes, that was the name of the class.  I remember hating the class, especially when the professor would call on me as he noticed I was drifting off to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song lyrics: These Times by the Normals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a whole lot of discussion to be done about these lyrics.  I just really like this song, I think it&#8217;s a beautiful overview of what it means to be really loved unconditionally.  I haven&#8217;t heard this song in a long time, but iPod shuffle mode brought it to my attention again. These Times Artist: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J. C. Ryle Online!</title>
		<link>http://spiritualdiscourse.com/2010/03/j-c-ryle-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was very excited to discover that J. C. Ryle&#8217;s expositions of the gospels are available online. These were some of the first &#8220;commentaries&#8221; (not at all technical) that I read as a growing Christian. As a teenager, I was impressed with Ryle&#8217;s application of the Bible to my life, and consequently was incredibly shocked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glorying without Worshipping</title>
		<link>http://spiritualdiscourse.com/2010/03/glorying-without-worshipping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I just recently sat down to watch Julie and Julia, and I must say that I was surprisingly entertained.  Meryl Streep truly gives a masterful performance of Julia Child.  The movie captures the lives of two women looking for something to give their lives meaning, and they find it in the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate the Season of Giving by Receiving</title>
		<link>http://spiritualdiscourse.com/2009/12/celebrate-the-season-of-giving-by-receiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I propose that we do something a little different this Christmas.  Let’s focus on receiving well.  A first glance this may seem backward from our traditional Christmas-time giving campaigns and perfect-present shopping trips.  And perhaps it is.  However, it seems to me the whole thing started by a bunch of people receiving a gift—a baby, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller</title>
		<link>http://spiritualdiscourse.com/2009/12/review-blue-like-jazz-by-donald-miller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a sea of Christian theological books, it&#8217;s hard to take seriously one that is as simple as Don Miller&#8217;s Blue Like Jazz. Without a single footnote or Biblical cross-reference, Miller manages to simmer the core principles of Christianity into a 250-page memoir that bounces around from short essay to shorter essay, meandering through MIller&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity: The New &#8220;Racism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://spiritualdiscourse.com/2009/12/obesity-the-new-racism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America eats too much.  We all know that.  I don&#8217;t think anyone is surprised when we see staggering food consumption statistics comparing the U.S. to other countries.  Yet, ironically we are a nation who loves food and hates fat people.  With the recent political surge addressing healthcare reform, I have heard congressional representatives talk about overweight people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8220;Christmas-friendly&#8221; the Message We Want to Proclaim?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spiritualdiscourse.com/?p=237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Christian ministry Focus on the Family has provided concerned consumers with an interesting service this holiday season.  On their website standforchristmas.com, researchers have &#8220;evaluated the advertising of major retailers and assigned ratings based on their level of &#8216;Christmas-friendliness,&#8217;&#8221; (www.standforchristmas.com).  Also, the website functions as a forum where spiritually sagacious shoppers can rate their experiences on the &#8220;Christmas-friendly&#8221; scale. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Roundup</title>
		<link>http://spiritualdiscourse.com/2009/11/science-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our focus on faith and science, professor and scholar John Collins has recently reviewed John Walton&#8216;s highly touted new book The Lost World of Genesis 1: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate.  Collins holds post-grad degrees from MIT in engineering and the University of Liverpool in Archaeology and Oriental Studies.  Consequently, his eight page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology: Obeying God in the Sciences</title>
		<link>http://spiritualdiscourse.com/2009/11/technology-obeying-god-in-the-sciences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following Jeff’s post, it has become evident to all that we need more math and science in our schools.  Two days ago in South Korea President Obama made a statement regarding new education initiatives, “Specific programs include a two-year initiative on &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; to teach kids about math and science, an after-school program focusing on [...]]]></description>
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