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	<description>The Relevance of Religious History for Today</description>
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		<title>Something Still Could: Courage for a Turbid Anniversary</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2026/06/declaration-independence-250-radical-hope/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wyatt Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American History]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“We hold these truths to be sacred &#38; undeniable; that all men are created equal &#38; independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent &#38; inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, &#38; liberty, &#38; the pursuit of happiness…” ~Jefferson’s Original Draft of the Declaration “All honor to Jefferson — to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>History as Christian Discipleship</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discipleship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Race and Religion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a history educator for over thirty years, the reasons for studying history are never far from my consciousness. When I taught in high school, I knew that virtually every day I went into the classroom I needed to be able to articulate why my students needed what I was teaching. Earning a PhD in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Calvin in Corinth: Complementarian, Confused, or Contextual?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Randolph]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calvinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[complementarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacob Randolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Calvin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you ever read something about history that stopped you in your tracks? That shook up your assumptions about the past? It happens to me all the time. I still remember reading the epilogue of Ward Holder’s Calvin and the Christian Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2022) on a plane ride a few years back, when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finding the First Book Ever Written on a Hidden Gospel</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2026/06/finding-the-first-book-ever-written-on-a-hidden-gospel/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Jenkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Philip Jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward B Nicholson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gospel of the Hebrews]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am continuing my series on Lost and Found Scriptures. I believe I have a scholarly find in this area, a first, and I am putting it out here to see if anyone can help me confirm this. For several decades now, the topic of alternative and non-canonical gospels has been a very lively field [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On Different Educations and the Global Church</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2026/06/on-different-educations-and-the-global-church/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynneth Renberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynneth Miller Renberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perspectives]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As my grant (and time in Norway) wrapped up this spring, I spent a lot of time being bad at communication in public. Let me explain. I had two conferences (one in Paris, one in Oslo) where I was able to go present my work. These were really rewarding experiences, and I learned a lot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Does Persecution Make Faith Stronger?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa Clark Diller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 13:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[anti-Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Clark Diller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious violence]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This month I’ve been visiting secret places. I study English Catholic families in the seventeenth century who were trying to pass their faith on to their children in the face of persecution. My husband and I traveled to the North of England to track down the stories, secret communities, and ways of living that these [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Empires Made It Possible To Find Lost Scriptures</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2026/05/how-empire-made-possible-the-rediscovery-of-lost-scriptures/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Jenkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 04:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lost scriptures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ottoman Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[papyri]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My present work concerns the massive discoveries of early Christian texts, documents, and scriptures in the years between roughly 1870 and 1930 – that is, a generation or two before the famous finds at Nag Hammadi and Qumran in the 1940s. I have blogged a lot about this in the past, but I don’t think [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Lost Scriptures Hide in Plain Sight</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2026/05/how-lost-scriptures-hide-in-plain-sight/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Jenkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 04:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Acts of John]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apology of Aristides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barlaam and Ioasaph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hymn of the Pearl]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been posting on texts and scriptures as they are lost and found, with an emphasis on gospels and sacred writings. Today, I want to complicate the story by asking how “lost” some texts ever get to be, when they might actually be hiding right in front of us, in plain sight. What made [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Did Business Go Bad?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2026/05/when-business-went-bad/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Mayfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medieval christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are living in a New Gilded Age. Or, so said Paul Krugman in 2014 as he reviewed economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In the dozen years since, nothing seems to suggest the name is less applicable. The gap between the top 1% and the 99% is almost unfathomable. From superyachts, superstar [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What does Homer have to do with Christ?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2026/05/what-does-homer-have-to-do-with-christ/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Renberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 06:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ancient History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hermeneutics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exegesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iliad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odyssey]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Homer is having a bit of a moment. The controversy around Christopher Nolan’s creative decisions in his forthcoming Odyssey, the recent discovery of an Egyptian mummy buried with some lines from the Iliad, and of course, posts from my esteemed Anxious Bench co-contributors Philip Jenkins, have shown that the ancient poet remains relevant to our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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