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	<title>Anxious Bench</title>
	
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	<description>The Relevance of Religious History for Today</description>
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		<title>RED EASTER</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2013/05/red-easter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 07:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Jenkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally wrote the following piece for my church’s newsletter. Bear with me if my remarks are obvious. I hope it might be of interest. On May 19, the church celebrates the great feast of Pentecost, with all its rich imagery of fire from heaven, tongues of flame, and speaking in tongues. In the Western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GOSPELS OF ISLAM</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Jenkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apocryphal gospels]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[infancy gospels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protevangelium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qur'an]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/?p=3000</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been tracking the ancient “lost gospels” through the Middle Ages, when these alternative scriptures continued to exercise a remarkably wide influence. This was especially true in the cultures of Islam, which emerged in a largely Christian world fascinated by apocryphal writings. Even in the fifth century, Arabia was proverbially haeresium ferax: the breeding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How does God still speak?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnturner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Religious History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Turner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/?p=3993</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Until recent decades at least, nearly all Americans have believed in an unchanging God, &#8220;the same yesterday, today and forever.&#8221; If God does not change, does God&#8217;s manner and rate of revelation change over time? Typically, those who have wrestled with the issue of canon in the history of American religion have made only crude [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bourbon Fudge and Trappist Caskets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Swartz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[death with dignity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/?p=3982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past semester for me focused inordinately on death. I taught a course called “War in the American Memory” and covered the Holocaust in World Civilizations. And then—even though commencement was already over—fellow blogger Miles Mullin piled on with a terrific post on how modern Americans outsource death and dying. It’s the semester that won’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin Franklin, George Whitefield, and the Founding of the University of Pennsylvania</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 04:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Kidd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Whitefield]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people are not aware of the vital friendship between Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield. Franklin became Whitefield&#8217;s key publicist and printer in the colonies in the early 1740s, and their relationship lasted until Whitefield&#8217;s death in 1770. They also exchanged friendly letters on many topics. One of the most fascinating exchanges between them came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protestant Reformation Approaching 500</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 05:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Albert Howard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tal Howard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/?p=3973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 31, 2017, the Protestant Reformation will turn 500.  How ought one commemorate such an epochal, complex, and influential historical development?  While the date is still a while off, I have been thinking about the question a lot lately.  In part, because my colleague Mark Noll at Notre Dame and I received a grant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome New Anxious Bench Blogger David Swartz!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 04:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Kidd</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/?p=3905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This coming week we are welcoming another new blogger to the Anxious Bench roster, David Swartz of Asbury University. From David&#8217;s website : David R. Swartz is an assistant professor of history at Asbury University. He earned his Ph.D. in American history at the University of Notre Dame under the direction of George Marsden and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FINDING THE DIATESSARON</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2013/05/finding-the-diatessaron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 08:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Jenkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boniface]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diatessaron]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/?p=2986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My current research involves the history of alternative gospels and scriptures, and how these supposedly “lost” works in fact survived and exercised their influence many centuries after they supposedly disappeared. One classic example of a “lost” text is the Diatessaron, a valuable harmony or synthesis of the four canonical gospels composed around 170. Because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evil, Evil, Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2013/05/evil-evil-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 05:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnturner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[evil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gosnell]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/?p=3963</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Evil has seemed everywhere over the past several weeks. The Boston bombings. Gruesome murders of babies who survived failed abortions. The kidnappings, forced rapes, and forced miscarriages of the women in Cleveland. Sometimes I&#8217;ve found that my students &#8212; often steeped in relativism &#8212; have to be prodded to consider &#8220;evil.&#8221; The word has religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsourcing Death and Dying in America</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2013/05/outsourcing-death-and-dying-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miles Mullin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Laderman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huckleberry Finn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resurrection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Moll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand By Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen King]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/?p=3941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once an intimate family affair, death and dying are now outsourced in America. Set in different centuries, stories from two of America’s greatest storytellers highlight the manner in which American encounters with death and dying have changed over the last two hundred years. Culled from Stephen King’s novella The Body (1982), the plot in the [...]]]></description>
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