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	<title>Echoes of the Cross</title>
	
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	<description>Hearing the echoes of the gospel in everyday life</description>
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		<title>Dear Hallmark, Can We Please Have Our Sunday Back?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/05/dear-hallmark-can-we-please-have-our-sunday-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 15:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, it is confession time… I don’t love Mother’s day.]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Wild Things Are: Longing for More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the world lost the prolific children’s writer, Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are. For many, the sight of this book and it&#8217;s iconic images, first published in 1963, conjures up childhood memories. You may remember the lap, or lack thereof, that you were sitting on when you first experienced Mischievous Max run his mouth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Beautiful Love Story</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/03/a-beautiful-love-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, a good part of America tuned in to see how the latest love story would unfold on the Bachelor. Today, I watched a real-life love story in a hospital in Tennessee. I watched an unassuming man gently pat his wife’s leg as he described with the utmost care what she might need while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mom to the End</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/02/a-mom-to-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/?p=188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You absolutely must read Jill&#8217;s recent article about her mother&#8217;s death to cancer (today is the 14 year anniversary of her death). Our family found solidarity in our mission to fight the beast that was waging a war in our midst. The surprising intensity of sorrow made it difficult to just be; we had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should a Christian Read Fairy Tales? (Part 4)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/should-a-christian-read-fairy-tales-part-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/should-a-christian-read-fairy-tales-part-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Christian Should Become and Active Reader and Movie Watcher (This is Part 4 of a series, you can find Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 in earlier posts.) The Christian is a resident alien. His/her citizenship is in heaven (Col 3:1, Eph 2:19).  But, they have been sent into the world to engage the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Christian and Movies: We are the Real Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/the-christian-and-movies-we-are-the-real-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Cusey is a movie critic who writes for World Magazine, the Washington Post, and The Daily Caller (among others).  She has a post titled &#8220;Christians and Movies: Recognizing the Danger Within, Not Without,&#8221; on her blog Tinsel. She writes: When I’m at church or other Christian gatherings, however, I get two specific and unique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is No Ideal Spouse for You</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/149/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first decade out of seminary, I was a campus minister with Reformed University Fellowship.  College students are a vibrant group, but you could always count on the Christian students believing a subtle lie &#8211; that God has the ideal spouse for me, and that if I find them, my life will be largely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should a Christian Read Fairy Tales? (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/should-a-christian-read-fairy-tales-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/should-a-christian-read-fairy-tales-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Identity in Christ Must Drive Our Answer to This Question (This is Part 3 of the series, you can find Part 1 and Part 2 in my previous posts) In my previous posts, I argued that the Christian is to be in the world – not of the world – but, for the world. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should a Christian Read Fairy Tales? (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/should-a-christian-read-fairy-tales-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/should-a-christian-read-fairy-tales-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christian Should Be Reading and Watching the Stories of the World. (This is Part 2 in a series.  You can read Part 1 in this previous post). Should a Christian read literature that contains elements that the bible outlaws, e.g. sorcery, witchcraft, coveting, anger, jealousy, or self-righteousness?  This isn’t an easy question to answer.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should a Christian Read Fairy-tales? (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/should-a-christian-read-fairy-tales-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/echoesofthecross/2012/01/should-a-christian-read-fairy-tales-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Joiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Importance of Story: Why Read Literature, Watch Movies, Listen to Music, or See Plays As a pastor in the South, I frequently get asked whether it is morally permissible for a Christian to read the Harry Potter series.  The reasoning is that because they make something the Bible considers evil (magic) look good, a [...]]]></description>
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