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	<title>Hope Abbey</title>
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		<title>Depression and Pessimistic Anthropology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up somewhere in between fundamentalist and Evangelical Chrisitanity, I was taught that depression was a sin. Depression was the end result of self-focus. Someone who claimed to hate himself was really in love with himself. Someone who wanted to &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=815">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Every man is not a theologian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things they teach you at the Baptist seminary I am attending is that every man must be a theologian. This wording is taken from John H. Gerstner, who really believed that every person must be a &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=805">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Like Hillel, Not Like Shammai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like Rabbi Shammai. I know, I know, he&#8217;s supposed to be a &#8220;bad guy.&#8221; Beit Shammai is supposed to epitomize the kind of xenophobic, ritualistic Pharisaism that Jesus condemned; this is part of Harvey Falk&#8217;s thesis in his book &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=802">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love Liturgy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love liturgy. It probably sounds strange to those who know me, as I&#8217;m the contemporary praise band leader at Union Church. In fact, aside from very classic hymns, I don&#8217;t play very many songs that are more than about &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=800">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Past Jewish and Gentile Identity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like every discussion on every Messianic blog, every &#8220;innovative&#8221; (I use the term somewhat pejoratively) theology in the Messianic movement, every controversy that I come into contact with currently boils down to the idea of Jewish and Gentile identity. &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=795">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find Reliable (Academic) Sources of Information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first entered the world of religious higher education, I had no idea where to find reliable sources for the papers I was writing. The study tools most commonly used by laymen&#8211;study Bibles, concordances, etc.&#8211;were not enough; my professors &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=792">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Disputes Which Messianic Judaism Can Solve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of Christians have kind of a &#8220;so what&#8221; attitude toward the Hebrew Roots movement and Messianic Judaism. This movement is perceived at times as superficial, unnecessary, etc. Many times Messianic Jews are pressured into conforming to standard Christian &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=784">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A graduate-level paper on Hebrews and Supersessionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With apologies to my readers, I offer some of what I have been working on that has been taking so much of my time from blogging. I recently submitted the following paper to my university for a 600-level class on &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=781">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Easily Disprovable Hebrew Roots Myths #1: Why James, not Jacob?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more interesting HR myths I have seen crop up again and again is the intimation that modern English bibles transliterate the Greek Iakobos (Jacob) as James because King James, who directed the completion of the 1611 King &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=779">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Failure Complex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Messianic world suffers, at times, from what I call a &#8220;failure complex,&#8221; &#8220;complex&#8221; meaning &#8220;a group of mental factors that are unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject and influence the individual&#8217;s attitude and behavior&#8221; (thanks, Wikipedia). &#8230; <a href="http://www.hopeabbey.com/?p=771">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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