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		<title>On the Castile Verdict and Violence Against Muslims</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Rocha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had just reason to fear for someone's safety? I am sure many of you have. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>BOOK RELEASE: Tell Them Something Beautiful by Sam Rocha</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2017 03:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am thrilled to announce the release of my book of essays, Tell Them Something Beautiful. I would recommend purchasing it from my publisher, Wipf and Stock, but it is also available on Amazon and other outlets. For those in the Vancouver area, St. Mark’s College will be hosting two book launch events, where I will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Some Daiquiri Music: &#8220;A Todo VAR&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  I am giving a talk and showing some photography on Wednesday (see the poster above) at UBC and, inspired a bit by Alphonso Lingis, I decided to record a soundtrack for it. You can hear it by clicking the image. Here it is: “A Todo VAR.” I played drums, bass, and guitars, and all [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>By Their Fruits: A Reply to Rod Dreher</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Rocha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2017 02:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Rod Dreher’s spirited reply to my critical review of his book, The Benedict Option, has run its course. In my first reply, I defended Dreher against certain charges that struck me as being unfair. I continue to stand by them, but in this reply I’d like to move from defence to offence. I won’t pretend to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Notes In Defense of Rod Dreher</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Rocha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2017 04:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  My review of Rod Dreher’s book, The Benedict Option, has been replied to by the author. I will compose write a reply to it tonight, but before I do, I think it is important for me to mention some reasons why I think Dreher should be defended from some of his critics online right [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Benedict Option: A Critical Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Rocha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2017 12:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Rod Dreher positions himself in The Benedict Option in a way that makes this review require a bit of personal introduction. We both seem to agree that testimony is important. I grew during the 80s and 90s in a lay Catholic missionary family that spent a decade as affiliate members and on-site missionaries with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media Treats Trump Better Than Clinton or Bush</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Rocha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I’ve said countless times, my media intake began with 90s era Rush Limbaugh and to this day includes a real dose of right-wing stuff. In many ways, hyper-conservative media, from The EIB Network to Focus on the Family, created my basic worldview and, in my case, I don’t see myself as having moved very [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On the US Dept of Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Rocha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2017 23:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Around the time of the Devos nomination, a lot of people were sharing the Wikipedia-informed idea that the Dept of Education was invented in 1979 and that if we just blow it up then we will lose the federal schooling apparatus. Sorry to burst your bubble, folks, but that story is sophomoric in the sense [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ON PROTEST (AND THOSE WHO PROTEST AGAINST THEM)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Rocha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 23:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am continually amazed at the conveniently short memory of the vast number of the “political scientists” that post their analysis on social media. The fact is there always have been protests on inauguration day. The scale and degree, of course, varies, but the plain and simple reality is that protest, even destructive protest, is as American [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Remember Your Promises: A Note to My Spiritual Elders</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Rocha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You raised me. You taught me. You took my family and gave them a direction. You fed us and sometimes clothed us. You loved me. You promised. The keywords: Orthodoxy, conservative with a small c that started to grow during the Clinton years, fidelity, authority. You swore an oath, and I did too. I still [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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