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		<title>Home of the Brave&#8211; Toto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Today this should be anthem]]></category>
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		<title>Stratford, Shakespeare&#8211;Part Two</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[All's well that ends well.]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[William Shakespeare was not borne into wealth, but he married a woman Anne Hathaway, whose family had money, and a nice thatched-roof house on the edge of town, which they called a cottage in a quaint part of Stratford. Will on the other hand, was born in town, and baptized in Holy Trinity Church, where [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stratford, Shakespeare, the Cotswolds&#8211;Part One</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Follow the yellow brick house]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We had gorgeous Fall weather the whole time we were in England, and no better time than to take a ride through the lovely Cotswolds and finish the day in Stratford on Avon.  We stopped at two places in the Cotswolds, namely Broadway, and Stow on the Wold.  Here are some shots from that green [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Money Machine&#8212; James Taylor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil]]></category>
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		<title>Charles Wesley&#8211; the Neglected Wesley</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[O For a Thousand tongues to sing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the early stages of the revival, Charles Wesley was especially crucial including his mission in Bristol, where he eventually settled, and in Newcastle upon Tyne, which became, after London and Bristol, the third major center of early Methodism.  Charles should not just be known as the great lyric writer that he was, for he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Wesleys in Oxford&#8211;Part Two</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[me wantem cookie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oh Ernie]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There were some disappointments in Oxford– we didn’t get to go into the Bodleian Library— one of the oldest and greatest libraries in the U.K. nor in the Radcliffe Camera, nor in C.S. Lewis’ college Magdalen (pronounced Maudlin), nor in the Eagle and Child pub where the Inkling, (Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and others) met and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Wesleys in Oxford&#8211; Part One</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colleges are one thing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Universities another]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Both John and Charles were students at Oxford University in the 1720, and then dons with John becoming a member of Lincoln College. But before that they both attended services at Christ Church Cathedral, and classes there as well at Christ Church College.  Both John and Charles were ordained in Christ Church Cathedral. It was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>John Wesley on Social Holiness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesus was right--- he came to provide release to the captives]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was John Wesley’s great virtue that he believe spiritual and social holiness belonged together. Indeed he emphasised that there can be no spiritual holiness without social holiness, by which he meant,  caring for the least, the last and the lost, the orphan, the widow, visiting those in prison, providing food and shelter to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Things Go Better with Coke&#8211; Thomas Coke (and Capt. Webb)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A good Methodist must be prepared to preach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[or die on the spot.]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[    These two men were not alone of course, and there were a series of less familiar names that Wesley encouraged to go to America and evangelize, for instance consider this letter from Wesley…   Or consider this action taken at a Conference meeting… Wesley never took the title bishop for himself, but used [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Methodist Breakthrough in Bristol&#8211; Part Three</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Weary thyself in well doing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is so much information stored in the New Room in Bristol that one can spend days there.  But here’s some of the more pertinent and interesting bits. A drawing of John Wesley at his mother’s grave in London… This was a hard decision for Wesley not only because he was a member of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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