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		<title>Heavenly Father’s Day on Trinity Sunday</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today doubles as Father’s Day and Trinity Sunday. Why not triple it to make it Heavenly Father’s Day? This post synthesizes the two days to reflect on the Heavenly Father with reflections from The Epistle to the Hebrews. God the Heavenly Father Speaks to Us through His Son The Epistle to the Hebrews in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Easter Triduum: Obey Your Thirst—for God</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post reflects on Jesus’ obedient thirst for God and our eternal wellbeing that led to his passion, crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection. This sequence of events spanning the evening of Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday is known as the Easter Triduum. May the Lord’s passion for God and us quicken us to obey our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Holy Week Is Humble Week: &#8220;Beware of Becoming Caesarified&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jesus’ Approach to Power Holy Week is Humble Week. We learn from Jesus’ approach to power that great leaders guard against tyranny and dignify our common humanity. May each of us follow suit and dye our imaginations in Jesus’ blood rather than Julius Caesar’s purple. Jesus’ Humble Journey On Palm Sunday, Jesus rides in triumph into [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Excavating the Person in a Throwaway Culture</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excavating]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post reflects upon the importance of “excavating” the person in a throwaway culture. What Is Required in “Excavating” a Civilization’s Artifacts? I recently spoke on the subject of “Excavating the Person in a Throwaway Culture” at Bushnell University in Eugene, Oregon. One of the questions I asked is: What is required in “excavating” a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Inauguration Day, MLK, &#038; America&#8217;s Golden Age</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inauguration Day: America’s Golden Age? President Trump claimed today that the “golden age of America begins right now.” No doubt, his supporters were ecstatic and celebrated his statement while other Americans were less enthusiastic, perhaps even greatly troubled. No matter who would have won the election, such claims on Inauguration Day would have received very [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Embracing Emotions&#8217; Full Range: From Grief to Comfort &#038; Joy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post focuses on the importance of embracing the full range of emotions, from misery and grief to comfort and joy. St. Augustine on Mental Pain St. Augustine writes about mental pain associated with the great evils of life such as wars, including those deemed just. He argues, “Let every one, then, who thinks with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>“Shawshank Redemption” &#038; Contagious Hope</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 06:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction This post focuses on the contagious power of hope and how it helps us press forward amid incredible challenges in life. The film Shawshank Redemption and the Book of Revelation highlight hope’s importance amid the threat of hopelessness and despair. Before beginning, it is worth noting that this is the seventh post in a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>“Lars and the Real Girl” &#038; the Real Church: Total Acceptance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 03:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post reflects on the importance of being kind and accepting people whom many find strange, even messed up. Contrary to what we might think, kindness and care for the other are radical notions. They testify to the church’s realistic rather than cynical call to promote total acceptance. Radical Practices: Kindness and Total Acceptance It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jesus and The Matrix: Free Your Mind?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How Can We Free Our Minds? How can we free our minds when there is nothing we can do to liberate ourselves from the matrix of sin, death, and destruction? The realization of this perspective along with the accompanying perception that Jesus alone can free our minds, souls, and bodies is transformational to our well-being. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reordering Time with Resilient Hope in a Disorienting World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Louis Metzger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog post focuses on the porous relation of time and eternity. Such re-enchantment of everyday life helps me overcome an eternal now of melancholy. Rather than reliving traumatic experiences repeatedly, you and I can move forward and grow in resilient hope. Hamlet: Time Out of Joint Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet said that “The time is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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