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		<title>Winthrop (and Christianity) v. Rand (and the Worship of the Self)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In contrast to Ayn Rand’s refusal to recognize even relatives as having any claim upon her, as I mentioned earlier today, John Winthrop in his “A Modell of Christian Charity,” preached onboard a ship to the new world in 1630. Christians are governed by the “double law” of nature and of grace, or the moral [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ayn Rand&#8217;s Onion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I cannot like you or want to help you without reason,” Ayn Rand wrote her niece, who had asked to borrow money for a graduation dress. Rand sets out the conditions on which she will loan her niece the money and explains that she is testing her and trying to teach her something about life. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Corporatist &#038; the Nihilist Extremes (aka Republicans v. Democrats)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mills]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“They are not besotted with the Pope as the Vicar of Christ. They are interested in him and his every little word because he has power, and power is what they are all about,” writes Rebecca Hamilton in her latest weblog item, “Pope Francis is Writing an Encyclical on the Environment, and Both Sides of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>She Doesn&#8217;t Have to Be a Macho Girl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mills]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The movie was, if anything, an advertisement for virginity. The Smokers, an indy production I saw years ago and recently saw sitting on the shelf of a videostore, told the story of three young women at a boarding school and what happened when they tried to be like the boys. The movie was wiser than that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Still Trying For That Girl, No?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mills]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A friend writes on Facebook with a similar story that those I told in my last column for Aleteia: Nurse: “Three boys, huh? So I suppose you guys will want to keep trying for that girl, no?” Me: “Yeah, totally. We are SUPER disappointed in this beautiful boy. And we are only really into this parenting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Speak Well, Says St. Francis de Sales</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mills]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[St. Francis de Sales is the patron of writers and journalists, and said a great many wise things writers and journalists should hear. These are a few passages from his classic work, Introduction to the Devout Life, relevant for the craft and calling of writing. In them he warns rather than instructs and doesn’t really speak directly to what writers and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rod Dreher Ashamed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mills]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 03:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Speak of others as you would have them speak of you is the rule for speech, I think, as I wrote in last week’s column for Aleteia, When Men Speak of All That Is Evil Against You. Anyone with any verbal gifts can easily hurt people badly, and even those without any verbal gifts can hurt [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>You Do Not Want Most Worship Music to Repeat</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davidmills/2014/12/1626/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mills]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This has lessons for liturgy, good and bad: an Italian researcher working with the University of Southern California reports that Repetitive pop songs [are] ‘more likely to be hits’. The study found that for each additional repeat, a song’s likelihood of making it to number one increased by 14.5 per cent. . . . More repetitive songs rose more [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When People Try to Beat You Up With Words</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mills]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many people don’t like other people living outside the middle class mainstream and insist on telling you so. It’s trying when it’s not just annoying. I give examples in today’s column for Aleteia, When Men Speak of All That Is Evil Against You . . . and ask what this experience should teach Christians about the way [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spurgeon&#8217;s Insights</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Mills]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Something I stumbled upon while looking for something: the great nineteenth-century Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s comments on proverbs, The Salt-Cellars. They vary in quality, of course, and his teetotalling comes out in a few, but many of them are witty, insightful, provocative, etc. Here are some from the “M” section in volume two: Many can [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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