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		<title>Good Friday&#8217;s cry — “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” — Is Why I Keep Returning.</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[  I became a Christian through osmosis; early in life, I was given the language: sin, debt, fear, wrath, hell, grace, love, repentance, atonement, heaven; this was the lexicon of belief. I left Christianity when the world grew larger than my Saskatchewan village, and I overheard, then began to pick up, another language. I returned...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lines No One Chooses to Write</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Heavy fog this morning, chaining down the night, and the garbage trucks are out collecting, and I’m inside without a light on. Dear friend, what’s it like to be given an expiration date? That’s what I’m wondering about — while outside in the dark,the hydraulic clang and roar of diesel digests a street of...]]></description>
		
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		<title>You Are My Beloved</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[  High on a mountain, after much prayer, weighed down with sleep, the disciples hallucinate. Or perhaps dream a dream, or see a vision, or experience the thinnest place on earth, where the invisible meets the visible, and the ethereal weaves itself into the corporeal and everything looks the way it actually is — somatic,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jesus Raised &#8211; An open letter to Lee Brice and his song, &#8220;Country Nowadays,&#8221; performed at TPUSA’s &#8220;All-American&#8221; Halftime Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Country Nowadays — Lyrics: I just want to catch my fish, drive my truck, drink my beer / And not wake up to all this stuff I don’t want to hear / Like the same kind of gun I hunt with / Just killed another man / Only thing mine ever shot was /...]]></description>
		
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