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		<title>Why America Made Halloween Its Unofficial National Holiday</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thoughts about Halloween We are approaching the date of our new American national holiday: October 31, Halloween. Of course, it’s not really a “national holiday” in any formal or legal sense; schools, banks and government offices don’t close on October 31. By “new national holiday” I mean that, in recent years, what used to be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Abolition of Man: Chapter 3: The Abolition of Man</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here I continue discussion of C. S. Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man with Chapter 3 (The Abolition of Man). If you have read the chapter, feel free to comment. If not, feel free to ask a question. In about a week I will take up the Appendix: Illustrations of the Tao. In this chapter [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>She Survived Her Execution. Should the State Try Again?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Capital Punishment Is Barbaric For any of you who have not heard the news, very recently, in the United States (Tennessee, to be specific), a woman was executed by lethal injection. O, wait, the state tried to execute her. It failed. They injected her with two lethal doses of the deadly concoction and she survived [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Abolition of Man Part 2: Chapter 2: The Way</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here I pick up and continue our discussion of C. S. Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man with Chapter 2: The Way. If you have read the chapter you may comment. If not, you may ask a question. I will continue with Chapter 3 in about a week. Here, in Chapter 2, Lewis argues that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ambiguity without Ambivalence in Faith</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can There Be Ambiguity without Ambivalence in Christian Existence? This is a question I’ve been wrestling with for many years without quite being able to express it in this way (see the title above). Put another way, is it possible, as an authentic Christian, to place a question mark over all formal, doctrinal beliefs while [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Abolition of Man Part 1: Men Without Chests</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here I begin a discussion of C. S. Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man and take up Chapter 1: Men Without Chests. If you have read the chapter, you are invited to participate, to comment. If not, you are invited only to ask questions. In a week I will take up Chapter 2: The Way. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Modest Proposal for a Just Social Order</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Note: Don’t forget the upcoming discussion of C. S. Lewis’s masterpiece The Abolition of Man beginning October 1 (2026) What a subject! And such a task! The enormity of it is overwhelming, so all I intend to do here is give a bare bones, that is skeletal, outline of what I regard as the ideal [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is America Becoming an Illiberal Democracy?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is America an Illiberal Democracy? Many political scientists now wonder whether the US is an illiberal democracy (September, 2026). What Is an Illiberal Democracy? An illiberal democracy is one where elections are held but elected leaders act like dictators, more or less. Two leading examples often cited in recent geopolitics are Vladimir Putin of Russia [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Announcing a New Book Discussion: The Abolition of Man</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Beginning on or around October 1 (2026) I will begin a new book discussion. This will be of The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis. We will begin with Chapter 1: Men Without Chests. I bought the book for Kindle for $1 on Amazon. It is available in many formats and at many different [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Charlie Kirk vs. John Piper: Who Is Right?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger E. Olson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk 9 am Plenary Wed 20 October 2010 Photo: Micah Chiang   I saw it on Youtube—a young man confronting conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk with the words of preacher-theologian John Piper. Piper wrote (paraphrasing here) that a Christian should not support a national leader who is deeply flawed in his or her character. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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