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		<title>Methodist Breakthrough in Bristol&#8211;Part One</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Field preaching]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Without question, Bristol was a crucial city for the Methodist movement. And really it started in 1739 when George Whitefield introduced John Wesley to ‘field preaching’, in this case at Hanham Mount, which Whitefield had preached at before. The crowd that gathered consisted of colliers (coal miners) the poor and the uneducated, with an estimated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Roman Bath(s)&#8211; Part Three</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[All things Roma in Britannia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The more one studies this site, the more one realize it was mainly a religious site, and only secondarily a bath, with the bath serving not just cleansing purposes but medicinal ones.  Here is a drawing of what the full site would have looked like… Not just one or two temples, but a whole temple [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Roman Bath(s)&#8211;Part 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 05:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[My god...I need a bath!]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Museum under and around the Roman Bath is excellent and well worth a visit. We will consider some artifacts in this and the next post.  In fact the Bath was connected to a Temple of Minerva, so there was a religious connection to this bath.  Here  is  a drawing  of  what  the  bath  would  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Roman Bath(s)&#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2026/10/23/roman-baths-part-one/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Romans in hot water]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Certainly the main tourist attraction in Bath is the ancient Roman bath complex.  In Roman times the city was called Aquae Sulis. It is possible that Constantine, later to be both Emperor and a Christian of sorts was here in the late third century A.D..  Here are some shots of the Roman Bath complex from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bath Abbey</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2026/10/22/bath-abbey/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shouldn't stained glass be called colored glass?]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bath is a town that goes all the way back to Roman times, and had a very different name then, as we shall see, but today it is named after the hot spring Roman bath which is in the center of town and draws tourists and locals alike, to see what Roman leisure culture was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beautiful Bath</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A city worth spending time in]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bath is a beautiful city in many ways, not the least of which is the quaint downtown narrow street with interesting shops, like the Shambles in York. And of course there are numerous pubs (i.e. Public Houses) and restaurants.  One of the most common and popular names for a pub is The Red Lion (for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Westminster Abbey&#8211; Part Three</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2026/10/21/westminster-abbey-part-three/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA['Lift up your eyes...']]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are many more novelists, poets, playwrights and actors in poet’s corner these days, and here are just some of them… An Abbey should be a place where you look up to God, not look down to see what famous humans have died, but in this Abbey, you have to do both. So when you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Westminister Abbey&#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[another to be changed by it.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It is one thing to be moved by something]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One can get either depressed or impressed by walking around on the top of the names and dates of famous writers, musicians, politicians whom you have admired but whom now are all dead. I will give pride of place to a person who has most influenced me….. I love the quote on it: “I believe [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Westminster Abbey&#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2026/10/18/westminster-abbey-part-one/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[What did Edward Confess?]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In one sense walking into Westminster Abbey is like walking down the Hollywood walk of fame, although these folks are far more important than movie stars in Hollywood.   Not only are Kings like Edward buried here, but so are famous writers, poets, politicians, or at least there memory is preserved in a floor plaque, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Methodist Central Hall and Westminster Abbey</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Situated on the same square is Methodist Central Hall and Westminster Abbey.  Here are a few picture of the former, and of our Methodist pilgrims who came to see all this, men and women from all over the south, mostly from the Global Methodist Church including Bishop Carolyn Moore of that church. Whereas Central Hall [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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