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		<title>Kindness Stones&#8211; Q and A</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Telling stories]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[1) How long did it take to write these stories?  Did they all sort of spill out of you in a short period of time or have they been marinating for a while in your imagination?      Short answer—most stories were written in a single day—but of course there’s more to it than that. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kindness Stones&#8211; Mark Allan Powell</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  (Cascade, 250 pp.) Some Biblical scholars not only have writing skills in the form of helpful scholarly books about the Bible for pastors, teachers, and educated laity, as well as the occasional scholarly monograph, but even have some skill in writing interesting fiction– whether short stories, novellas, or novels.  Mark Allan Powell, in this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Early Christian Theology. A History&#8211; by J. Warren Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  J. Warren Smith, Early Christian Theology. A History, (Eerdmans,2026) pp. 556ff.   In an age of over-specialization, there are very few scholars today who could have written an instant classic like this book.  But Warren Smith has not only done it, but done it in great detail, with all the detailed references and footnotes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rethinking the Garden of Eden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[No temple in Eden]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  First things first— the Hebrew word גן means garden, and refers to a safe enclosure. Add the word עדן to it, and the overtone is of a pleasurable place, a garden of earthly delights—the garden of Eden.  Now nothing at all in these words, nor in the story we are reflecting on in Gen. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lazarus Come Forth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[an heir raising story]]></category>
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		<title>Do You Want to Be Healed?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Some people prefer attention and comfort to healing]]></category>
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		<title>Rethinking John 7.39</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Das Heilige Spuk?]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the major points I made in my volume Biblical Theology. The Convergence of the Canon (CUP, 2020), is that one must allow the OT to be the OT, which means not reading everything from the NT back into the OT.  Among the things this includes is not reading the references to ‘the spirit [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>One of My All Time Favorite Videos&#8212;Become like a Child</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children Say!!! Next Level]]></category>
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		<title>An Atheist Mom Discovers Context Matters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Understanding the Bible]]></category>
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		<title>Unseen Realm Q+A</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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