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		<title>Thoughts from the Easter Vigil</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did your church celebrate the Easter Vigil?  It's still relatively new to me, but I consider it now my favorite service of the church year.  Let me tell you why.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Thief Who, Like Us, Was Crucified with Christ</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over Holy Week, I came across two reflections on the thieves who were crucified with Jesus.  One on the repentant thief and the other on the nonrepentant thief.  This still being the Easter season, they are both worth contemplating.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Book on Education in Luther&#8217;s Wittenberg</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FREE POST: Right by St. Mary's Church, "the Mother Church of the Reformation," is the school house where the educational renaissance that accompanied the Reformation was put into practice. CPH has published a history of the school. I wrote a preface on its classical approach to education.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Progressive Christianity Tries for a Comeback</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Despite the collapse of liberal churches, there seems to be an effort to bring back progressive Christianity. Democrats are running candidates like James Telarico of Texas, who embodies the new postmodern liberal theology.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Monday Miscellany, 4/6/26</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court overturns conversion therapy bans]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The war and its financial consequences.  Supreme Court rules states can't ban conversion therapy.  And cloning headless "bodyoids" for their parts &#038; to cheat death.]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;He is not here, for he has risen, as he said.&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A FREE POST: This photo is reportedly from inside Christ's tomb, showing the actual place where Jesus' body was laid. Yes, it's overlayed with decorations, but the site is actually well-attested.  The point is, Jesus's resurrection really happened as an objective, historical fact!]]></description>
		
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		<title>His Bleeding Love</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2026/04/my-song-is-love-unknown-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/?p=90196</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[A notable Lenten hymn is "Not All the Blood of Beasts" by Isaac Watts, a meditation on the crucifixion of Jesus and His atoning blood.  What I wrote about it for the Lutheran Service Book Companion.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Communion for the Perfect or for Sinners?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is Holy Communion "a prize for the perfect" or "a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak"?  A Roman Catholic controversy brings out a major difference between Catholic and Lutheran sacramental theology.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Meditations of Valerius</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I've been reading Valerius Herberger's "The Mysteries of Christ in the Book of Exodus," which has been one of the most personally rewarding Lenten projects I've undertaken. Here are some of the things I've gotten from these meditations.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Valerius, One of the Greatest Devotional Writers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across the devotional commentary on Exodus by Valerius Herberger.  I found it to be one of the most stimulating, inspiring, and edifying devotionals I have ever read!]]></description>
		
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