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		<title>Monday Miscellany, 5/18/26</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[lawsuit against cannabis industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Netflix "Chronicles of Narnia"]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[New federal regulation could devastate religious colleges &#038; seminaries.  A lawsuit against Big Weed for touting cannabis as medicine.  And Narnia movie update.]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Religion Can Be Growing and Declining at the Same Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural turmoil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decline of religion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is religion making a comeback, or is it still in a state of decline?  Different studies are coming to different conclusions.  Why that is.  And why both religious decline and religious revival can happen at the same time.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ascension Day and the Sacraments</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christ]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sacraments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ascension Day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christ's presence in Holy Communion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Reformed say that the Ascension makes it impossible for Christ's body to be present in Lord's Supper.  Lutherans say that the Ascension is what makes it possible.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Social Imaginary of Our Secular Age</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secularism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social imaginary]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/?p=91262</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[A discussion of Charles Taylor's analysis of secularism and the social imaginary that shapes both believers and non-believers today, with special attention to the "imminent frame" and the "buffered self." ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Worldview vs. Social Imaginary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Christians have long used the concept of "worldview" as a way to understand both the implications of the Christian faith and the presuppositions of its alternatives. Today we also have a related but somewhat different concept:  the social imaginary.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Monday Miscellany, 5/11/26</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Palisades fire]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Iran War is less popular than the Vietnam War.  Updates for Virginia and Finland.  And the cause of the Palisade Fires in California.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Impact of St. Augustine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christianity and the inner life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[St. Augustine and Modern Philosophy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[St. Augustine  is one of the few theologians who is appreciated by nearly every theological tradition.  Even many modern philosophers respect him. John Mac Ghlionn credits him for making the inner life central to Christianity.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Priesthood of All Believers &#038; Vocation</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2026/05/the-priesthood-of-all-believers-vocation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reformation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctrine of vocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laity]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are many misconceptions about the doctrine of the Priesthood of All Believers.  It isn't that everybody gets to be a pastor, or that we don't need pastors.  It's that you don't need to be a pastor to be a priest.  ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Owen Barfield on Resurrecting Language &#038; the World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inklings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K. R. Queen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[myth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/?p=90704</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[A key member of the Inklings profoundly shaped both Lewis's faith and Tolkien's fantasies:  the philosopher, poet, critic, and lawyer Owen Barfield, "one of the most neglected important thinkers of the 20th Century." A summary of his thought, with the help of K. R. Queen's video. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Problem of Skepticism</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2026/05/the-problem-of-skepticism/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gene Veith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[conversion narratives]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[[Free post] Excerpts from Christopher Beha's "Why I Am Not an Atheist" on the limits of skepticism and the necessity of faith. And how his memoir accords with the apologetics of J. G. Hamann.]]></description>
		
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