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		<title>Is the Resurrection essential to Christian belief?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Shelby Spong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pascha]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just 42 percent of Americans identify the resurrection of Jesus as the point of Easter, according to a 2010 Barna survey, and only 2 percent “describe Easter as the most important holiday of their faith.” I find this astounding. The Resurrection is the faith. A Christian faith not centered on the Resurrection is not fully [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Irenaeus on the purpose of Christ&#8217;s passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2014 05:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Easter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irenaeus of Lyons]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we reflect today on the events of Great and Holy Friday, observe Christ’s descent into Hades, and look forward to his paschal triumph, here’s a passage adapted from Irenaeus’ Against Heresies worth considering: The Lord suffered that he might bring those who have wandered from the Father back to knowledge and to his fellowship. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How internet porn explains the decline of American faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pornography]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since the early 1990s, there has been a significant uptick in Americans abandoning their faith. After crunching the numbers, one researcher says contributing factors such as upbringing and education only explain part of the increase. What about the rest? After controlling for variables like income, environment, and so on, computer scientist Allen Downey of Olin [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>That curious time when every pope wore a beard</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel J. Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bessarion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierio Valeriano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Clement VII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[popes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Owing to both papal and canonical disapproval, beards have been underrepresented in the Latin church. Whereas Orthodox hierarchs have long been barbate and bushy, Latin clerics have typically preferred naked cheeks and smooth chins. The Catholic Encyclopedia offers some background for this bias, but it’s fun to consider a period when this prejudice was sorely [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;Without embittering and embarrassing others&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel J. Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 01:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecumenism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embittering and embarrasing others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[François Fénelon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philaret of Moscow]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[After the World Vision dustup last week and personal and professional confrontations, it’s good for me to return to a prayer I try to offer as often as I recall it. “Teach me to act firmly and wisely,” it goes, “without embittering and embarrassing others.” That can be a tall order, especially these days when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does the adulterous woman belong in your Bible?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel J. Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecclesiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John 7.53-8.11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripture]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The story of the adulterous woman, found in the Gospel of John, is a tricky text. The current scholarly consensus is that the account found in John 7.53-8.11 is not original to John, and modern translations often bracket the story and flag it as dubious. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of the NKVJ, NIV, ESV, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Revenge and the simplistic morality of Hollywood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel J. Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hollywood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Silverado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Grit]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I watched Silverado with my son, Fionn. It’s one of the greatest westerns ever made. But something bothers me about the flick, something that recurs in many movies. In short, revenge as a moral good. Movies tend to turn on rather simplistic morality, which is understandable since the whole drama must be condensed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christianity: Use only as directed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel J. Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nominal Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Douthat]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Graham Greene’s novel The Third Man, people suffer and die because of diluted penicillin purchased on the black market in postwar Vienna. American Christianity is suffering a similar fate, though our diluted faith is practiced in the open for all to see. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat raised the issue by pointing to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What&#8217;s missing in our conversation about marriage decline</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2014/03/whats-missing-in-the-conversation-about-the-decline-of-marriage/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel J. Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conscious uncoupling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In all the conversations around the decline of marriage I wonder if we are paying enough attention to the old-fashioned concept of sacraments. Christians have traditionally understood marriage as more than mere contract, more than mutual agreement, more than partnership. The church understands marriage to be a sacrament. That is to say, though not exclusively, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>One resource every pastor, scholar, and student needs</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2014/03/one-resource-every-pastor-scholar-student-needs/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel J. Miller]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 02:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ancient Christian Texts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[InterVarsity Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samson]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve had about a week to thumb through InterVarsity Press’s magisterial Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity, though I’ve only digested a fraction of its 3,000-plus pages. With the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and Ancient Christian Texts, IVP has become an important source for patristic studies in English. The arrival of the EAC only cements that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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