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		<title>Westminster Abbey&#8211; Part Three</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>The British Museum&#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[What do cats and beetles have in common?]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was strolling through the top floor of the brand new Parthenon museum in Athens  which is indeed climate controlled, and state of the art, and there was a display of some of the friezes from the  side of the top of Parthenon, and some of the triangular frieze on  the front…. when I noticed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The British Museum&#8211; Part One</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don't drink the Hemlock!]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I remember the British Museum of old well— no air conditioning, a notable smell of must or age, and way too many exhibits to take in even in a month of Sundays.  The current upgrade is good since there is now air conditioning, and some new rooms for the old stuff.  There are also more [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The British Library&#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[but the Christ who is being painted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illuminated manuscripts are beautiful]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[much more so.]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Gutenberg Bible was probably the first book ever printed with movable type, in Mainz around 1455.  This invention was in part what jump started the Protestant Reformation because all of a sudden all kinds of mss. could be printed quickly including Bibles, and thus even the Bible was no longer under the control of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The British Library&#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2026/10/13/the-british-library-part-one/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[And the Word was good]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The British Library is the younger offspring of the British Museum. It first opened in 1973, but it finally got it’s own proper sized quality building in 1998, opened by Queen Elizabeth II in person. The purpose was to unify collections in various places.  We had time to visit the Treasury room,  which has a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wesley&#8217;s Chapel and the Foundry Part Three</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2026/10/12/wesleys-chapel-and-the-foundry-part-three/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Methodist Church emerges]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are some beautiful stained glass windows in Wesley’s chapel which were added after Wesley’s time as well as some famous paintings about Wesley.     These three paintings/drawings are of the rescue of John Wesley as a child from the burning parsonage, the famous Wesley tree under which he preached to a crowd,  and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wesley&#8217;s Chapel and the Foundry Part Two</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Witherington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[000 on horseback.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and could even summon sleep while riding as his horse knew where to go.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I'll praise my Maker while I have breath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wesley travelled 250]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a painting done while John Wesley was alive, in his later years.  If your wondering, all of the tour group signed the poster above on the request of its owner one of our pilgrims, and conveniently it also has the signature of John Wesley himself.  She plans to have its framed.   Here below [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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