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	<title>Jesus Creed</title>
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	<description>Scot McKnight on Jesus and orthodox faith in the 21st century</description>
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		<title>Doubting Thomas or Honest Tom?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/27/doubting-thomas-or-honest-tom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 10:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This reflection is by Seán Mullan, from Irish Bible Institute, and he reflects with us today on Thomas, the famous doubting Thomas. Only two of the twelve apostles have names and reputations strong enough to be a part of modern parlance. “You Judas,” is a title reserved for betrayers. And the dubious sceptic is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pentecost Prayer for the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/27/pentecost-prayer-for-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/27/pentecost-prayer-for-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 05:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Prayer and Formation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelicalism Meets Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/26/evangelicalism-meets-gratitude/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/26/evangelicalism-meets-gratitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 16:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Challies thought it was his duty to defend the truth and that meant taking down Ann Voskamp. He ends up calling into question the Bible&#8217;s mysticism, the church&#8217;s mystics, and those in his own circle. Challies went too far this time. Ann Voskamp, in grace and gratitude, offers a brief reminder that Challies&#8217; heroes [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Three Pigs and the Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/26/three-pigs-and-the-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/26/three-pigs-and-the-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 11:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Syler Thomas. One March afternoon, when I was in the process of figuring out what to write about in my new book Game Plan: Practical Wisdom for the College Experience (co-written by Nic Gibson), I got a call from a former student of mine, a freshman. She was in the middle [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dublin Made Me</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/26/dublin-made-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/26/dublin-made-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 05:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This reflection post is by Seán Mullan, a professor at Irish Bible Institute, and makes me wonder &#8212; and ask you today &#8212; about the connection of place to our formation. How does your location shape you? Dublin Made Me Dublin made me&#8230;. the Dublin of old statutes, this arrogant city stirs proudly and secretly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Body Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/25/out-of-body-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/25/out-of-body-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Salon.com: (by Mario Beauregard) What do you think this sort of experience tells us about immortality? resurrection? theology? Pam was brought into the operating room at 7:15 a.m., she was given general anesthesia, and she quickly lost conscious awareness. At this point, Spetzler and his team of more than 20 physicians, nurses, and technicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Trips: Helping that Hurts?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/25/youth-trips-helping-that-hurts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/25/youth-trips-helping-that-hurts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Youth Ministry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are doing a series on Root and Dean&#8217;s new book, The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry, and each post is written by our friend, Syler Thomas, a youth pastor of fourteen years. This post concerns the upside and downside of youth ministry trips for service. In chapter 13 of The Theological Turn in Youth [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Righteous Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/25/the-righteous-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/25/the-righteous-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Ann F-R, and is a series on a new and provocative book that challenges how people think &#8212; or think they think. Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion explores how human morality develops and affects our daily choices and interactions. For most [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where do we go from here?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/25/where-do-we-go-from-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/25/where-do-we-go-from-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and Faith]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the 3d part of my presentation to BioLogos this March. Where do we go from here? As a professor I teach my students at least two things about method: face the facts and do not fear the facts. I believe this means we have to face both what the New Testament teaches and what science [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>92</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are Atheists Compassionate?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/are-atheists-compassionate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/are-atheists-compassionate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From LiveScience: Atheists and agnostics are more driven by compassion to help others than are highly religious people, a new study finds. That doesn&#8217;t mean highly religious peopledon&#8217;t give, according to the research to be published in the July 2012 issue of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. But compassion seems to drive religious people&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>MissioLife: Spiritual Formation</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/missiolife-spiritual-formation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/missiolife-spiritual-formation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MissioLife]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a tendency in the church to turn &#8220;spiritual formation&#8221; into a purely personal and private issue &#8212; into something that is between you and God. It is. Spiritual formation is personal but it is never private. This is why I appreciate MissioLife so much: it is about spiritual formation &#8230; Personally&#8230; Corporately&#8230; Locally &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alone Together</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/alone-together/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/alone-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sherry Turkle has written a very good book, called Alone Together, and this clip from a NYTimes article gives a good feel for where her book takes us in depth: Think of it as “I share, therefore I am.” We use technology to define ourselves by sharing our thoughts and feelings as we’re having them. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do We Have an Extrovert Ideal? (RJS)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/do-we-have-an-extrovert-ideal-rjs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/do-we-have-an-extrovert-ideal-rjs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evangelicalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday morning Scot linked an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Screening Out Introverts by William Pannapacker. The article is a comment on a new book by Susan Cain Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can&#8217;t Stop Talking. From the publisher&#8217;s description: Taking the reader on a journey from Dale Carnegie’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is War So Easy for American Christians?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/why-is-war-so-easy-for-american-christians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/24/why-is-war-so-easy-for-american-christians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 05:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Patrick Mitchel, an Irish theologian teaching in Dublin at Irish Bible Institute. Being from Europe and writing a post for Jesus Creed, I thought it would be appropriate and interesting to explore European and American attitudes to nationalism and violence. No more feisty conversation partner than Stanley Hauerwas will be found in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Our Mutt Language, English</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/23/our-mutt-language-english/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/23/our-mutt-language-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Atlantic:]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Authors Putting Down Authors</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/23/authors-putting-down-authors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/23/authors-putting-down-authors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing & Blogging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this post about author put-downs, and it goes on all the time&#8230; one of the solutions, and it is not easy to sustain, is to read, review and say positive remarks about authors with whom you disagree. But not all care to be peacemakers. I see some who can&#8217;t agree with a thing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Youth and a Theology of Suffering</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/23/youth-and-a-theology-of-suffering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/23/youth-and-a-theology-of-suffering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Ministry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Syler Thomas, a friend of mine who pastors youth in Chicagoland&#8217;s suburbs. Clearly present in Andrew Root’s theology (co-author of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry with Kenda Creasy Dean) is a focus on the presence of suffering and pain in the world, and God’s connection to it. This is helpful [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Theologians Thinking with Scientists</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/23/theologians-thinking-with-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/23/theologians-thinking-with-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sermon on the Mount]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of my presentation at BioLogos in March. Theologians thinking with scientists Let me give two examples of topics that are probably safer places to begin that practice of pastors and scientists thinking aloud together. My father was an English public school teacher; my church was fundamentalist; I was armed against [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Baseball Nicknames</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/22/baseball-nicknames/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/22/baseball-nicknames/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 17:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Baseball is the best sport for nicknames, and I wonder what you favorite baseball nickname is? But, here&#8217;s an author who thinks nicknames are disappearing: Imaginative and colorful nicknames for ballplayers, once a baseball staple, are disappearing, going the way of the spitball, the stirrup sock and Sunday doubleheaders. Boston&#8217;s Big Papi and Seattle&#8217;s King [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Tyranny of Extroversion</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/22/the-tyranny-of-extroversion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/22/the-tyranny-of-extroversion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[William Pannapacker has an exceptional piece in The Chronicle on recent studies on introversion, but it his opening experience that tells perhaps the whole of the story. As the piece rolls along he sketches some studies, one of which makes this significant observation: &#8220;According to Cain, the 19th century valued personal character based on seriousness, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Providential Evolution (RJS)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/22/providential-evolution-rjs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/22/providential-evolution-rjs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 10:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and Faith]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The current issue of Books and Culture contains a review of The Language of Science and Faith by Karl Giberson and Francis S. Collins provided by Alvin Plantinga, the John A. O&#8217;Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University Notre Dame. I worked through this book a bit over a year ago (March 2011) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Pervasive?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/22/28193/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/22/28193/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 05:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is from my friend, Patrick Mitchel, a theologian teaching in Dublin at Irish Bible Institute. Patrick teaches theology in a Story-framework, and I look forward to the day when his theology is in print for all of us to read. Being from Europe and writing a post for Jesus Creed, I thought it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skeptic or Believer?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/21/skeptic-or-believer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/21/skeptic-or-believer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Susan Lawler: But yesterday, as I was preparing to deliver a lecture on the evidence for evolution, I looked at the day’s quote and found myself embarking on an involuntary rant. Typically, my students remembered the rant and forgot the lecture. Worryingly, they may not have been able to tell the difference. Hopefully, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee &#8212; Good for Thinking?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/21/coffee-good-for-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/21/coffee-good-for-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coffee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve not had a post on coffee for awhile, so today&#8217;s the day. Do you find that coffee gets you into a thinking mode? Does it help you concentrate? (Oh, and by the way, we&#8217;re in Adelaide Australia, I&#8217;m teaching a course at Tabor Adelaide, and one of our aims here is to get some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With a tear in his eye</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/21/with-a-tear-in-his-eye/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/21/with-a-tear-in-his-eye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 10:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and Faith]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My presentation at BioLogos&#8230; surely a highlight of this academic year was getting to attend the event and offer this presentation. It is a repost of what appeared originally at BioLogos, and this lecture will be spread out this week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. With a Tear in His Eye At the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atonement, Michael Gorman&#8217;s Thesis</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/21/atonement-michael-gormans-thesis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/21/atonement-michael-gormans-thesis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 05:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atonement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Lee Wyatt, who blogs at Marginal Christianity. Sometimes the Answer is Right in Front of Our Noses: A Compelling Case of for “New Covenant Atonement” by Michael Gorman In the welter of talk and writing about “atonement” during the last fifteen years or so, a few things have become clearer while others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Announcement: Footsteps of Jesus and the Apostles</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/pre-announcement-footsteps-of-jesus-and-the-apostles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/pre-announcement-footsteps-of-jesus-and-the-apostles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 19:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kris and I would like to invite you to join us for a lifetime adventure in the footsteps of Jesus and the apostles. We are working on details, so some may shift slightly, but we plan on a 13-day tour of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) to visit some sites associated with the apostle Paul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstainer or Moderator?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/abstainer-or-moderator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/abstainer-or-moderator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 19:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27952</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Gretchen Rubin: For a long time, I kept trying this strategy of moderation–and failing. Then I read a line from Samuel Johnson, who said, when someone offered him wine: “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.” Ah ha! Like Dr. Johnson, I’m an “abstainer.” I find it far easier to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countries and Belief in God</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/countries-and-belief-in-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/countries-and-belief-in-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 18:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From LiveScience: Percent of residents who said they were certain of God&#8217;s existence: Japan: 4.3 percent East Germany: 7.8 percent Sweden: 10.2 Czech Republic: 11.1 Denmark: 13.0 Norway: 14.8 France: 15.5 Great Britain: 16.8 The Netherlands: 21.2 Austria: 21.4 Latvia: 21.7 Hungary: 23.5 Slovenia: 23.6 Australia: 24.9 Switzerland: 25.0 New Zealand: 26.4 West Germany: 26.7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That World Civ Class</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/that-world-civ-class/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/that-world-civ-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 16:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s high school graduation time and we’re going through some themes in the new book Game Plan: Practical Wisdom for the College Experience (co-written by Nic Gibson). The first chapter (written by Nic) deals with what he calls “three converging dangers” that students face on secular campuses: unlimited freedom, the absence of the comfortable Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer for the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/prayer-for-the-week-235/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/20/prayer-for-the-week-235/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 05:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer and Formation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[O God, the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: Do not leave us comfortless, but send us your Holy Spirit to strengthen us, and exalt us to that place where our Savior Christ has gone before; who lives and reigns with you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men, Women Behind the Wheel</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/19/men-women-behind-the-wheel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/19/men-women-behind-the-wheel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 18:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From AP: WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; Accidents in which drivers mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake tend to involve older female drivers in parking lots, a new government study has found. One of the study&#8217;s most striking and consistent findings was that nearly two-thirds of drivers who had such accidents were female. When looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Famous Philosophy Majors</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/19/famous-philosophy-majors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/19/famous-philosophy-majors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of famous individuals who were Philosophy Majors! GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS William Bennett&#8211; former Secretary of Education and Head of the Drug Enforcement Agency Patrick Buchanan&#8211; former Presidential Candidate and Political Columnist Angela Davis&#8211;Social Activist and Political Philosopher Jules Debray&#8211;Writer and Government Official, France Rahm Emanuel&#8211;Clinton White House Political Advisor Thomas Jefferson&#8211;U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Book Review: Michael J. Svigel</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/19/saturday-book-review-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/19/saturday-book-review-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 15:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evangelicalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Retro-Christianity by Michael J. Svigel, and this review is by David Moore. Dave is the founder of Two Cities Ministries (www.twocities.org) and the author of forthcoming, Pooping Elephants, Mowing Weeds: What Some Business Failed to Tell You. I have read many “critique” books of evangelicalism.  Authors such as David Wells, Mark Noll, James Davison Hunter, George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Meanderings</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/19/weekly-meanderings-313/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/19/weekly-meanderings-313/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 05:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weekly Meanderings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Adelaide Australia! From Bob Jones University to the Roman Catholic Church, the story of Dwight Longenecker. &#8220;I began to study the writings of the early Church fathers and got a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In our [Anglican] parish Bible study I took our people through a study of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bertrand Russell&#8217;s 10 Commands for Liberalism</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/18/bertrand-russells-10-commands-for-liberalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/18/bertrand-russells-10-commands-for-liberalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Maria Popova: Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows: Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Class on Steroids</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/18/internet-class-on-steroids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/18/internet-class-on-steroids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Wired: Last fall, the university in the heart of Silicon Valley did something it had never done before: It opened up three classes, including CS221, to anyone with a web connection. Lectures and assignments—the same ones administered in the regular on-campus class—would be posted and auto-graded online each week. Midterms and finals would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Theology, Good Ministry?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/18/good-theology-good-ministry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/18/good-theology-good-ministry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 10:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Youth Ministry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is by Syler Thomas, who blogs here (sometimes) but who also teamed with Chris Folmsbee and me to write Jesus Creed for Students. Syler pastors at Christ Church in Lake Forest, and in this series examines one of the most important youth ministry books to come along in a while. In The Theological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haidt: We are all hypocrites!</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/18/haidt-we-are-all-hypocrites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/18/haidt-we-are-all-hypocrites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 05:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=27999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is by regular reader and commenter here at the Jesus Creed, Ann F-R, and she is examining a very important and influential book by Jonathan Haidt for this blog. We need to be aware of this book. In some ways it confirms postmodernity&#8217;s cynicism; in other ways it transcends simplistic theories. Here&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Any Surprises Here?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/17/any-surprises-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/17/any-surprises-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The top ten most read books of the last fifty years:]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Chronotype?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/17/whats-your-chronotype/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/17/whats-your-chronotype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Brain Pickings by Maria Popova: But in Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired, a fine addition to these 7 essential books on time, German chronobiologist Till Roenneberg demonstrates through a wealth of research that our sleep patterns have little to do with laziness and other such scorned character flaws, and everything to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the God of the Gaps (RJS)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/17/beyond-the-god-of-the-gaps-rjs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/17/beyond-the-god-of-the-gaps-rjs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part One of the new book by Harry Lee Poe and Jimmy H. Davis God and the Cosmos: Divine Activity in Space, Time and History asks questions about the way humans have conceived of God and the way this impacts ideas about God’s action in the world. The last two chapters in Part One Poe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice and Peace &#8212; and Atonement</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/17/justice-and-peace-and-atonement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/17/justice-and-peace-and-atonement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atonement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Darrin W. Snyder Belousek teaches philosophy and religion at Ohio Northern University and Bluffton University. He taught previously at various church-related colleges—Louisburg College, Bethel College, Lithuania Christian College, Goshen College, and St. Mary’s College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and has studied at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He has published [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Girls vs. Boys &#8230; in Sports</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/girls-vs-boys-in-sports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/girls-vs-boys-in-sports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you think? PHOENIX &#8212; Instead of playing in a championship baseball game, Paige Sultzbach and her team won&#8217;t even make it to the dugout. A Phoenix school that was scheduled to play the 15-year-old Mesa girl and her male teammates forfeited the game rather than face a female player. Our Lady of Sorrows [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Top Five Voting Issues: Barna</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/top-five-voting-issues-barna/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/top-five-voting-issues-barna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Issues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From David Kinnaman at Barna: The faith leanings of likely voters are related to the perceived importance of these factors. For instance: • Evangelicals are much more likely than other voters to consider a candidate’s religious faith to be an important clue. Half of evangelicals (50%) listed that as a critical insight compared to just [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Great Words</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/great-words/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/great-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing & Blogging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[REUTERS /KEVIN LAMARQUE /LANDOV When traveling across the United States, it sometimes feels like the locals are speaking a whole different language. That’s where the Dictionary of American Regional English comes to the rescue. The last installment of this staggering five-volume tome, edited by Joan Houston Hall, was published last month, and let me tell you, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Comfortable in the Halls of Power</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/comfortable-in-the-halls-of-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/comfortable-in-the-halls-of-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evangelicalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Merritt knows the inside story of evangelicalism&#8217;s flirtation with power in the last two decades. Some might say he knows too much; some of it he has experienced himself; he shows the underbelly of some of the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s gamesmanship when it comes to political issues &#8212; including (sadly) environmentalism. His account in A [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bonhoeffer Wasn&#8217;t the Answer</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/bonhoeffer-wasnt-the-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/16/bonhoeffer-wasnt-the-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Ministry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post (and series) is by my friend at Christ Church of Lake Forest, Syler Thomas. I was talking with a friend recently about my new book Game Plan: Practical Wisdom for the College Experience (co-written by Nic Gibson, foreword by Scot McKnight) and he shared a story about the book he received to prepare him [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>The President&#8217;s Decision and You</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/15/the-presidents-decision-and-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/15/the-presidents-decision-and-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question the pollsters most want to know the answer to is this: Will President Obama&#8217;s public announcement that he has now decided to support same-sex marriage impact your vote? Will his decision impact your vote? why or why not? From NYTimes: WASHINGTON — About two hours after declaring his support forsame-sex marriage last week, President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs for Children</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/15/jobs-for-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/15/jobs-for-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>scotmcknight</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/?p=28409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Wells from USA Today: Remember when we were young, a million years ago, and we couldn&#8217;t wait to leave home and strike out on our own? Two things have changed. Our children can&#8217;t find jobs. Our children can find jobs, but they don&#8217;t like them. The good news is that more than half of recent college [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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