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	<title>Joel J. Miller</title>
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		<title>Egyptian Christians weather &#8216;climate of impunity,&#8217; says U.S. State Dept.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[al-Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coptic Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christians in Egypt suffer amid a &#8220;climate of impunity,&#8221; according to the U.S. State Department&#8217;s newly released International Religious Freedom Report. Despite word of positive developments &#8212; including prosecution for the murder of a Coptic man and occasionally increased police security for threatened Copts &#8212; the meager gains hardly diminish the unimaginable threats regularly faced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One thing your mind needs more than anything else</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Dennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maximus the Confessor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scientist, philosopher, and atheist gadfly Daniel Dennett offers some helpful guidelines for those looking to better engage ideas. His seven tools, excerpted from his new book, Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking, should prove helpful to a large number of readers. The advice ranges from &#8220;Answer rhetorical questions&#8221; and &#8220;Employ Occam&#8217;s Razor&#8221; to &#8220;Beware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six books for every pastor&#8217;s library</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Lindsley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Godawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory the Great]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pastors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Henry Reardon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Louis Wilken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skye Jethani]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/?p=5829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pastors buy a ton of books, according to a new survey by the Barna Group. On average pastors purchase about forty-five titles a year, considerably more than the general population. How many books are we talking about? Protestant congregations number about 315,000 in this country, Catholic and Orthodox another 25,000. That means pastors buy about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My problem with &#8216;Life of Pi&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIY spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life of Pi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yann Martel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Megan and I finally got around to watching Life of Pi. It&#8217;s a beautifully filmed and extravagant spectacle, but it didn&#8217;t work for us. When I first expressed my disappointment, I received several negative reactions. It&#8217;s a movie that seems either to resonate deeply or not at all. Here&#8217;s where it failed for me. Pi&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt intensifies crackdown on Christians, dissidents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim Brotherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[persecution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Tawadros II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Christian schoolteacher in Egypt has been detained by authorities for allegedly insulting Islam and Muhammad. Demyana Emad is twenty-three and teaches social studies at the Sheik Sultan Primary School in Luxor. She denies the charge and claims extremists urged students to falsely accuse her. The allegation is troubling. Last year another Christian teacher, Bishoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dallas Willard, Jesus Freak: Todd Hunter remembers his friend, mentor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 11:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dallas Willard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kingdom of God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Todd Hunter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I heard that philosopher and author Dallas Willard had died, my mind jumped to Bishop Todd Hunter. I was with him a few weeks back and he mentioned then that Willard was seriously ill. After news of his passing, I asked Todd if he would share a reflection on the life and impact of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go ahead, try failure! The spiritual virtue of blowing it</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2013/05/go-ahead-be-a-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 02:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economist Thomas Hazlett once told a story about the father of his high-school girlfriend. &#8220;I must say,&#8221; the man boasted, &#8220;that in my dating days, I never once asked a girl out who didn&#8217;t say &#8216;yes.&#8217;&#8221; Hazlett figured the brag was calculated to make him feel insecure. But it didn&#8217;t really work. &#8220;Even as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The God who weeps</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2013/05/the-god-who-weeps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2013/05/the-god-who-weeps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 10:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bethany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Viola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lazarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where is God when we suffer? A new book by Frank Viola says he&#8217;s there by our side, suffering with us. Viola&#8217;s newest, God&#8217;s Favorite Place on Earth, recounts the biblical stories of Jesus&#8217; time in Bethany, the town of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, who Jesus raised from the dead in anticipation of his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disillusioned by the church</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2013/04/disillusioned-by-the-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2013/04/disillusioned-by-the-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had an exchange in which someone mentioned leaving the church. Who hasn&#8217;t? He quit participating some time back, and he&#8217;s not alone. There are any number of reasons people walk out and don&#8217;t return. There are those who wake up one day and decide the whole enterprise is false. But most seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech highlights revival of the faith in Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2013/04/tech-highlights-revival-of-orthodoxy-in-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2013/04/tech-highlights-revival-of-orthodoxy-in-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthodoxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[persecution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found this video very moving. It captures scenes from an exhibition on Orthodoxy in Moscow. It&#8217;s touching to see the deep reverence shown by the faithful. And it&#8217;s horrifying to view the footage of the Communists and their destruction of churches and icons. Even for for those of us in the West who&#8217;ve never [...]]]></description>
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