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		<title>It&#8217;s Not the End of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2011/05/its-not-the-end-of-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 17:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's too easy, though, to get caught up on the date fixing and the ridiculousness of claims of rapture and earthquakes happening in each time zone and obeying the international date line. It's all easy to ridicule, but it misses something actually worth noting. Perhaps it is the only thing really worth noting here. Harold Camping and others present a view of God devoid of love and a message devoid of the gospel.]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2010/07/prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lectionary lessons for this Sunday (July 25, 2010) center around the theme of prayer. We have Abraham&#8217;s entreaties to God for the sake of a few righteous people in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah from Genesis 18. In the reading from Colossians 2, starts out by holding up a life rooted in Christ [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Proper Place of the Law: What of Antinomianism?</title>
		<link>http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2010/03/proper-place-of-the-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the debates over human sexuality and the related discussions, the charge is frequently made by conservatives and traditionalists that the ELCA has drifted into antinomianism (rejecting the law). That charge has been unsurprisingly leveled once again by Robert Benne in the winter 2009 edition of Lutheran Forum in an essay titled &#8220;The Hazards of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Places</title>
		<link>http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2010/02/holy-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s post responded to certain streams of thought in the church about it&#8217;s future and the needs for reform and change in our life together. As a starting point, it used Walter Russell Mead&#8217;s blog entry called The Holy Crap Must Go. In that essay, Mead says that the church is unnecessarily burdened by maintaining [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity Crisis, Not Structural Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2010/02/identity-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of friends pointed out an interesting blog entry by Walter Russell Mead (son of Loren Mead) titled The Holy Crap Must Go. Mead notes the troubled finances and struggles for existence of many congregations, church bodies, and seminaries. Seminaries have been closing. Regional and national church budgets have been shrinking or strained. Many [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Believing and the Creed</title>
		<link>http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2009/11/believing-and-the-creed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up Karen Armstrong&#8217;s latest book The Case for God this weekend. While paging through the book at the bookstore, I found a discussion of the English word &#8220;believe&#8221; and it&#8217;s development of meaning. &#8220;In Middle English,&#8221; Armstrong notes, &#8220;bileven meant &#8216;to price; to value; to hold dear.&#8217;&#8221; It was only later that the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sola Scriptura</title>
		<link>http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2009/11/sola-scriptura/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on his blog Liturgy, Bosco Peters (an Anglican priest in New Zealand) has an item about the notion of sola scriputra on the occasion of the Anglican commemoration of the 16th Century English theologian Richard Hooker. For many, both historically and today, the phrase is taken at face value, as a literal statement of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>All Saints</title>
		<link>http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2009/11/all-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, November 1, was the feast of All Saints. On that day, the church honors the whole communion of saints: all who walk in faith with Christ, our forebears in the faith whose witness has proceeded us. Many congregations also specifically remember those who have died in the last year. I&#8217;ve been thinking about funeral [&#8230;]]]></description>
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