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		<title>Adam, Eve, and original sin (Augustine&#8217;s heresy)</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/09/adam-eve-and-original-sin-augustines-heresy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Exploring the Twain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most western Christians don&#8217;t realize that our understanding of man&#8217;s state of sinfulness — sometimes using terms like &#8220;total depravity&#8221; and &#8220;original sin&#8221; — is largely the invention of Augustine of Hippo, and that the majority of the Church at that time rejected his ideas.  The Eastern churches still do. The doctrine of Original Sin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox hell and the Scarlet Rob Bell</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/03/orthodox-hell-and-the-scarlet-rob-bell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Eastern (Orthodox) church has been thinking about hell a lot longer than anyone else, simply because they&#8217;ve been around the longest. Yes, there were Christians before Augustine. However, very few western evangelicals (of the post-liturgical variety) care about what the early church (post-Canon) thinks. After all, they didn&#8217;t have the benefit of the Enlightenment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Worship</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/03/defining-worship-2/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2011/03/defining-worship-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written a little about worship in the past. As someone who&#8217;s &#8220;been around the block&#8221; with regard to worship, I have often voiced that much of what happens under the guise of worship is not really worship (and thereby admitting that some of my own concepts of worship were not accurate, or at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent Sunday, Anglican style</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/11/advent-sunday-anglican-style/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2010/11/advent-sunday-anglican-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spiritual stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Liturgy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day I was assaulted in church</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/06/the-day-i-was-assaulted-in-church/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2010/06/the-day-i-was-assaulted-in-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aldenswan.com/?p=1269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, let me say that I am no wimp when it comes to loud music. I lived through the sixties. I operated farm equipment for years without using earplugs. I&#8217;ve attended many, many concerts.  I&#8217;ve played electric guitar in a band, before we used things like drum cages. I typically stood close to the drummer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give pastors some grace</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/05/give-pastors-some-grace/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2010/05/give-pastors-some-grace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 16:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Gospel Uncensored]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few days a couple of former-Christians-become-atheist sites have picked up on this article (by Dr. Richard J. Krejcir) on Schaeffer Institute site about the sad state of evangelical pastors. For a number of reasons, the atheist sites present the material in a more compelling way than does Krejcir&#8217;s article. Here&#8217;s just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been to this church!</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/05/ive-been-to-this-church/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2010/05/ive-been-to-this-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 05:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sunday&#8217;s Coming&#8221; Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo. via James F. McGrath]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Todd Hunter&#8217;s Giving Church Another Chance</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/05/review-todd-hunters-giving-church-another-chance/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2010/05/review-todd-hunters-giving-church-another-chance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 17:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aldenswan.com/?p=1237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Todd Hunter’s Giving Church Another Chance is an interesting—and perhaps brilliant—little book. I am sure that this is not everything that Todd Hunter could say on the subjects of church, liturgy and life, but he says just enough to make you want more, which I believe is precisely the point. Todd has a gift of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Judaizers</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/03/the-new-judaizers/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2010/03/the-new-judaizers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aldenswan.com/?p=1141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I was flipping around the AM dial as I drove home from church. It&#8217;s kind of a sick practice of mine, wanting to hear what local pastors are preaching.  Often it just irritates me (but I have to point out that I always enjoy the sermons from a certain pastor named Randy). Today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Conflict For Church Boards &amp; Committees</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/03/managing-conflict-for-church-boards-committees/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2010/03/managing-conflict-for-church-boards-committees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my Conflict blog: We all agree that bad conflict is destructive.  An apparent lack of conflict is also destructive, because there really is no lack of conflict. It’s either open and obvious, or it’s hidden; and hidden conflict is, in my opinion, far more destructive.  How many people disappear from churches for no apparent [...]]]></description>
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