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		<title>Why worship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a very interesting post this weekend at Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength that challenges the very core of contemporary church life: worship. If you attend a contemporary-style church, chances are you know that it&#8217;s all about the worship.  Walk into any of these evangelical churches—many with cool, new-age-sounding names like Daybreak or Morningspring, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abba does not mean &#8220;daddy,&#8221; okay?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justified cringing Being raised in a formal, liturgical church, I&#8217;ve always been uncomfortable with the current fad of calling God &#8220;Daddy.&#8221; In fact, I cringe every time I hear it. I used to think this was my own issue, but as it turns out, I have been right to cringe because &#8220;abba&#8221; does not mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 reasons to [not] attend church</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this post by Kurt Onken today at the Wittenberg Trail, and thought it was worth referencing. The socially-palatable, seeker over-sensitive church has no future.  This may appear to some to show that Christianity is losing ground.  However, I disagree. I think Christianity has already lost ground in many churches.  This is why people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webber: The Divine Embrace 9: What now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final chapter in Webber&#8217;s The Divine Embrace is entitled Life Together, which is, of course, where all this ends, in church. One of my repeated critiques of a contemporary church experience is that it is essentially existential, focusing on the self. Webber agrees, saying that the problem is that spirituality itself is taught as generating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine, &#8220;Christians&#8221; wrong about Heaven?</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2008/02/imagine-christians-wrong-about-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time Magazine online jumped into eschatological waters yesterday with an interview with N.T. Wright concerning his latest book, Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church. An introduction to the interview states: N.T. &#8220;Tom&#8221; Wright is one of the most formidable figures in the world of Christian thought &#8230; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two views of Scripture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I wrote a bit about the authority of the Bible, which you can read here. Beneath the issues of orthodoxy, orthopraxy, theology and denominationalism we will often find some discussion about the Scriptures, with questions as seemingly elementary as, &#8220;what constitutes Scripture?&#8221; We are taught as children that the Bible consists of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webber: The Divine Embrace 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other evening I sat down to finish The Bourne Legacy (which I&#8217;ll be blogging on soon), but first started to page through the books I had just received from Amazon. I turned to Chapter 2 of Robert Webber&#8217;s The Divine Embrace, and was immediately hooked. Even though the hour was late &#8211; normally too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Existentialist theology vs community</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2007/12/existentialist-theology-vs-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post, I discussed the implications that a common contemporary worship style has on the community of the church: &#8230; what I see happening is that our contemporary freedom in worship &#8211; to raise hands or not, to sit, stand, jump or twirl &#8211; plus the existential nature of the lyrics in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Existentialist worship and the death of community</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2007/11/existentialist-worship-and-the-death-of-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had emo-worship in our church yesterday; at least the singing part of worship (think Dashboard Confessional). Song after breathy, angst-ridden, emotion-filled song delivered by the 20-something worship leader invited us to share in a series of existential experiences that were not necessarily our worship experiences. They were, perhaps, the worship experiences and emotions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is &#8220;real&#8221; worship to be found?</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2007/10/where-is-real-worship-to-be-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the i-monk: If you want to see genuine worshipers, I’m not sure your local evangelical “praise and worship” service is necessarily the right place to go. Maybe….maybe you might want to stop in that 8 a.m. mass over at St. William’s. This is a nice companion to something I wrote a while back. Someday [...]]]></description>
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