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		<title>Bart Ehrman forges on in Forged</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/04/bart-ehrman-forges-on-in-forged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bart Ehrman intrigues me. Here&#8217;s a guy who apparently could do real research and perhaps even add something to the discussion of Biblical and extra-Biblical writings, but he doesn&#8217;t. It seems to me that he is being purposefully deceptive (i.e. he lies). An alternate theory is that he is really quite clueless, but is able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Unconditional?</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/02/book-review-unconditional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Brian Zahnd&#8217;s new book, Unconditional?: The call of Jesus to radical forgiveness. Overall, it&#8217;s pretty awesome. If I were to come up with a &#8220;Top Ten&#8221; list of Christian books, this would definitely be included. The topic of forgiveness is one that I&#8217;ve thought about a lot over the last 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News for Anxious Christians pt 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The church, when it&#8217;s not seduced by consumerist spirituality, is in the business of cultivating ordinary Christians. This is perhaps my favorite quote in the book I&#8217;ve been reviewing, Good News for Anxious Christians. This is not, however, the focus of contemporary evangelicalism. Who wants to be ordinary? &#8220;Come join us—be ordinary!&#8221; is not something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News for Anxious Christians pt 3</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/01/good-news-for-anxious-christians-pt-3/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2011/01/good-news-for-anxious-christians-pt-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first 4 chapters of Anxious Christians deals with what Cary calls &#8220;the core of what is distinctive about the new evangelical theology.&#8221; When Cary refers to &#8220;new evangelical theology,&#8221; he is referring to an approach to spirituality and thinking which would have been unheard of a generation or 2 ago.  He describes it so: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News for Anxious Christians, pt 2</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/01/good-news-for-anxious-christians-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first page of the preface of his book, Phillip Cary writes: Some folks may find it odd when I say Christians need the gospel, but this is something I firmly believe. &#8230; It&#8217;s hearing the gospel of Christ and receiving him by faith, over and over again, that makes the real transformation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News for Anxious Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am almost finished with Phillip Cary&#8217;s book, Good News for Anxious Christians—10 Practical Things You Don&#8217;t Have to Do. When my brother-in-law gave it to me at Christmas, he remarked that it seemed like a good companion to my book, and he was absolutely right. For example, on the first page of the preface, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Waiting for Superman</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/11/review-waiting-for-superman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I went to see Waiting for Superman, the documentary about the failing American public school system. Knowing that the director also did Al Gore&#8217;s movie, I was fully prepared to by irritated by gaps in logic and the misuse of data. However, I have to say that I was quite impressed. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Imaginary Jesus</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/06/review-imaginary-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aldenswan.com/?p=1262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m part of the Ooze Viral Bloggers, a random group of bloggers who have the opportunity to get a few books for free in exchange for writing reviews.  I don&#8217;t do it a lot, because to be honest, many of the books just don&#8217;t sound that interesting, and I always have a stack of 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth in Spite of Itself</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2010/05/truth-in-spite-of-itself/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2010/05/truth-in-spite-of-itself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 07:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pope This is my body, he said, two thousand years ago. This is my blood. It was the only religion that delivered exactly what it promised: life eternal for its adherents. There are some of us alive today who remember him. And some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think [...]]]></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>
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				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
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		<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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