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		<title>Whatever became of sin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1973 Dr. Karl Menninger wrote a little book with the provocative title, Whatever Became of Sin?, in which he questioned the disappearance of right and wrong from psychiatry. It was a good question in 1973, and it&#8217;s a good question today. Coincidentally, after I had begun to write this post, I ran across this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deitrich Bonhoeffer on certainty</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/03/deitrich-bonhoeffer-on-certainty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is certain is that we are always allowed to live in the nearness of and under the presence of God. What is certain is that this life God has made available for us is a completely new life. For us nothing is impossible anymore, because for God nothing is impossible. No earthly power can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent Sunday, Anglican style</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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>On attending church</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2009/08/on-attending-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: &#8220;Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: &#8216;God, I thank you that I am not like other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Episcopal quandary</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2009/07/my-episcopal-quandary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find myself in the midst of a quandary.  I have, over the past several months, fallen in love with a church service.  Not a church, mind you, but the service.  As I&#8217;ve mentioned in the past, last December I started attending a local Episcopal church.  After being greatly disappointed with Lutheran (ELCA) services, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The down side of Christianity</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2008/05/the-down-side-of-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it this place that makes me fall from you Forget the words that once rang so true Did we expect that life was ever fair, my god . . . I sowed a field of rose and reaped a whipping rod And everything I&#8217;ve held too tight inside Could make a part of me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2008/04/god-loves-you-and-has-a-wonderful-plan-for-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theological Musings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I find that I sometimes have issues with what Michael Spencer has to say over at internetmonk.com, but I do appreciate his willingness to think outside of his particular box. He comes from a Southern Baptist background, I believe, although he considers himself &#8220;post-evangelical.&#8221; As with all of us, it&#8217;s very difficult to completely shake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Resurrection problem</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2008/03/the-resurrection-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith, Science & Doubt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. &#8230; If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. - Paul, 1st Corinthians 15 Easter (at least the Western Easter) is this coming Sunday. Knowing that, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webber: The Divine Embrace 1</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2008/01/webber-the-divine-embrace-chapter-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
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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>The Beatitudes according to Marc Cohn</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2007/10/the-beatitudes-according-to-marc-cohn/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2007/10/the-beatitudes-according-to-marc-cohn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meditation for Today: Now I&#8217;m just another traveller On another winding road I&#8217;m trying to walk some kind of line I&#8217;m trying to pull some kind of load Now sometimes I move real easy Sometimes I can&#8217;t catch my breath Sometimes I see my father&#8217;s footsteps And man it scares me half to death But [...]]]></description>
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