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		<title>Uses of the Law</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2012/01/uses-of-the-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Law & Gospel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gospel Uncensored]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I spent the first 20+ years of my life as a Lutheran and have continued to hold true to many Lutheran ideals (including the benefits of folk music, beer, and the love of a good woman), I&#8217;ve only recently become aware of the dispute about the valid uses of the Law (that would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Slavery Issue: Did Paul support slavery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Faith, Science & Doubt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each one should remain in the situation which he was in when God called him. Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you—although if you can gain your freedom, do so.  For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman; similarly, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heresy of Charles Finney</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 19:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gospel Uncensored]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among American evangelicals, Finney stands as something of an icon—a paragon of modern evangelism, a hero to folks like Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham. While I am by no means an expert on Finney or early American revivals (I was raised Lutheran, after all), it has been my impression that Finney actually contributed to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence that the Gospels are Eyewitness Accounts</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/04/evidence-that-the-gospels-are-eyewitness-accounts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theological Musings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The video posted below caught my attention last night. I clicked on it just to see what it was about, and completely hooked me—I ended up watching the whole hour. There have been a number of voices recently, such as my favorite target Bart Ehrman, who have claimed that the Gospels are essentially forgeries, written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ross Douthat&#8217;s Case for Hell</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/04/ross-douthats-case-for-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Ross Douthat in the NY Times Opinion Pages: But the more important factor in hell’s eclipse, perhaps, is a peculiar paradox of modernity. As our lives have grown longer and more comfortable, our sense of outrage at human suffering — its scope, and its apparent randomness — has grown sharper as well. The argument [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turns out I might agree with Karl Barth, kind of</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theological Musings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just found out that in that that great theological fondue pot that is my mind, I have come to a conclusion that is shared with Karl Barth, kind of. (I guess that means that if I&#8217;m a heretic, at least I&#8217;m a semi-respectable heretic.)  For those who don&#8217;t know of Barth, he was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Limitations of Free Will</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/04/the-limitations-of-free-will/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theological Musings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.” ~Martin Luther Contrary to Luther, I believe in free will. I always have. It&#8217;s possible, I guess, that I was designed to believe in free will, but I don&#8217;t think so. When Peter says, &#8220;His divine power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith, or faith?</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/04/faith-or-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://aldenswan.com/2011/04/faith-or-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to Phillip Cary&#8217;s series Luther: Gospel, Law and Reformation from The Teaching Company.  As I&#8217;ve said before, I was raised Lutheran (what used to be the LCA Synod). When I was 12 or so, I learned Reformation history as part of my confirmation classes (Can you believe 2 years of study in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Bell&#8217;s confession of faith</title>
		<link>http://aldenswan.com/2011/04/rob-bells-confession-of-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theological Musings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is worth sharing, considering all of the hoopla about Rob Bell&#8217;s book Love Wins: Thanks to Scot McKnight for sharing this.]]></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>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exploring the Twain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor and/or Sarcasm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theological Musings]]></category>

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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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