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	<description>Trying to find my place in the nativity of misfits</description>
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		<title>Hymn 101 (Joe Pug)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah I&#8217;ve come to know the wishlist of my father. I&#8217;ve come to know the shipwrecks where he wished. I&#8217;ve come to wish aloud among the overdressed crowd. Come to witness now the sinking of the ship. Throwing pennies from the seatop next to it. And I&#8217;ve come to roam the forest past the village [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shields of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Shields of faith forged on youth’s anvil Amid the hammerings of spaking and understanding Proudly carried in plains of battle Absorbing fiery darts so effortlessly That one doubts the archers’ malice More than a conqueror until the day its weight Wraps around the warrior A cicada shell Whose defenses must be breeched Or entomb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Personality Bending Power of Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I heard Donald Miller lecture on story. He quoted Robert McKee and his theory that stories are &#8220;sense-making&#8221; devices. He claims the human brain is wired to respond to stories to set its moral compass by them. Don pointed out how we don&#8217;t need any narrator to tell us to like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus and Uncle Donnie: Skipping Church,Swapping Jokes</title>
		<link>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/11/funeral-sermon-excerpt-jesus-for-the-black-sheep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[black sheep]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m re-posting some of my favorite posts from the past year. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from a funeral sermon I wrote for my Uncle Don&#8217;s service. I&#8217;m officiating the funeral of my Uncle Don today. I didn&#8217;t know Don very well. I come from a very large family. &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply&#8221; about the only commandment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming Planet Eden and the Daily Grind</title>
		<link>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/10/becoming-planet-eden-and-the-daily-grind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[N.T. Wright]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m prepping for a class I&#8217;m teaching and I&#8217;ve spent the weekend visiting Genesis 1-3 are, in N.T. Wright&#8217;s view, some of the most explosive pieces of Scripture in the Bible. I&#8217;ve been reading how our creation story compares with creation accounts in other Ancient Near Eastern religions. It&#8217;s fascinating, really. In the Mesopotamian Epics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Spotting Pharisees is that They Always Work for Us</title>
		<link>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/08/the-problem-with-spotting-pharisees-is-that-they-always-work-for-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 08:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Sweet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Leonard Sweet (author/futurist/theologian), noted that when Jesus walked the earth, 6000 Pharisees were employed to support and enforce Judaism’s proper expression. The first Biblical mention of the Pharisees was in the book of Ezra. The original Pharisees consisted of scribes and sages but eventually they took on functions more associated with lawyers. The Pharisees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelicalism&#8217;s Very Own &#8220;Lost Cause&#8221; Ideology</title>
		<link>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/07/evangelicalisms-very-own-lost-cause-ideology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m building a character for an upcoming novel. She&#8217;s a tough business woman from Texas. Well mannered and hospitable, but her genteel speech masks a determined cut throat drive. I described the character to a friend who informed me just how fake the notion of Southern hospitality was. His perspective put me back a bit. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Religion: &#8220;Sins of the Fathers&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/04/bad-religion-sins-of-the-fathers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/04/bad-religion-sins-of-the-fathers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently shared a meal with a friend who was trying to help an adult child navigate the consequences some grave mistakes made in her young adulthood. We talked, vented, commiserated over how frightening parenting is. He welled up in tears. My friend felt guilt every parent feel when a child stumbles. We all wonder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Book Reviews: Madearis, Lyons, Smith</title>
		<link>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/02/quick-book-reviews-madearis-lyons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/02/quick-book-reviews-madearis-lyons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s three books I&#8217;ve read recently worth passing on to you: &#160; Speaking of Jesus  (Carl Medearis) Carl Medearis writes from the perspective of living as a Christian in Beirut, Lebanon, where he strives to build bridges between the Muslim and Christian communities. Over the twelve years of living overseas, he developed a conversational and non-coercive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonah: Prophet, Anti-hero, and the Face of Evil</title>
		<link>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/01/jonah-prophet-anti-hero-and-the-face-of-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.larryshallenberger.com/2012/05/01/jonah-prophet-anti-hero-and-the-face-of-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;m hard pressed to think of a more complex anti-hero in scripture. The Bible has its villains: Goliath, Judas, and Pharisees come to mind. But these antagonists are, by and large, two dimensional.  The narrators don&#8217;t give us a window into their thoughts and motivations. They&#8217;re each mere foils. Jonah on the other hand gets [...]]]></description>
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