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		<title>Counting the Cost, or Provoking Persecution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 20:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s sermon was from Luke 14, in which Jesus turns to the large crowds following him to Jerusalem and says &#8220;Whoever doesn&#8217;t hate&#8230;family&#8230;their own life&#8230;and give up all their possessions cannot be my disciple&#8221; (paraphrased).  His use of hyperbole here is just pointing out that these are things that are important enough to us &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/counting-the-cost-or-provoking-persecution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=415&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gods and Gaming: A New Kind of Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 03:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another comment on an old post about gaming made me decide to post this here.  Let me know what you think! _______________________________ In the beginning, Tiamat the elder goddess of chaos found the younger gods to be noisy and annoying, and planned to kill them. Terrified, they looked to the strongest among them, Marduk, to &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/gods-and-gaming-a-new-kind-of-hero/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=411&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holiness vs. Action in The Name of the Rose</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: this post wanders a bit.  To cut to the chase, jump down to the break.) In reading Umberto Eco&#8217;s celebrated novel The Name of the Rose today, I came across an interesting and troubling passage. Adso, a young novice, pupil of the protagonist, and narrator, is trying to find the difference between orthodox orders &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/holiness-vs-action-in-the-name-of-the-rose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=402&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith Through Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted some musings about faith and art.  Here&#8217;s a paper I wrote about their necessary intersection (with examples from Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein!).  I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it!  I&#8217;d very much like to hear your thoughts, but be warned &#8211; it&#8217;s a long post. ***** &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/faith-through-art/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=398&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Story and Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before about the possibility that some, or even much, of the Bible is myth, and how that&#8217;s okay; somehow, something being fiction does not necessarily make it untrue.  Now I&#8217;m taking a course called Religious Themes in Literature, and the first assignment is to write about how faith and art intersect.  There&#8217;s so &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/on-myth-story-and-christianity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=391&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ant Man, Noah, and the Value of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard it said (many times) that there are many English Literature professors who are bemoaning the lack of biblical literacy in our society, because it&#8217;s difficult to understand English Literature if we do not understand the Bible.  As the argument goes, the dominant themes and issues that our culture reflects on come from scripture, &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/ant-man-noah-and-the-value-of-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=388&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Heaven, Can We Fly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short thought about heaven. I&#8217;ve long noticed that our cultural notion of heaven doesn&#8217;t align very closely with what scripture says about it.  When I was a kid, I thought that heaven was a place in the sky, maybe on the clouds or maybe just beyond them, where everyone can do whatever they want.  &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/in-heaven-can-we-fly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=385&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Myth in the Bible, and Bultmann</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We use the term &#8220;myth&#8221; to refer to things that are not true, but this is not the literary definition.  Myth is a genre of literature that, like all ancient literature, focuses on the significance of an event rather than the event itself.  The difference between an ancient myth and an ancient history is the &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/on-myth-in-the-bible-and-bultmann/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=378&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Sacrament and Participation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sacrament.  What a loaded word. For much of my Christian life, it was a dirty word.  It spoke of the domination of Christians by a legalistic hierarchy with a dubious history.  It referred to going through the motions of empty ritual in an attempt to earn salvation.  It represented everything that was wrong with the &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/on-sacrament-and-participation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=374&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus the Activist, and the Importance of Non-Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who always says that Jesus was completely a-political.  In some sense I suppose she&#8217;s right: he always avoided partisan issues (e.g. Pharisees vs. Sadducees).  But is the realm of politics limited to discussing which party or system of governance we follow? Today I was driving a feed truck, but I really &#8230; <a href="http://stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/jesus-the-activist-and-the-importance-of-non-violence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stumblingthroughtheology.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9578276&#038;post=370&#038;subd=stumblingthroughtheology&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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