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		<title>when the saints impose</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/when-the-saints-impose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return&#8230;&#8221; were the words uttered as ashes were smudged in the sign of the cross upon my forehead (recalling God’s words to Adam in Genesis 3:19).  The imposition of ashes has been a longstanding Christian tradition, marking the beginning of a season of contemplation and sobriety: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=137&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on rightly ordering ordination</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/on-rightly-ordering-ordination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Communion of Saints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecclesiology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[On Being/Becoming Baptist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago my mother was ordained as an elder in the Church of the Nazarene.  The service took place in an off-the-beaten-path Tabernacle (an old converted airplane hanger) on the district campgrounds in Southern Illinois.  This was a much anticipated ordination service for our family&#8211;not simply for the novelty of a woman being ordained, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=131&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>starting the year off right: reflections on epiphany</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/starting-the-year-off-right-reflections-on-epiphany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Epiphany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The calendar year opens with the Christian feast of Epiphany: oft celebrated as the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles&#8211;a commemoration of the Magi&#8217;s recognition (and therefore worship) of the child as Divine. Beyond belting out strains of &#8220;We Three Kings&#8221; at Christmas, as a child Epiphany served as a form of &#8216;shock and awe&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=123&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the &#8216;blessed&#8217; poor</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/the-blessed-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preferential Option for the Poor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My uncle is in the process of becoming a Cistercian monk.  It is a lengthy journey, full of long periods of silence and contemplation over a period of years.  During this time, the vows of obedience, chastity, and poverty are considered.  In his final days of the process, he met with the Abbott and made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=112&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>why I love the city&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/why-i-love-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an early (7:30 am) dental appointment yesterday morning. The dentist is about 8 blocks away from my building, and there was a significant snow storm blowing in. The walk there wasn&#8217;t bad, but the walk home was different: the snow was wet, the dentist had been late, I was cross, half my face [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=109&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on saints and citizenship</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/on-saints-and-citizenship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw the news online Monday, that Madelyn Dunham, the grandmother of now -President-elect Barack Obama, had passed away just 48 hours before he became the first African American to be elected President of the United States, I grieved.  At the age of 86 and having faced all sorts of discrimination against both her daughter and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=99&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>scripture on the wrong side of the tracks…</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/scripture-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Each morning I take the elevated train (&#8216;the El&#8217;, if you are from Chicago) into the heart of the city (the &#8220;Loop&#8221;) from the north side.    This is the third year I&#8217;ve made this daily commute, and there are identifiable landmarks which help me gauge my progress: I look for the colorful Vietnamese shops [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=94&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>oh geesh, Ganesh&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/oh-geesh-ganesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Christology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The company I work for recently reorganized, and several of my friends now are reporting to new managers. One of these managers has taken a somewhat &#8216;hard&#8217; line on having any personal effects in his employees&#8217; cubicles.  So I&#8217;ve recently inherited some items that now sit on the shelf above my desk.  These friends come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=88&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a note on my note&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/a-note-on-my-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Christology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the fourth footnote in my post &#8220;what about Bob?&#8221; (July 8, 208), I commented in the following fashion: &#8220;The kenosis of God (self-giving) in becoming human affords humanity in all its particularity the gift of immanence from the transcendent Deity.  This scandalous contradiction is the heart of the Christian faith: the human God.  This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=59&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>blessed unity?  a frustrated Trinitarian writes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://comictheologian.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/blessed-unity-a-frustrated-trinitarian-writes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[On Unity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pneumatology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trinitarian thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve described how my local congregation makes a concerted effort towards inclusiveness: to the point that our own levels of comfort are stretched and we discover that we can either be fragile and break, or that we can be much more resilient and stronger than our fears ever allowed us to imagine, and our minds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=comictheologian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3739695&amp;post=62&amp;subd=comictheologian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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