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		<title>Was Jesus Gay?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently, Sir Elton John referred to Jesus as “a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man.” The publishing of such a statement is bound to stir up some trouble in certain parts of the Christian community, and it has.  But what does such &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/was-jesus-gay/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Same disaster, opposite interpretations:  Pat Robertson’s analysis of the earthquake in Haiti shows that Christendom is a myth.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last year or so I have heard a number of people say something like this: “I’m a Christian…but not that kind of Christian.”  Indeed, I’ve even heard that from the mouth of a Christian Bishop!  And it’s a &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/same-disaster-opposite-interpretations-pat-robertson%e2%80%99s-analysis-of-the-earthquake-in-haiti-shows-that-christendom-is-a-myth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Suburban Studies, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Brandon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A. Bartlett Giamatti, former president of Yale University who served for a short time as commissioner of Major League Baseball, was fond of noting that the word &#8220;paradise&#8221; comes from the Persian that means &#8220;enclosed green space&#8221;&#8211; a baseball field, &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/suburban-studies-part-i/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gay Marriage: New Definition or Contradiction in Terms?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gay marriage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Grant’s thought-provoking post and accompanying discursion inspired me to write a mini-manifesto on gay marriage and related issues.  I’d like my friends who disagree with me to better understand that there is plenty of logic to go around in this &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/gay-marriage-new-definition-or-contradition-in-terms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A STONEWALL DISPATCH: Pat Robertson thinks same-sex couples don’t want to marry and other craziness.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don't Ask. Don't Tell.]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last several weeks, I have found myself running across quite a few news stories and other items surrounding the issue of same-sex marriage and other issues that address human sexuality.  I am also very interested in the issue, &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/a-stonewall-dispatch-pat-robertson-thinks-same-sex-couples-don%e2%80%99t-want-to-marry-and-other-craziness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How is this justice?</title>
		<link>https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/how-is-this-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Brandon]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other week, as I peddled a stationary bike at my favorite health club, I caught a portion of a (close captioned) town hall meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on CNBC.  He addressed the administration/treasury&#8217;s efforts in easing the &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/how-is-this-justice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tongues of Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This past Sunday, the Revised Common Lectionary brought us into the only piece of wisdom literature in the New Testament, the Epistle of James.  I’ve been quite a fan of the letter since my first encounter with it, so I was &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/tongues-of-fire/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is this idolatrous?</title>
		<link>https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/is-this-idolatrous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, I happened upon what seems to me to be a rather strange Christian creed recently.  It’s actually the creed of an institute of higher learning (I did not know institutes for learning – even those with religious affiliations – had &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/is-this-idolatrous/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Theology Without Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A while back, a discursionists post quoted from famed author and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis’ work Mere Christianity.  The quote in question dealt with Lewis’ attempted deductive argument for belief in the divinity of Jesus, or, in somewhat common nomenclature, &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/theology-without-thinking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Best Songs of the Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, I suppose the decade is nearly 97% over, and in honor of Pitchfork staff&#8217;s recent publication of its top 500 songs of the 2000s (which is relatively piss poor as far as Pitchfork lists go, but it was pretty &#8230; <a href="https://thediscursionists.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/728/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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