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		<title>Day Nine: What&#8217;s at Stake in the Gender Role Debate?</title>
		<link>http://maveth.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/whats-at-stake-in-the-gender-role-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 18:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post seemed to prompt a myriad of other questions from readers and from my own ruminations. There can be little argument that gender roles have been and will continue to be an issue for much of the Christian church for many years (perhaps generations) to come. This all prompts the beginning of what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=585&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Eight: Mars Hill and Gender Roles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a student of theology searching through sources that are immediately obvious (Mars Hill Church’s web page) and easily attainable (the publications of Pastor Mark Driscoll) concerning the theology of Mars Hill Church, you will find nothing surprising, nothing indecent, nothing “out of the ordinary.” This was, frankly, a little bit surprising, indecent, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=581&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Seven: Faith Based Hate</title>
		<link>http://maveth.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/faith-based-hate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christian response to hate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[god does not endorse hate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[god loves homosexuals and lesbians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Audience is important.  This topic, while floating on the periphery of my &#8220;soap-box zone,&#8221; demands that its audience be clearly articulated.  It is important that readers recognize that I am addressing professing Christians.  I am writing this post for those who proclaim the Lordship of Christ over their lives, for those that call Jesus &#8220;Master.&#8221;  Though, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=549&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Six: Some Questions About the Problem of Evil</title>
		<link>http://maveth.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/day-five-some-questions-about-the-problem-of-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, it is an old question.  It constitutes one of those objections to our experiences as human beings that require an answer form every generation of Christians.  In other words, there is more than one conceptual image at work.  Simultaneously, the “problem of evil” demonstrates what seems like inconsistencies in the truth claims inherent in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=534&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Five: A Day In The Life Of&#8230;Me</title>
		<link>http://maveth.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/day-five-a-day-in-the-life-of-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daily Blather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ordinarily, people would claim the beginning of their day actually starts with the events that follow sleep.  One goes to bed, one rests for a period (hopefully) of several hours, and then one wakes up in order to go about their day.  Given this hypothesis, my day started exactly twenty-two hours ago.  Every parent with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=502&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Four: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 1 &#8211; A Review and Reflection</title>
		<link>http://maveth.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/day-four-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-pt-1-a-review-and-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I promise to include only one spoiler in this review, and I&#8217;ll include it right in the beginning - *Spoiler Alert*- the book is still better than the movie.  Frankly, that&#8217;s saying something, because I loved this movie.  While I&#8217;m being frank, allow me also to say that I was nonplussed with many elements of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=472&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Three &#8211; A little fiction: part 1</title>
		<link>http://maveth.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/day-three-a-little-fiction-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This bit is a little longer to make up for yesterday.  It is a piece of fiction with which I am toying.  I&#8217;ll keep adding to it as inspiration hits.  Of primary interest to me, are comments regarding Ella&#8217;s accent.  I&#8217;m just not sure about &#8220;writing in an accent,&#8221; so tell me what you think. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=461&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two &#8211; On the Importance of Writing</title>
		<link>http://maveth.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/day-two-on-the-importance-of-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is little debate among academics that writing constitutes one of the most important skills in life.  Which is all fine and good, if you are an academic.  The real difficulty in proving the point seems to be felt most when trying to convince the lay person of the importance of writing.  The blogging community on the internet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=443&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day One: Ecumenism and the Burden of Theological Language</title>
		<link>http://maveth.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/day-one-ecumenism-and-the-burden-of-theological-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the process of discernment for ordination, I have been doing a lot of soul-searching.  I assume most people spend a better portion of their youth deciding what their lives will be about.  Interestingly, since a rather powerful encounter with Jesus at the altar of a youth camp, I have never questioned what my life was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=425&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Thousand Words, One Thousand Days</title>
		<link>http://maveth.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/one-thousand-words-one-thousand-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Wamsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting thought has struck me.  I have been watching and reading a lot of interesting pieces in the last several months that seem to address a common sensibility.  That sensibility being that you are only ever truly great at something, even if only within your own generation, once you have spent countless hours doing it.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maveth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8603797&amp;post=416&amp;subd=maveth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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