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		<title>On the Norway killer&#8217;s motive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am shocked and disheartened by the atrocious acts of violence in Norway.  While remaining in prayer for the victims and their families whose blood cries out from the ground to a global community and ultimately a God who hears them, I&#8217;m trying to make some sense of the conversations that are ensuing about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepotluckpair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6515892&amp;post=645&amp;subd=thepotluckpair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Meditation on Abraham and Isaac</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was adapted from a sermon I gave at Edgewater Presbyterian Church last Sunday. Genesis 22:1-14 On this week that the acclaimed actor Peter Falk passed away, I’m reminded of his narration of one of my favorite childhood films:  the Princess Bride.  Playing a rough around the edges grandpa who reads the fairy tale to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepotluckpair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6515892&amp;post=629&amp;subd=thepotluckpair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope beats Optimism:  Blogging Lasch&#8217;s True and Only Heaven</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Lasch (1932-1994) is perhaps one of the most prescient and perhaps undervalued social critics of recent history.  The True and Only Heaven’s still provocative conclusions strike at the heart of America’s current political gridlock and cultural anemia.  It puts flesh on the problems people across the political and social spectrum seem to suspect, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepotluckpair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6515892&amp;post=607&amp;subd=thepotluckpair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practice, Practice, Practice</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up playing the piano.  My instructor, Mrs. Oriente, gave me her own variation on that stock phrase every musician knows well:  Practice makes Perfect.   Adding a layer of challenge to those words, she would iterate often, &#8220;Perfect Practice makes Perfect&#8221;.  The point she tried to make was that one should take a practice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepotluckpair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6515892&amp;post=597&amp;subd=thepotluckpair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Justice</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the hours and days that have followed Bin Laden’s death, there has been no shortage of words or lack of conversation about the meaning of the event or exactly how it, if at all, it should be celebrated.  I must say the fact that we are even having a conversation about how to feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepotluckpair.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6515892&amp;post=592&amp;subd=thepotluckpair&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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