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	<title>credo quia absurdem est</title>
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		<title>Shouting into the vacuum has gotten me the attention I deserve.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t read Slate&#8217;s Dear Prudence column, you should.  However, please take a minute to read this week&#8217;s, especially the second letter from &#8220;Church Newbies&#8221;.

Something about her advice seemed right, but not right.  I sent a reply, and with her permission I&#8217;m posting here the exchange.
Dear Prudence,
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		<title>Religious debate in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, check this out.

At first, I thought this was pretty funny.  Then I realized this is the level of debate.  One side gets hung up on an irrelevant point of doctrine (how does it help you be a better disciple if you believe that dogs don&#8217;t have souls?), and the other responds by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absurdemest.wordpress.com&blog=3571404&post=27&subd=absurdemest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little help from my friends.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, all.  I wrote this update of everyone&#8217;s favorite Covenant Prayer in the Wesleyan Tradition to use in worship Sunday.  I thought I&#8217;d run it by you.

A New Covenant Prayer in the Wesleyan Tradition
	We are no longer our own, but yours.  Put us to your work, place us among your children.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absurdemest.wordpress.com&blog=3571404&post=23&subd=absurdemest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Howdy do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, humans.  I am finally settled in and feeling good.  I&#8217;m hoping we&#8217;re here for a while.  Things feel pretty good.  I&#8217;ll be a little more attentive to my blog and Facebook and all that now, because we finally got internet.  We had to go with satellite, but it&#8217;s not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absurdemest.wordpress.com&blog=3571404&post=20&subd=absurdemest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re moving to Pinkstaff!  Wait, where?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, at long last, the details of the move.  I will be appointed as the pastor of the Pinkstaff/Birds charge of the Illinois Great Rivers Conference of the United Methodist Church beginning July 1, 2008.  Pinkstaff worships fifty or sixty on a Sunday, but they have a membership of fifty or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absurdemest.wordpress.com&blog=3571404&post=19&subd=absurdemest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confuzzelpation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone reading this is well appraised of my whining about, er, issues going on at church.  After the ad council meeting I wrote about last week, the DS got a couple calls saying that there would be nine people leaving the church if he didn&#8217;t move me immediately.  In prayer and discussion with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absurdemest.wordpress.com&blog=3571404&post=18&subd=absurdemest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little part of me died today.  So pathetic.  Feel sorry for me.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that title was dramatic, but it&#8217;s apt.  I guess it&#8217;s over.  Today, after church, I was ambushed at an ad council meeting.  The main concern was that I am refusing to allow the previous pastor come back to do a wedding.  I stressed I would be happy to allow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absurdemest.wordpress.com&blog=3571404&post=16&subd=absurdemest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joshua&#8217;s Pretty Good Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 21:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an awesome day!
It was international Secure your ID Day, and we spent the morning at Misty’s Better Business Bureau’s parking lot handing out goody bags and taking people’s personal documents to be shredded by a real pro who looked surprisingly like Meat Loaf.  (The singer, not the food stuff.)

Speaking of surprising look-a-likes, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absurdemest.wordpress.com&blog=3571404&post=15&subd=absurdemest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Linkies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 20:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really don&#8217;t want this blog to just have a bunch of links to stuff I think is neat, but this is one of the cleverest contests I&#8217;ve seen in a while.  I&#8217;ve even submitted an entry.  Wish me luck!

Also, this is pretty cool.  I&#8217;m no real scholar, but I&#8217;m married to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absurdemest.wordpress.com&blog=3571404&post=14&subd=absurdemest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing my boundaries</title>
		<link>http://absurdemest.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/pushing-my-boundaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I participated in something new last night.

Misty and I attended a live broadcast of This American Life.  It was the first time they had ever done anything like that.  Ira Glass was in New York, on stage, and the show was broadcast using the same technology the Met uses to broadcast its performances. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absurdemest.wordpress.com&blog=3571404&post=13&subd=absurdemest&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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