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		<title>Dialogue with McLaren: The Church Question (VI)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To state it negatively, most of our churches are not designed or equipped to promote and support the vision McLaren has outlined thus far in A New Kind of Christianity.]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue with McLaren: The Gospel Question (V)</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3114.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part Five of A New Kind of Christianity, Brian McLaren attempts to get at the heart of what "The Gospel" is all about.]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue with McLaren: The Jesus Question (IV)</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3088.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part Four of A New Kind of Christianity, Brian McLaren asks the question that is central to any branch of Christianity; namely, "Who is Jesus and what role does he play in the biblical narrative?"]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue with McLaren: The God Question (III)</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3057.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part Three of A New Kind of Christianity, Brian McLaren tackles the thorny issue of the fact that God is portrayed as vindictive, cruel, retaliatory and bloodthirsty in much of the Old Testament.]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue with McLaren: The Authority Question (II)</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/3026.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part Two of A New Kind of Christianity, Brian McLaren wrestles with how the Bible is authoritative for us today.]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue with McLaren: The Narrative Question (I)</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2984.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part One of A New Kind of Christianity, Brian McLaren contends that the six-line narrative we usually draw from the Bible is more a Greco-Roman story line than a true, biblical revelation.]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue with McLaren: Comparing Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2949.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Brian McLaren published his first book, "The Church on the Other Side" in 1998, I have followed his writings with keen interest.]]></description>
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		<title>Tolstoy Today</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2914.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One winter, a decade or so ago, I worked my way through Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel, "War and Peace."]]></description>
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		<title>When I Stop Singing</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2880.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever the words of "Awesome God" appear on the big screen during worship in the church where I am a member I stop singing.]]></description>
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		<title>Boomers Crossing the Line</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2850.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I turned 65. That in itself is not significant news. People turn 65 every day of every year.]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Dark the Night!</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2799.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days after Black Friday this year, I overheard a conversation. One woman was describing to another the tremendous experience she and her friends had had on a shopping trip to the United States to take in Black Friday.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith for All Seasons</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2693.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous article I attempted to connect the dots between the various political seasons that came with the year 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>The Seasons of 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2663.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring gives way to summer. Summer gives way to fall. Winter winds up the seasons and allows the cycle to start over again. It is impossible to think of one season without reference to all of them.]]></description>
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		<title>Embracing the Good News</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2639.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My goal in writing the last nine articles was to focus my understandings about the nature of the Good News proclaimed in the biblical text.]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting Paradigms</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2606.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am well aware that the major shift I have been calling for with respect to the notion of hell as a central Christian tenet is a difficult one for most believers to make.]]></description>
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		<title>Kingdom People in Mission</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2579.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2579.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first reactions people generally have when they hear about a gospel devoid of eternal damnation is that then there is no reason left to do mission in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Redemption of the Rest</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2523.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2523.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We turn our attention now to inquire about the fate of those who have not received Jesus as Savior nor walked in his ways.]]></description>
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		<title>Redemption of Believers</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2504.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once we catch a vision that the purpose of God is nothing short of cosmic redemption, we begin to see it everywhere in the biblical text.]]></description>
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		<title>Through a Glass, Darkly</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2475.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the Apostle Paul, we do well to acknowledge that when it comes to eternal matters we face various degrees of mystery.]]></description>
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		<title>Rebooting the Good News</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2443.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have noted in previous articles that in order to find a firm, biblical basis for church involvement in society we need to adopt a holistic gospel of the Kingdom of God, abandon the notion of a "great escape" from this world, and catch a vision of the cosmic redemption that permeates the teaching of the New Testament.]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmic Redemption</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2361.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following in the footsteps of N.T. Wright, I would like to suggest that it is most appropriate in Biblical Theology to look first at what the Bible has to say about cosmic redemption before contemplating the ultimate destiny of individuals.]]></description>
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		<title>Joy to the World</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2329.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous article, Church on Main, I suggested that the church should be seen and heard on Main Street; that is, the church needs to be engaged with the world in which it lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Church on Main</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2297.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In mid-June of this year I spent about 20 hours on Main Street in Steinbach at a booth set up by the South Eastman Transition Initiative during the local Summer in the City event.]]></description>
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		<title>First Things First</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2260.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Putting "first things first" is an idea that sounds good. It’s the kind of notion that fits well into a homily given at a youth meeting or an address at graduation.]]></description>
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		<title>Passionate Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2228.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to me that persons living with a healthy balance of passion and wisdom are fortunate indeed.]]></description>
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		<title>Inequality Not Sustainable</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2192.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2192.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 13:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 Forbes billionaire list breaks all records: 1,210 billionaires with a combined worth of $4.5 trillion U.S.]]></description>
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		<title>Available Grace</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2154.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 12:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question that haunted me as a teenager was how available the grace of God was to me.]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for 21st Century Discipleship</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2137.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of impediments to discipleship rooted in fundamentalist theologies within evangelicalism there are many reasons to be encouraged.]]></description>
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		<title>Impediments to Modern Discipleship</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2120.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I came across two gentlemen discussing faith matters.]]></description>
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		<title>Anabaptist Connections</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2088.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, my wife Ruth and I had the amazing opportunity to make some Anabaptist connections in Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>Biblical Preaching</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2052.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2052.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my books, Myron Augsburger is perhaps one of the best preachers I have ever heard.]]></description>
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		<title>From Word to Life</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2002.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/2002.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the devil’s finest pieces of work is getting people to spend three nights a week in Bible studies. (Subversive Spirituality, by Eugene Peterson, p. 207)]]></description>
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		<title>Hammers and Nails</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1990.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1990.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a small time carpenter of sorts. Some of the happiest and most relaxing moments in my life are spent in my little workshop at the end of the entrance hallway of our house.]]></description>
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		<title>It All Adds Up</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1859.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that we are conditioned by our culture to live according to sensibilities that lie close to the surface.]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Daddy&#8217;s Heart</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1838.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1838.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Ruth and I hosted a Spanish pastor couple in our home for three days, whom I will call Pablo and Maria.]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary Poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1816.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few decades I have frequently heard the lament that the church needs renewal.]]></description>
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		<title>Scurrying Through Life</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1800.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1800.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I look around at people in my world I often get the sense that they are scurrying through life.]]></description>
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		<title>Attention Deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1753.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1753.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paying attention to what is really going on around you is dangerous. That is particularly so if you dare to alert others to what you are seeing.]]></description>
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		<title>Funeral Foibles</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1724.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1724.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that I spend more time in funeral parlors and at funeral services than I used to. It’s part of the aging process, they tell me.]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1702.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1702.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written about the problem of pain and suffering. Less has been written about the problem of fun.]]></description>
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		<title>Saved by His Life</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1670.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1670.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been customary for so long now to see the “cross” as the central symbol of Christianity that we tend to assume it has always been that way.]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical Trajectories</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1650.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1650.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is natural to feel Christ’s liberation reaching into every kind of bondage, and to want to act in accordance with that radical shift.]]></description>
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		<title>Solitary Confinement</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1614.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1614.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am old enough to remember the contours of community. Many of my younger friends don’t have a clue.]]></description>
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		<title>Make No Mistake</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1594.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1594.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine a world in which it would simply be taken for granted that we all make mistakes?]]></description>
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		<title>Empty Spaces</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1571.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an age in which North Americans are by far the loneliest people in the world, many of us naturally seek an antidote to our loneliness by getting closer to others.]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity on Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1542.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1542.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I am not a citizen of the United States of America, it could be argued that I have no business commenting on American culture, let alone American versions of Christianity.]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Derailed</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1486.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1486.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a Hebrew scholar. But I have studied enough Hebrew to know that to the modern mind it is frustratingly open, allowing for various levels of meaning and interpretation.]]></description>
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		<title>Optional Discipleship</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1461.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1461.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is somewhat disconcerting to notice that in many Christian circles today the concept of discipleship, or following Jesus, is almost entirely divorced from the idea of being a Christian.]]></description>
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		<title>Ordinary, Decent Eggs</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1427.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I meet people regularly who just want to be ordinary, decent eggs. What’s wrong with just remaining who I am right now? they ask.]]></description>
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		<title>Generosity without Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/1405.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Heppner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expressing gratitude is a good thing. Saying “thank you”, for example, to someone who has helped you out greases the wheel of human relationships, especially when it is said honestly and sincerely.]]></description>
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