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		<title>Technology and the lure of the easy</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2012/01/14/technology-and-the-lure-of-the-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the moment of the Fall, when the forbidden fruit promised an earlier and easier entrance into bliss, growth, and knowledge, one of Satan&#8217;s favorite strategies has been to take some promised good and offer his own version; easier, simpler, and always, in retrospect, somehow diminished and corrupted. The golden calf offered Israel a safer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;and we saw his glory&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/12/25/and-we-saw-his-glory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/12/25/and-we-saw-his-glory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellanea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relativism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I teach about religious relativism, I like to summarize it with a bumper sticker I saw a few years ago. The colorful plastic declared, &#8220;God is too big to fit in any one religion.&#8221; I tell students that&#8217;s very nearly true. History is littered with the crumbling remains of great religions built and abandoned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The right way to hate, and the problem with hipsters</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/11/25/the-right-way-to-hate-and-the-problem-with-hipsters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/11/25/the-right-way-to-hate-and-the-problem-with-hipsters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hipsters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hipster&#8221; is a hard word to define, but a good approximation might run something like this: &#8220;An individual whose life serves as a billboard advertising self-aware distaste for the often crude and sometimes contemptible patterns of modern American life.&#8221; Coming largely from the middle and upper classes, the hipster knows well the vulgar, unaware consumerism that characterizes his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks for nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/11/24/thanks-for-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/11/24/thanks-for-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G.K. Chesterton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodicy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/?p=694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Thanksgiving, so you&#8217;ve probably been thinking more than usual about the things you have to be thankful for. Most of our lists will have roughly the same shape: gratitude for life and salvation, for friends and family, for work and leisure time, for troubles lifted and prayers answered. We&#8217;ll laugh and nod as we consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching, and searching, for the perfect match</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/10/23/searching-and-searching-for-the-perfect-match/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/10/23/searching-and-searching-for-the-perfect-match/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/?p=674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often someone writes an article about the plight of singles in America. It seems everyone wants to be married; they just don&#8217;t want to be married to anyone they know. It&#8217;s interesting to hear the issue discussed in both Christian and secular circles. While the specific diagnoses and proposed solutions differ, there does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good and bad from the same clay</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/10/22/good-and-bad-from-the-same-clay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/10/22/good-and-bad-from-the-same-clay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/?p=656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Simeon and Levi are brothers; Their swords are implements of violence. Let my soul not enter into their council; Let not my glory be united with their assembly; Because in their anger they slew men, And in their self-will they lamed oxen. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity and epistemic certainty</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/10/04/christianity-and-epistemic-certainty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/10/04/christianity-and-epistemic-certainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doctrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/?p=643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I believe everything I believe is true&#8221;: It&#8217;s an equivocal assertion, obviously true in one sense while obviously foolish and hubristic in another. While talking it over with a group of students, I was struck by the way in which unraveling the two possible meanings of this statement brings us to the heart of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same as it ever was</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/09/27/same-as-it-ever-was/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/09/27/same-as-it-ever-was/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecclesiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanctification]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/?p=625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a commonplace among conservative evangelicals to bemoan the state of the church at large&#8212;and certainly there is much to criticize: failures of evangelism and discipleship, enthusiasm for compromise (except on unimportant issues), doctrinal error, lack of commitment, lack of faith, lack of love. With so many easy targets, it is easy to dwell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The logic of faith</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/05/15/the-logic-of-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/05/15/the-logic-of-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 19:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reason]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/?p=589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[God uses faith &#8220;to shake us out of our logical thinking,&#8221; declared the pastor at a local church I visited a few weeks ago. I recently heard another pastor explain that we can only grow in our faith if we stop listening to our reason: either we listen to our reason or we listen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intentionally elusive truth</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/05/13/intentionally-elusive-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2011/05/13/intentionally-elusive-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 04:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doctrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/?p=592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Commenting on the process of inspiration by which the Bible came together, C.S. Lewis writes in Reflections on the Psalms, To a human mind this working-up (in a sense imperfectly), this sublimation (incomplete) of human material, seems, no doubt, an untidy and leaky vehicle. We might have expected, we may think we should have preferred, [...]]]></description>
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