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		<title>Doing the right thing for the (sort of) wrong reason</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2012/05/19/doing-the-right-thing-for-the-sort-of-wrong-reason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 14:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Character]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently watched a video of a fellow talking to a group of young women about whether or not they should wear bikinis. You shouldn&#8217;t, he explained, because it makes men objectify you. He even cited several neurological studies showing that male brains literally process images of bikini-clad women as if they were things, rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtue, vice, and double negatives</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2012/04/19/virtue-vice-and-double-negatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. Christian virtue offers just one example of the mysterious coexistence of divine sovereignty with human freedom and responsibility. Even for those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Jesus have sinned?</title>
		<link>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2012/02/06/could-jesus-have-sinned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2012/02/06/could-jesus-have-sinned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vogel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Omnipotence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A discussion after church today raised the question whether the possibility of sin entailed, in itself and apart from any actual evil, a diminution of goodness. The question led me to suggest that Jesus could have sinned (suggesting, if true, that perfection is not incompatible with the possibility of sin), a position which seemed in [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/2012/01/14/technology-and-the-lure-of-the-easy/#comments</comments>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingtheanswer.org/blog/?p=722</guid>
		<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>
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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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