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	<title>Perceptions from a Pewboy</title>
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	<description>A Cyberspatial Intersection of Culture and Cross-Carrying</description>
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		<title>Annual Conference and Downtown Owl</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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In about a month, a couple thousand United Methodist laity and clergy will gather on the beautiful campus of Grove City College for an important time that we call “Annual Conference.”  We will sing and worship together.  We will honor retiring pastors and ordain some new ones.  We will study Scripture and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predestination, &#8220;Freed&#8221; Will, and the Mystery of Sovereignty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Her name is Emily.  She is a college student; a gifted singer/songwriter; a joyful and winsome participant in the pilgrimage; and a faithful follower of Jesus.  She is also my friend.
Recently, Emily e-mailed me for the purpose of picking my brain (and sharing her own thoughts) on the issues of predestination, God’s sovereignty, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church, the Government, and the Covenant of Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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These are hard and important days, friends—days in which matters of love and covenant commingle with issues of legislation and judicial parlance; days in which diverse people unified by a deep faith attempt to find their way into the synergy between the cry for justice and equality and the cry for holiness and biblical integrity; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Wear the Ashes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday]]></category>

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On Wednesday, February 13th—Ash Wednesday—millions of men, women, children, and youth will participate in what is surely one of the most peculiar practices of the Christian tradition.  One by one, they will willingly receive the imposition of ashes, a cross-shaped smudge on an otherwise ruddy forehead.
What an odd thing to do!  On all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gun Control, the Church, and the Sanctification of Individual Perspectives</title>
		<link>http://www.ericpark.org/?p=335</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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As a follower of Jesus, I am often far less interested in the particular position that one holds on an issue than I am in how one arrived at that position and, even more important, how one engages with both those who hold a similar viewpoint and those who approach the issue with different convictions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God and Newtown</title>
		<link>http://www.ericpark.org/?p=334</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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(Three years ago, in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, I wrote a post in which I explored God’s relationship to human suffering.  I have re-worked, re-crafted, and re-written that post in response to the recent shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.  I hope that this is helpful for those of you who choose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Aftermath of Unthinkable Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://www.ericpark.org/?p=333</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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The following is an e-mail that I sent out to as many clergy on the Washington District as I could on the Saturday morning after Friday&#8217;s horrific tragedy in Connecticut.  I share it on this blog for two reasons:  First, because there are some clergy on the district who are currently having e-mail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Place for Misfit Toys</title>
		<link>http://www.ericpark.org/?p=332</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Advent]]></category>

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In the animated Christmas classic, &#8220;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,&#8221; the viewing audience is introduced to the Island of Misfit Toys.  The toys living on this island are ostracized from the other toys in the world because they are functionally or cosmetically flawed.  On this island, for example, there lives a squirt gun that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Eucharistically in a Fast-Food Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.ericpark.org/?p=329</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sacramental Theology]]></category>

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On the eve of World Communion Sunday, I find myself reflecting on what it means to live eucharistically instead of settling for what might be described as spiritual fast-food.  
In my own discipleship, I must confess that, in the hyperactivity of the daily journey, I too often settle for the fast-food of a Facebook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Discipleship and Patriotism</title>
		<link>http://www.ericpark.org/?p=328</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Would you describe yourself as patriotic?
The word “patriot” is a derivative of a Greek word that essentially means “of one’s fathers” (as in “forefathers”).  In a more general sense, the Greek word from which we derive the word “patriotic” means “relating closely to those of one’s country.”
Based upon this foundational etymology, I feel very [...]]]></description>
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