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		<title>Easter and Chocolate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year celebrate Jesus&#8217; resurrection with only the best chocolate made by child slave labor?  Disturbing&#8230; http://www.laborrights.org/stop-child-labor/cocoa-campaign http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_exploitation_in_the_chocolate_industry http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/news/international/chocolate_bittersweet.fortune/ or settle for slave free chocolate if you have to. http://www.serrv.org/Gourmet/ChocolateFood/Divine.aspx http://www.globalexchangestore.org/SearchResults.asp?Cat=38<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=291&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Till a tempting new partner do us part&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article from CNN on whether or not monogamy is realistic in our day and age. As Western society moves farther from its Judeo-Christian roots it will only become more confused about foundations for meaning, value, morals, ethics, and a vision for the good/virtuous life.  Christianity roots monogamous marriage relationships in a transcendent God who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=287&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Augustine, Original Sin, and Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Augustine argued that for one to be virtuous, his/her loves must be rightly ordered.  That is, one must not only love the right things, but in the correct order.  One may love (desire) good food, but if one loves it more than one&#8217;s children it becomes a vice.  One may love one&#8217;s children, but to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=285&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>consumerism pt. 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I jumped on YouTube and typed in &#8220;commercial.&#8221;  The video below popped up first. It seems to me that this commercial serves as an example of a pattern I&#8217;ve noticed throughout advertising today.  Advertisers often no long sell products and services, they now sell religion. What does this commercial sell?  It sells a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=281&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>consumerism pt. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many advertising messages are we exposed to on a daily basis?  500?  1000? Think about it, radio ads, TV ads, internet ads, t-shirts, bumper stickers, billboards&#8230; On the surface they all sell different products and services, but in reality they are ALL selling the ideology of Consumerism.  They sell us the idea that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=278&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>consumerism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there any bigger threat to the Church today than consumerism?  Is there any bigger threat to communities attempting to follow Jesus than consumerism?  I am beginning to believe no. I don&#8217;t mean small &#8220;c&#8221; consumerism, &#8220;I like to buy new shoes more often than I need to&#8221; consumerism. I mean big &#8220;C&#8221; Consumerism, consumerism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=276&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>reverse mortgages</title>
		<link>http://timknipp.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/reverse-mortgages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting conversation with a friend about reverse mortgages this past weekend. It seems to me that the idea of spending every possible dime one has access to before dying reeks of hopelessness and despair (I&#8217;m not addressing every instance of employing a reverse mortgage but rather its embrace at a popular level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=275&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>C.S. Lewis on old books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking a class in the history of Christian Spirituality.  Naturally we deal with much which has been written hundreds and even thousands of years ago.  The text for the course is &#8220;Thirsty for God&#8221; by Bradley Holt.  Speaking of reading old books he quotes Lewis who writes, &#8220;Every age has its own outlook. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=273&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>reading &#8220;Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work&#8221; by Eugene Peterson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m loving chapter 2.  In it he argues that Pastors are historians, they help be see the story they are in.  He points to the book of Ruth, this story of ordinary people living ordinary life, where God works in the background to bring redemption.  Its a small story, one might say.  And yet it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=271&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>theology</title>
		<link>http://timknipp.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/theology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to study theology is a bit like the mouse trying to study the Cat. -Bruce Hindmarsh, from lecture on friday<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timknipp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=516659&amp;post=269&amp;subd=timknipp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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