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		<title>I am a dinosaur.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep.  Internet Monk was right: the end of evangelicalism as we know it.  It&#8217;s happening &#8212; at least the beginnings of an implosion.  According to Frank Viola, &#8220;the center of evangelicalism is collapsing.&#8221;  Collapsing.  Gone the way of civil discourse and the American attention span. Apparently, evangelicals are so last century. So what happened?  Apparently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=439&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some early Christmas joy!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;re looking for ways to &#8220;de-commercialize&#8221; a sacred holiday, here&#8217;s a great idea from our nephews in Sarasota, Florida: use the tradition of season&#8217;s greetings to highlight the needs of others, and also to help alleviate their suffering.  Tyler and Ryan designed holiday cards to sell to friends and family, and they&#8217;re donating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=425&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uncle John</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the benefits of having a son in seminary (who lives with you, and maybe I should blog about THAT soon&#8230;) is that really delicious looking books are lying around your house, and the stock rotates regularly.  Now for a bibliophile like me, this is sensory overload, and it is amazing I am getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=388&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New wonderful recipe site for me,  Skinny Crock Pot, furnished this recipe.  She took an Epicurious recipe and changed it to make it healthy and still delicious (which is what she does), with a gajillion fewer calories.  You can find the recipe here.  Basically it&#8217;s a little pile of cubed whole grain bread (mine was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=379&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you have shade and deer, a CSA is the next best thing.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[And my CSA is organic, which is more the point. I can get farmstand produce everywhere, but this farm (Poplar Ridge) grows interesting varieties, without any pesticides or other (synthetic) chemical additives. (Yes, I know, everything is a chemical. You know what I mean.) Today&#8217;s bounty was just so handsome, I thought I&#8217;d share a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=346&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some questions about Platt&#8217;s Radical</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First let me say, I read this FAST (book club night was upon me!) so my reading didn&#8217;t come with a lot of time to ruminate along the way.  That means I got a full overall impression quickly, and then BAM it was off to the book club discussion.  (Unfortunately, this timing led to my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=353&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foster&#8217;s Celebration of Discipline: on Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing in the Disciplines/Foster series &#8211; Chapter 3, Prayer Overall, Foster&#8217;s chapter seems to be promoting prayer not as an isolated activity, but as a way of life, or perhaps as life itself. The &#8220;heroes of prayer&#8221; he describes would probably all find it unthinkable to pass a day without talking with the Lord, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=344&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Foster&#8217;s Celebration of Discipline: Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foster emphasizes &#8212; and most of the other sources I&#8217;ve been reading keep repeating &#8212; that the whole point of meditation is greater obedience.  If meditation does not lead to more profound devotion to Christ and his work, more love for others, more service and humility, then it is an empty pursuit, or, even worse, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=331&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Foster&#8217;s Celebration of Discipline: Disciplines as the Door to Liberation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Chapter-by-chapter of Celebration of Discipline.) Though some of the wordings Foster chooses in this chapter rub me a bit the wrong way, I have a hard time not agreeing with most of what Foster is laying out about our common predicaments with the disciplines. From the first line, &#8220;Superficiality is the curse of our age,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=325&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Foster&#8217;s class Celebration of Discipline</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m realizing that the brisk pace of the online book club I&#8217;m running is keeping me from my main blog, and since that book club blog is now private, and since my entries can communicate and provoke discussion without my reader(s) tracking along in that book&#8230; why not do double duty with those blog entries?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wkshank.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3033905&amp;post=312&amp;subd=wkshank&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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