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		<title>For Mothers Day &#8211; Sometimes there isn&#8217;t even a phone call</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!&#8221;  Matthew &#8230; <a href="http://rericsawyer.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/for-mothers-day-sometimes-there-isnt-even-a-phone-call/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rericsawyer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=968980&#038;post=509&#038;subd=rericsawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A response to the &#8220;Unanswerable&#8221; Question from MoveOn.org</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my first, and probably last political post. I do have opinions, probably not hard to predict, but I believe I have very little to add to the discussion. I would not now, except that a  friend of mine &#8230; <a href="http://rericsawyer.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/a-response-to-the-unanswerable-question-from-moveon-org/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rericsawyer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=968980&#038;post=501&#038;subd=rericsawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the upper room, peace, and scars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting message this past week from the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, Bishop of Texas (Episcopal). Now, having participated (on the losing side) in some minor ways in the recent wars of the Episcopal Church, I am not automatically &#8230; <a href="http://rericsawyer.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/on-the-upper-room-peace-and-scars/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rericsawyer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=968980&#038;post=496&#038;subd=rericsawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postscript: it&#8217;s OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I am smarting a bit, but I have discovered another of the benefits of really embracing a doctrine of depravity – the idea contained in one of the earlier prayer books of my tradition that “…there is no health &#8230; <a href="http://rericsawyer.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/postscript-its-ok/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rericsawyer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=968980&#038;post=487&#038;subd=rericsawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation on Good Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been pondering a part of the creed little used in the branch of the Church I grew up in: “He descended into hell” particularly in connection with Jesus’ words from the cross “it is finished” and "Into thy hands I commend my spirit."

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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;to love what you command and desire what you promise&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our &#8230; <a href="http://rericsawyer.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/to-love-what-you-command-and-desire-what-you-promise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rericsawyer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=968980&#038;post=467&#038;subd=rericsawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;And the Word became flesh&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;The Gospel According to John&#8221; Chapter 1 (cont.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, &#8220;This was &#8230; <a href="http://rericsawyer.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/and-the-word-became-flesh-the-gospel-according-to-john-chapter-1-cont/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rericsawyer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=968980&#038;post=462&#038;subd=rericsawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In the Beginning&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;The Gospel According to John&#8221; Chapter 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R. Eric Sawyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case anyone should stumble upon these notes while trying to learn something about “The Gospel According to John”  and of the Christ John presents, I feel compelled to again offer an apology and an explanation. My posts on this &#8230; <a href="http://rericsawyer.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/in-the-beginning-the-gospel-according-to-john-chapter-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rericsawyer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=968980&#038;post=458&#038;subd=rericsawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Evolution of Adam&#8221; byPeter Enns: some early thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been very slowly reading through The Evolution of Adam  by Peter Enns. I am nowhere near the end, not even up to the meat of his topic, which I understand is to involve an examination of Pauline soteriology, how &#8230; <a href="http://rericsawyer.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/the-evolution-of-adam-bypeter-enns-some-early-thoughts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rericsawyer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=968980&#038;post=438&#038;subd=rericsawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cleansing of the Temple: The Gospel According to John, Chapter 2:13-17</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Zahl wrote once that the Holy Spirit interacting with mortal man is very analogous to the interaction between living magma and the environment at the surface. Magma, (Lava when it gets to the surface of the Earth) is about &#8230; <a href="http://rericsawyer.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/the-cleansing-of-the-temple-the-gospel-according-to-john-chapter-213-17/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rericsawyer.wordpress.com&#038;blog=968980&#038;post=431&#038;subd=rericsawyer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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