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		<title>Wear Your Diagnosis Lightly &#8211; It&#8217;s Not Really You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of us have “been diagnosed” with specific personality or mental conditions. I don&#8217;t formally have such a diagnosis (I&#8217;ve not yet seen anyone qualified to do it for me); but I&#8217;m sure there are several people around who&#8217;d be glad to offer suggestions! The thing I worry about is the effects I have seen such diagnoses have on people – the self-defining, self-shaping label it provides. It does affect one&#8217;s self-perception, expectations of what they can probably do, or not do, and how they are likely to behave. It really does, in my experience. So it narrows a person&#8217;s view of themselves and their world – and thus clearly restricts their potential. It also affects the perceptions of those close to them who know of the diagnosis. And it affects those nearby people in similar ways &#8211; perception of the person and expectations as to what they can, cannot or are likely or unlikely to do. That can all be pretty serious. Edwin Friedman, who was a pastor in Washington D.C., has some strong things to say along these lines. He did a lot of counseling work with parishioners as well as with other pastors and their families, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2132">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;With Malice Toward None&#8221; &#8211; A Necessary Standard!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In pretty much his last words to the American people, Abraham Lincoln began the wrap-up of his Second Inaugural Address with these famous, beautiful ideals: With malice toward none, with charity for all . . . And I think he really meant it. In a nation that was an ocean of anger and blaming and malice, he asked us to move forward without malice. &#8220;Malice: Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another&#8217;s misfortune.&#8221; [Wiktionary] It&#8217;s a very high aspiration &#8211; but also a very Biblical one. Jesus said: 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” (Mark 7) Paul wrote: 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices. (Col 3) &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2129">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When the Government &#8211; or Society &#8211; Is Against You: What Should Christians Do?</title>
		<link>http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2114</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2012 Bible Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some American Christians worry that we are being “persecuted” and that our “freedom of religion” is being infringed. That&#8217;s always true to some extent – and the idea is scary. How did Jesus deal with it? Jesus practiced non-violent non-cooperation toward evil persons. The results of his courage were both short-term and long-term, mostly good, some brutally bad. Jesus&#8217; immediate followers – the Christians of the first century, also faced lots of suffering. They suffered government harassment, even arrest and execution. They suffered from neighbors and fellow-citizens &#8211; the insulting or aggressive behavior of others around them in society. They suffered all the normal pains and sorrows of human life, of which there are many. They wrote about such tensions and how to think about and deal with them. And their numbers grew as people were attracted to their concrete love and obvious sincerity. Peter wrote, for example, about “fiery trials” – being accused unjustly, suffering horribly in spite of being good people. That&#8217;s happening to many in our world today, for many different reasons. The crucial thing here is to learn what approach WE should take when developments in the world around seem to threaten us in particular. And &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2114">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>PublicChristian.com is Coming Back to Life</title>
		<link>http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2111</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With lots going on in our culture &#8211; and in our politics - that begs for discussion among those interested in being Christ-followers, and among those concerned to understand what the Bible actually teaches on these various matters of current concern, it seems time to revive this blog. And there have even been requests to that effect! This post is to let you know we&#8217;re firing it up. You may subscribe to receive notifications of new posts here, which may amount to two or three a week. The subscribe / unsubscribe buttons are in the right column under the heading &#8220;Subscribe2&#8243;.]]></description>
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		<title>Limbaugh Has Judgment Problems?  That&#8217;s Dangerous to Us &#8211; and Not a New Discovery.</title>
		<link>http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2104</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the (verbal) behavior of Rush Limbaugh is a moral issue, and has a strong negative impact on the quality of citizenship in society. So, that needs to be said. This is my letter to the editor published in May 2006 in a small-town Nebraska newspaper. Some of my best friends are Limbaugh addicts (&#8220;dittoheads&#8221;). You don&#8217;t always agree with all your friends, right? I personally am sad to hear Rush is coming back to McCook airwaves. I fear he will undermine habits of good citizenship, and will damage families and spiritual lives. Unfortunately, he behaves like what Isaiah calls a &#8220;scoundrel.&#8221; &#8220;The scoundrel &#8230; makes up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.&#8221; (Isaiah 32) Of &#8220;six things the LORD hates&#8221; this man qualifies on at least four &#8211; &#8220;haughty eyes, a lying tongue &#8230; a false witness &#8230; and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.&#8221; (Proverbs 6) I predict Rush&#8217;s voice in McCook will only encourage any tendencies there already may be to self-centeredness, hot temper, self-righteousness, persistent anger, and dangerous misinformation in our area. We really don&#8217;t need that. I wonder why churches don&#8217;t &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2104">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Most Obvious Facts of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my ex-temp ramble in response to the line &#8220;momentum succumbs to entropy&#8221; seen elsewhere . . . + and you can say entropy succumbs to momentum. - but you have to have an energy source for momentum. + well, the plants and animals find energy to bloom and bear seeds and run and climb; so can we - but they all die + and more come - but the energy-supply machine (the sun) is running down + but it has produced unimaginably excessive energy for 1.3 kazillion years and will continue to do so &#8211; so far beyond my lifespan that I can go with what I&#8217;ve got without trying to manage that little problem with my even littler mind - but it sets the context of entropy and ultimate cessation of all light, motion, heat, energy. If that&#8217;s the ultimate context . . . + to assume that this is the ultimate context goes way beyond human mental or psychic ability, way beyond - but it is observable in the short run + so is the production and supply of energy, creativity, life, beauty, exuberance, action . . . - still, it all runs down + that&#8217;s at &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2083">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Problem &amp; Blessing: People Who Take the Bible Seriously (with 2 Rules of Interpretation)</title>
		<link>http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2066</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankie Schaeffer grew up in a modern, politically radical, Americanized &#8220;Christianity&#8221;. He is not pleased with what it teaches or how it operates. In a recent article he gives a fairly thorough explanation of his concerns and how they relate to current political personalities &#8211; e.g. Michelle Bachmann. I have to agree with much of what Schaeffer says. Here&#8217;s an example: America has a problem: It’s filled with people who take the Bible seriously. America has a blessing: It’s filled with people who take the Bible seriously. How does this blessing coexist with the curse derived from the same source: the Bible? The answer is that the Bible is a curse or a blessing depending on who is doing the interpreting. Sometimes belief in the Bible leads to building a hospital. Sometimes it leads to justifying perpetual war and empire building. Same book—different interpretation. I have a hermeneutical bias. I believe that if we take the whole Bible as it actually presents itself, we are going to be doing things comparable to &#8220;building a hospital&#8221;, NOT things like &#8220;justifying perpetual war and empire building&#8221; nor, I might add, promoting and defending greed as in practice the highest value. That is, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2066">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Covenant for Civility  (Sojourners)</title>
		<link>http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2058</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[You can sign this covenant online at the Sojourners site. I have added underlines and bolds to the version below.] How good and pleasant it is when the people of God live together in unity. -Psalm 133:1 As Christian pastors and leaders with diverse theological and political beliefs, we have come together to make this covenant with each other, and to commend it to the church, faith-based organizations, and individuals, so that together we can contribute to a more civil national discourse. The church in the United States can offer a message of hope and reconciliation to a nation that is deeply divided by political and cultural differences. Too often, however, we have reflected the political divisions of our culture rather than the unity we have in the body of Christ. We come together to urge those who claim the name of Christ to &#8220;put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you&#8221; (Ephesians 4:31-32). 1) We commit that our dialogue with each other will reflect the spirit of the Scriptures, where our posture &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2058">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Security &#8211; and Moral Bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2046</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[there is no way in which a country can satisfy the craving for absolute security &#8220;No way.&#8221; No way. As in not possible in this world. but it can easily bankrupt itself, morally and economically, in attempting to reach that illusory goal through arms alone. - President (&#38; General) Dwight D. Eisenhower In other words, you can&#8217;t buy enough guns (etc) to make yourself safe. But you can go completely nuts trying. Eisenhower quoted by Brian McLaren in Everything Must Change, p 167. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Heat Makes Things More Complicated &#8211; That&#8217;s One Reason Global Warming is Dangerous</title>
		<link>http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2023</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times this winter did you witness something like this: you&#8217;re watching the snow fall straight east instead of to the ground and someone says, &#8220;Wow, that&#8217;s a hot batch of global warming isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; The intention is to mock the idea that the global climate system is actually warming up &#8211; because look how COLD it is right now! But think a minute. If there has been heat added to the incredibly complex global weather system, what should we expect? Certainly not more uniformly balmy sunny days. Add heat into a complex and volatile system like earth&#8217;s weather system and you will get MORE volatility and unpredictability. And that will mean &#8211; all things considered &#8211; weather patterns becoming more erratic, highs tending higher, but lows sometimes reaching lower, storms tending to become more extreme, droughts becoming hotter, drier, and longer etc. And we are seeing all of that. We&#8217;re seeing ice cover melting in the Arctic and the Antarctic and glaciers melting all over the world. Let&#8217;s not kid ourselves with cheap thoughtless jokes about cold weather proving that there is no global warming. It&#8217;s evidence for just the opposite. This is a gigantic and deadly threat. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.publicchristian.com/?p=2023">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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