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    <subtitle>Thoughts on spirituality, books, and other random things.</subtitle>  
    
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        <title>Why is Christianity declining?</title>   
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   I follow the Christian Post on Twitter because I like to keep up with the ideas and thinking of many Christians. Today they tweeted the following:    I retweeted the following:    The lack of simplicity is due to Christianity essentially being a r...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Lots of work</title>   
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        <published>2009-11-23T01:50:17Z</published>
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          The amount of work in graduate school is shocking. I fancied myself as a seasoned academician and the shear volume of reading and writing has taken me by surprise. My blogging and extracurricular reading life ground to a halt. My classes end in e...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>QotD: Best-Seller</title>   
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        <published>2009-10-19T02:39:25Z</published>
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          If you were going to write a book, what would you write about?  I would write about how viewing religions as divine languages can be helpful for people without developed spiritual frameworks. It would be an attempt to show people that it is okay ...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <published>2009-10-11T17:27:27Z</published>
        <updated>2009-10-16T06:45:30Z</updated>
    
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         Why do we use our beliefs to excuse bad behavior instead of as inspiration to do better? Not all people make this choice. For those that do, I believe it has a lot to do with fear of what is within their own being. Rather than look inward and take...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>QotD: TAG, You&#39;re It!</title>   
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        <published>2009-10-03T13:21:10Z</published>
        <updated>2009-10-03T13:21:10Z</updated>
    
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    What do your Vox tags say about you? (Add tags to the end of your Vox blog address, and have a look.) Submitted by Jack Yan.  Judging by the Larger Words = More Tagged formula, a few things can be deduced from my tag cloud.    I like to answer th...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>QotD: My Best Purchase Ever</title>   
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        <published>2009-09-27T13:49:42Z</published>
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          What is the best purchase you&#39;ve ever made? I would say all of the education I have purchased (and still paying for) so far in my life would qualify as the best purchase I have ever made. Not only does this include my current enrollment, but this...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>QotD: If I Woke Up All-Powerful...</title>   
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        <published>2009-09-20T13:25:58Z</published>
        <updated>2009-09-20T13:28:48Z</updated>
    
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          If you woke up one morning and realized you were all-powerful, what is the first thing you would do? Submitted by loveless.    Every morning that I wake up, I realize that I am all-powerful. This power is not the ability to do anything I can imag...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <published>2009-09-15T21:30:09Z</published>
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   I&#39;m having a hard time with this whole Patrick Swayze thing. I forgot he was a singer.        <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>QotD: My Dream Job</title>   
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        <published>2009-09-15T03:05:09Z</published>
        <updated>2009-09-15T03:05:09Z</updated>
    
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          What is your dream job? Do you think you’ll ever have it? Sponsored by Monster.I know I am on the right path (holistic medicine) when I open my textbooks and see all of the writers and thinkers I read on a regular basis.   Parker Palmer Karen Arm...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>QotD: The Scary Thing about Being a Grown-Up...</title>   
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        <published>2009-09-07T03:12:17Z</published>
        <updated>2009-09-07T03:51:38Z</updated>
    
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