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		<title>I moved to new online digs! New workshops now available.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2020 17:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[I pleased to announce my new website is launched: www.spiritualbrewpub.com It has fresh content that helps people through the spiritual deconstruction and reconstruction process. I&#8217;m also starting Freedom Workshops, both online and eventually in-person, that have specific content to help church burnouts and spiritual refugees. Visit my new online digs and check out my podcast, [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I pleased to announce my new website is launched: www.spiritualbrewpub.com It has fresh content that helps people through the spiritual deconstruction and reconstruction process. I&#8217;m also starting Freedom Workshops, both online and eventually in-person, that have specific content to help church burnouts and spiritual refugees. Visit my new online digs and check out my podcast, [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>The Historical Roots and Impact of Universalsim</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 21:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[&#160; I spoke at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Christian Universalist Association, in Dallas, Texas on October 22, 2017. Learn more about the roots and impact of Universalism and the historical fallacy of the Doctrine of Hell. I welcome any comments or questions. Thanks goes to Rich Koster, Mary Keller, and Charles Slagle for [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#160; I spoke at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Christian Universalist Association, in Dallas, Texas on October 22, 2017. Learn more about the roots and impact of Universalism and the historical fallacy of the Doctrine of Hell. I welcome any comments or questions. Thanks goes to Rich Koster, Mary Keller, and Charles Slagle for [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Wild Goose Festival Paves a Better Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 18:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Ever feel religious alienation? There&#8217;s a better way. I&#8217;m honored to be invited to be a speaker at this year&#8217;s Wild Goose Festival &#8211; the intersection of spirituality, art, music, and social justice. The open-minded, celebratory atmosphere of speakers, storytellers, musicians, artists, and wayfarers who embody the grand themes of inclusive love, welcome honesty, social [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ever feel religious alienation? There&#8217;s a better way. I&#8217;m honored to be invited to be a speaker at this year&#8217;s Wild Goose Festival &#8211; the intersection of spirituality, art, music, and social justice. The open-minded, celebratory atmosphere of speakers, storytellers, musicians, artists, and wayfarers who embody the grand themes of inclusive love, welcome honesty, social [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>How Western Theology Screwed Up the Jesus Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2016 20:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[When someone studies the history of Christianity from its inception and really tries to be objective about it, he or she will inevitably discover how screwed up and tainted the Jesus Story has become over the centuries. One way is how his teachings have been misconstrued as a formula for salvation. In the grocery store [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When someone studies the history of Christianity from its inception and really tries to be objective about it, he or she will inevitably discover how screwed up and tainted the Jesus Story has become over the centuries. One way is how his teachings have been misconstrued as a formula for salvation. In the grocery store [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Disarming Evil With Love and Wine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2016 23:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[When we hold a worldview that people are inherently bad and need law and order to suppress that badness, we will tend to react to hostility with either judgmental retaliation or defense. But if we believe people are not inherently bad; that they are only lost when they go down an evil path, our reaction [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When we hold a worldview that people are inherently bad and need law and order to suppress that badness, we will tend to react to hostility with either judgmental retaliation or defense. But if we believe people are not inherently bad; that they are only lost when they go down an evil path, our reaction [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>3 Big Ideas of New Book &#8220;Craft Brewed Jesus&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[How History We Never Knew Taps a Spirituality We Really Need My next book is in the hands of the publisher! Wipf and Stock Publishing in Eugene, Oregon is publishing it in April or May 2016. Besides the craft beer theme (just as small, independent craft breweries using historical recipes have rethought corporate-brewed beer, pub [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[How History We Never Knew Taps a Spirituality We Really Need My next book is in the hands of the publisher! Wipf and Stock Publishing in Eugene, Oregon is publishing it in April or May 2016. Besides the craft beer theme (just as small, independent craft breweries using historical recipes have rethought corporate-brewed beer, pub [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>3 Peaceful Ways to Fight the Ideological War with ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Regrettably, in the aftermath of ISIS’s inexcusable attacks on innocent people in Paris, amidst admirable calls for support and assistance for victims and their families and the people of France, conservative policymakers are also calling for a response that plays right into the hands of radical Jihadists. Twenty-six U.S. governors don’t want Syrian refugees in [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Regrettably, in the aftermath of ISIS’s inexcusable attacks on innocent people in Paris, amidst admirable calls for support and assistance for victims and their families and the people of France, conservative policymakers are also calling for a response that plays right into the hands of radical Jihadists. Twenty-six U.S. governors don’t want Syrian refugees in [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>The Scourge of Black and White Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[I often talk about the dangers of black-and-white thinking I encountered in my evangelical past. American conservative religion puts things in nice, neat boxes, with defined boundaries. The Bible is inerrant, they claim. If it wasn’t, it couldn’t be trusted at all (a strange concept considering no one claims that about any historical document). People [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I often talk about the dangers of black-and-white thinking I encountered in my evangelical past. American conservative religion puts things in nice, neat boxes, with defined boundaries. The Bible is inerrant, they claim. If it wasn’t, it couldn’t be trusted at all (a strange concept considering no one claims that about any historical document). People [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>5 Facts to Brighten Your Worldview</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2015 03:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Yes, there are pressing problems in the world this very day: A refugee crisis in Europe, a war-torn Syria, and grinding global poverty, to name a few. But according to Global Health expert and statistician, Hans Rosling, focusing on all the bad news in the media masks the real gains our world has achieved. I&#8217;m [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yes, there are pressing problems in the world this very day: A refugee crisis in Europe, a war-torn Syria, and grinding global poverty, to name a few. But according to Global Health expert and statistician, Hans Rosling, focusing on all the bad news in the media masks the real gains our world has achieved. I&#8217;m [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>3 Ways Atheists are Good for Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2015 19:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[To most people, the title of this blog seems contradictory. Aren’t atheists rebelling against God and leading people astray? Well, for the most part, no. One of our discoveries in our group’s research is that most atheists (or their cousins, agnostics) are good for people of faith because their honesty keeps us honest. They can [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[To most people, the title of this blog seems contradictory. Aren’t atheists rebelling against God and leading people astray? Well, for the most part, no. One of our discoveries in our group’s research is that most atheists (or their cousins, agnostics) are good for people of faith because their honesty keeps us honest. They can [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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