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		<title>More on Ezra and the Divorce Decree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in August I wrote some observations and concerns about Ezra&#8217;s decree that the people of Israel put away their foreign wives.
Today, while working on a book review, I read an article about that same passage and how it relates to modern African-American readers. The article, &#8220;Reflections in an Interethnic/racial Era on Interethnic/racial Marriage in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2010/01/23/more-on-ezra-and-the-divorce-decree/</link>
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		<title>The 9th Day of Christmas &#8212; What Am I Supposed to Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of my count, today (2 Jan.) is the 9th day of Christmas. So there are still (counting today) four days left in the Christmas season.
The season is so odd to me. We spend so much time and energy preparing for it (during Advent), that once the season actually arrives, I&#8217;m not clear what we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2010/01/02/the-9th-day-of-christmas-what-am-i-supposed-to-do/</link>
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		<title>Wait &#8212; whose advent are we celebrating????</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My dad recently noticed that one of the Christmas albums we listen to every year has a bit of a &#8220;mixed-message&#8221; (his term&#8211;and what an understatement!). One of the lyrics goes:
Let us thank the Lord above that Santa Claus is coming tonight!
?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
As one of my online colleagues put it, non-believers have taken the holiday and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2009/12/20/wait-whose-advent-are-we-celebrating/</link>
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		<title>Is this symbolic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was driving to my parent&#8217;s house, and I got lost &#8212; 60 mile detour&#8230;.
I fear this resembles my spiritual life of late&#8230;.
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		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2009/12/17/is-this-symbolic/</link>
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		<title>The Paradox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The thing I&#8217;ve been having trouble with lately is realizing that there is no contradiction between the Cosmic God and the Personal God.
It&#8217;s not a problem for God to keep his eye on 6 billion individuals and 13.5+billion light-years of space. It&#8217;s only a problem to my limited mind.
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		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2009/12/11/the-paradox/</link>
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		<title>What does God require of us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Ezekiel 34 &#8212; a good lesson on what we should be doing as priests of the Lord Most High:
Thus says the Lord God:
&#8220;Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2009/12/02/what-does-god-require-of-us/</link>
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		<title>The God who watches the sparrow also watches&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the electron and the pulsar.
As I wrestle with the vastness of the universe (Pascal&#8217;s abyss) and what that means about our place in it, this thought has become part of my statement of faith. For a God who can follow the electron in its path is surely able to notice us here on tiny planet&#8230;.
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		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2009/11/26/the-god-who-watches-the-sparrow-also-watches/</link>
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		<title>News items I want to see more of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hmm, didn&#8217;t Jesus have a parable about this kind of situation?
Judge blasts bad bank, erases 525G debt - NYPOST.com.
Suffolk Judge Jeffrey Spinner wiped out $525,000 in mortgage payments demanded by a California bank, blasting its &#8220;harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive&#8221; acts.
The bombshell decision leaves Diane Yano-Horoski and her husband, Greg Horoski, owing absolutely no money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2009/11/25/news-items-i-want-to-see-more-of/</link>
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		<title>Who is Sodom?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ezekiel 16.49:
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Pride, excess, prosperity, but no charity.
How many of us does that describe?

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		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2009/11/23/who-is-sodom/</link>
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		<title>and then I remembered why&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;I found Christ and left the GOP: because they lack charity.
And if we have not charity&#8230;.
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		<link>http://non-meta-stephen.com/blog/2009/11/16/and-then-i-remembered-why/</link>
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