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	<description>Reflections Of One Not At Home In This World</description>
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		<title>Not a Christian Nation</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/05/06/not-a-christian-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 01:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dscipleship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I support the National Day of Prayer.  It&#8217;s not unconstitutional; there is no imposition; one can pray to Whomever, whomever (only my God gets the capital&#8211;that&#8217;s how it works on my blog), or whatever they want, or to no one or nothing.  The recent court decision declaring that it violates the Constitution is nonsense, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greeks R Us</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/05/06/greeks-r-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 01:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[entitlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers' unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several days there have been violent protest in Greece, including several deaths, over the spending cuts the government is proposing.   From &#8220;The Wall Street Journal:&#8221; The Greeks are giving the world a good taste of their modern politics. Periclean democracy, meet Athenian mob rule: Tens of thousands are rampaging through the capital and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Would Jesus Deport</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/05/01/who-would-jesus-deport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 02:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[church and state]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[two kingdoms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://resident-aliens.org/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the first of May, there were protest all over the country against Arizona&#8217;s new immigration law.  One protestor was carrying a sign  &#8220;Who Would Jesus Deport?&#8221; What if it said &#8220;Who Would Jesus Marry?&#8221;  (I mean by this not get married to but whose marriage would he preside over.)  Can you image the outrage? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonhoeffer and Obama</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/04/13/bonhoeffer-and-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dscipleship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Metaxas has just published the first biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in forty years: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. This review at Fox News has an illuminating quote from Metaxas that should sound alarm bells in the age of Obama: But the legacy that Bonhoeffer leaves future generations is of the untold dangers of idolizing politicians as messianic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creationless Creation</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/03/24/creationless-creation/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/03/24/creationless-creation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Salvo, Jennifer Fulwiler has a great article, &#8220;Mad About Babies:&#160; What&#8217;s Sex Got to Do With It?&#8221; Until a couple of years ago, I was militantly pro-choice. When I heard people make anti-abortion statements, it filled me with a white-hot anger that I could barely contain. Behind my views was a buried but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capture or Kill, War or Crime</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/02/14/capture-or-kill-war-or-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a &#8220;Washington Post&#8221; story today it was reported that under President Obama there are more targeted killings than captures in counter-terrorism efforts.  Senator Bond (R, Mo) says: &#8220;Over a year after taking office, the administration has still failed to answer the hard questions about what to do if we have the opportunity to capture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Pew, Blue Pulpit</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/01/07/red-pew-blue-pulpit/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/01/07/red-pew-blue-pulpit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting article today in &#8220;The Courier-Journal&#8221; about a new survey done by the Research Services of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.&#160; &#8220;Donkeys are often preaching to elephants in Presbyterian churches, a denominational survey says. Specifically, Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2 to 1 margin among Presbyterian pastors. In contrast, Republicans far outnumber Democrats among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephanopoulos Blinked</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/21/stephanopoulos-blinked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely do the press actually ask President Obama any hard questions, but yesterday on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; George Stephanopoulos actually did.  He challenged President Obama&#8217;s support of the individual mandate within health reform legislation as a tax.  Obama was having none of it.  Here&#8217;s a relevant part of the transcript. STEPHANOPOULOS: That may be, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Wilson in Context</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/12/joe-wilson-in-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know nothing of Joe Wilson, and it&#8217;s not my goal to defend his outburst on the floor during President Obama&#8217;s speech before the Joint Session of Congress.  I also am uninterested in the type of &#8220;If it had been Bush, wait they did do that sort of thing to Bush&#8221; condemnations of hypocrisy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steyn on Kennedy (or Why I Tend to Be Non-Progressive)</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/11/steyn-on-kennedy-or-why-i-tend-to-be-non-progressive/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/11/steyn-on-kennedy-or-why-i-tend-to-be-non-progressive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[christian political theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In general I would like to change the overall tenor of my blog away from the more polemical, reflections on the news-of-the-day, culture war sort, but something Mark Steyn recently wrote about Edward Kennedy summed up a lot of things for me.   Steyn is acerbic, clever and hilarious, the closest living writer we have to [...]]]></description>
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