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	<description>Reflections Of One Not At Home In This World</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Political Cartoon</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/10/01/political-cartoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If I could draw I&#8217;d make a political cartoon.  A winding road with a car in the right lane with America painted on the roof.  The license plate reads Nixon.  Next panel, same car, license plate reads Carter and it&#8217;s in the left lane.  Next panel, back in the right with Reagan/Bush.  Next, back in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty of Our Prayer</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/05/08/poverty-of-our-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I received the following in an email:
I just wanted to tell everyone that I am so grateful to have each of you in my life. I pray you all have a blessed day. It was difficult for me to decide who I thought would DO this because many people claim to pray, but not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Oil and Politics as Usual</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/05/04/obama-oil-and-politics-as-usual/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/05/04/obama-oil-and-politics-as-usual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 15:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The primaries have come to NC, and I have to tell you, I never thought I&#8217;d pull for a Clinton, but if I weren&#8217;t for McCain I&#8217;d have to vote for Hillary.  Obama is slick, inexperienced and elitist.  He&#8217;s like one of  those infuriating Sprite ™ commercials that tell you &#8220;Image is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vision and Orientation</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/05/03/vision-and-orientation/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/05/03/vision-and-orientation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 18:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Meditations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scripture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Look at what is before your eyes.&#8220; 2 Corinthians 10:7a
&#8220;let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith.&#8221; Hebrews 12: 1a-2b
So, so often these days we hear about the importance of vision.  Vision is important, but it does not matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat This Book</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/05/02/eat-this-book/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/05/02/eat-this-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scripture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eugene Peterson is convinced that the &#8220;way&#8221; we read the Bible is as important as &#8220;that&#8221; we read the Bible.  In Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading, he argues that “Christians are to absorb, imbibe, feed on and digest Scripture.”  A translator of Scripture himself, Peterson recommends a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maher and Persecution</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/18/maher-and-persecution/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/18/maher-and-persecution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Maher recently said: &#8220;I&#8217;d like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats.&#8221;
Of course the Catholic church is protesting these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extending Unemployment</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/14/extending-unemployment/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/14/extending-unemployment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been some talk recently about a new stimulus package.  &#8220;Consumers may be more interested in saving than spending, muting some of the immediate positive impact from tax rebates in the first economic stimulus package, lawmakers worry. So Democrats are considering a second economic stimulus plan that could extend unemployment insurance benefits.&#8221;
In a discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lord is My Shepherd</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/13/the-lord-is-my-shepherd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Meditations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth Sunday in Easter is traditionally Good Shepherd Sunday, with readings from Psalm 23 and John 10 especially prominent.  Today I found a brief essay that Kenneth E. Bailey wrote on Psalm 23.  Dr. Bailey is a voice crying in the wilderness of Christian Middle East studies.
&#8220;Dr. Bailey spent 40 years (1955-1995) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The McCain Brand</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/12/the-mccain-brand/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/12/the-mccain-brand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A story today in the &#8220;Washington Post&#8221; reports that John McCain &#8220;has been steadily gaining in national polls against Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he holds a lead in many of the swing states that are likely to determine who wins the presidency.&#8221;
How?
McCain&#8217;s advisers attribute this seeming contradiction to what they believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/11/god-bless-you-mr-vonnegut/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/11/god-bless-you-mr-vonnegut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the anniversary of the death of Kurt Vonnegut Jr, a comparative essay full of allusions and homages.
Writing as Remembering, or On Vonnegut, Hemingway and Camus: A Duty Dance with Death
In Howard’s End, E.M. Forster wrote that ”Death destroys a man, but it’s the idea of death that saves him.”  Death is usually an [...]]]></description>
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