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	<title><![CDATA[The Tentative Apologist]]></title>
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		<title><![CDATA[Worldviews: A Conversation with Barry]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/worldviews-a-conversation-with-barry-10/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/worldviews-a-conversation-with-barry-10/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I have enjoyed having a convesation with Barry Bowen about the concept of worldview. Unfortunately extended comments in the threads at the Christian Post are very hard to follow since paragraph breaks&nbsp;are not allowed and thus everything gets mashed together. So I have&nbsp;reproduced my response to Barry here:&nbsp;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:13:53 </pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The problem of irrelevant comments explained]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/the-problem-of-irrelevant-comments-explained-09/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/the-problem-of-irrelevant-comments-explained-09/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last article, "Commenting on the Tentative Apologist" I explained that I will be deleting two types of comments: those that are ad hominem attacks on my person and those that are non sequiturs. In this article I am going to explain further what a non sequitur is by using a recent example.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:46:37 </pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commenting on The Tentative Apologist]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/commenting-on-the-tentative-apologist-09/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/commenting-on-the-tentative-apologist-09/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been some discussion recently at The Christian Post blogs about the ongoing problem of decorum. A good example of the problem is found in the comments at my blog from individuals who choose not to engage the topics and arguments of my articles but rather to post non sequiturs and ad hominems.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:42:27 </pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Christians shouldn’t seek a “biblical worldview”]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/why-christians-shouldnt-seek-a-biblical-worldview-08/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/why-christians-shouldnt-seek-a-biblical-worldview-08/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning I set out to deliver two workshop sessions at a Christian conference in another city. It was a round-trip journey that would have taken months by wagon. But such are the wonders of modern technology that I flew out in the morning and arrived home again late last night. Over the years I have spoken at many conferences of this type &ndash; for non-academic Christian professionals &]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:43:19 </pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does God punish people through natural disasters?]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/does-god-punish-people-through-natural-disasters-05/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/does-god-punish-people-through-natural-disasters-05/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[By some counts more than three hundred thousand people were killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake while an additional three hundred thousand were injured and one million rendered homeless. The scale of human suffering is truly unimaginable.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:48:00 </pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Quote others the way you would have them quote you]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/quote-others-the-way-you-would-have-them-quote-you-05/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/quote-others-the-way-you-would-have-them-quote-you-05/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther is a darling of the internet infidel community not least because he provided many quotable tidbits which can be invoked at will to marginalize Christians as being "irrational" or "anti-reason".]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:07:05 </pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What was in Jesus’ hand? Lessons on why you can’t take the Bible literally word for word]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/what-was-in-jesus-hand-lessons-on-why-you-cant-take-the-bible-literally-word-for-word-04/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/what-was-in-jesus-hand-lessons-on-why-you-cant-take-the-bible-literally-word-for-word-04/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a 2007 Gallup survey "About one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word for word."]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:55:09 </pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A jerk before Jesus becomes a jerk for Jesus]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/a-jerk-before-jesus-becomes-a-jerk-for-jesus-03/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/10/a-jerk-before-jesus-becomes-a-jerk-for-jesus-03/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The story behind "Machine Gun Preacher" is made for Hollywood. The film tells the (true) story of Sam Childers, a biker who becomes a Christian and then is deeply moved when he hears a missionary describe the plight of Sudanese orphans. So moved is he that he leaves his family, flies to Sudan, gets a gun, and begins defending those orphans.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:04:31 </pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Should you marry your theology to the latest science?]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/09/should-you-marry-your-theology-to-the-latest-science-30/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/09/should-you-marry-your-theology-to-the-latest-science-30/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been slowly reading through Michael Shermer's How We Believe in my spare time. It is a pleasant enough read, but has many noticeable weaknesses. Perhaps the biggest weakness is that Shermer is an advocate of the separation or two worlds model of theology and science (what Stephen Jay Gould called the "NOMA" or non-overlapping magisteria approach). This is a dogmatic claim that religion and th]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:49:24 </pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is the church supposed to be “a place for you”?]]></title>
		<guid>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/09/is-the-church-meant-to-be-a-place-for-you-29/</guid>
		<link>http://blogs.christianpost.com/tentativeapologist/2011/09/is-the-church-meant-to-be-a-place-for-you-29/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In the late 1970s a young preacher named Rick Warren started going door to door asking people why they didn't attend church. He then took that data and used it as a basis to start his church. And the rest, as they say, is history.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:09:41 </pubDate>
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