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	<title>MICHAEL BRENNEN: riflessioni &#187; Christian</title>
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		<title>Gratuitousness and Reciprocity Contrasted</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2012/01/15/gratuitousness-and-reciprocity-contrasted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enzo Bianchi: In any case, if the other does not accept or receive forgiveness, the one who forgives, in forgiving, affirms gratuitousness.  He affirms that he wants to re-initiate the relationship with the other—the one who wronged him—from the beginning.  He wants in some way to say that he does not want reciprocity.  This to me is what is truly and profoundly human in forgiving.]]></description>
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		<title>re &#8211; narratore / king &#8211; narrator</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2011/05/29/re-narratore-king-narrator-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 01:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haim Baharier, a rabbi in Italy, was the guest on the March 20th program of Uomini e Profeti discussing I Samuel 9-15, entitled "Saul: tragedy of the first king".  In the course of the discussion he made a remark that caught my attention.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla&#8217;s Person and Act and Post-foundationalist Truth</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/09/10/karol-wojtylas-person-and-act-and-post-foundationalist-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karol Wojtyla's <i>Person and Act</i> seems the best approach I have personally found to understand the world after a post-foundationalist collapse.  Any certainty that I have does not derive from my ability to reduce the world to the scope of my theories, whether scientific or theological, but from truths which I re-cognize outside myself, toward which I reach beyond myself.]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac Redux</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/01/03/abraham-ishmael-and-isaac-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/01/03/abraham-ishmael-and-isaac-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much contemporary teaching holds that in having Ishmael by Hagar Abraham took it on himself to make God's promises happen.  The Genesis text does not support that.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I am second&#8221; campaign</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/07/05/i-am-second-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/07/05/i-am-second-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I disagree with the campaign's message, partly in what it does say, but more centrally in what it does not say.]]></description>
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		<title>Money, Greed, and God</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/06/01/money-greed-and-god/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/06/01/money-greed-and-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The church is bombarded with two competing messages about money and capitalism. The first message is that wealth is bad and causes much of the world's suffering; the second is that wealth is good and God wants you to prosper and be rich."  There are two foci in the quoted text: wealth and self. This seems a misfocus; the 2nd greatest command is about the self to other relation, not self to wealth.]]></description>
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		<title>Seated with Jesus in the heavens&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/05/16/seated-with-jesus-in-the-heavens/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/05/16/seated-with-jesus-in-the-heavens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 05:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considering Ephesians 2:6, we have an idea that were we to have the right sort of spiritual "telescope" we could look "out there somewhere" and see ourselves literally sitting down with him.  I don't understand it that way any more.]]></description>
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		<title>Church Marketing and Jesus</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/01/15/church-marketing-and-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/01/15/church-marketing-and-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Then there is the other extraordinary theme, which is that of 'visibility', we might say.  In our media society we know well that you exist only if you appear, only if you are seen.  And churches are easily and fatally induced into seeking visibility." <i>Paolo Ricca</i>]]></description>
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		<title>Ecclesiastitudes</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/01/10/ecclesiastitudes/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/01/10/ecclesiastitudes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, in the first few minutes after awaking while reorienting to the world, it occurred to me that the Beatitudes have an answer to my perennial bugaboo, the opening of Ecclesiastes:  "Vanity of vanity; all is vanity."]]></description>
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		<title>Membership Covenants</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2008/12/10/membership-covenants/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2008/12/10/membership-covenants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In conversation last Sunday afternoon with someone visiting from the Pacific Northwest, the topic of membership covenants at large evangelical churches came up.]]></description>
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