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	<title>Necessary Roughness &#187; religion</title>
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	<description>two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles</description>
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		<title>We Need More Blogs of Missionaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If familiarity breeds contempt, unfamiliarity breeds indifference.
Scott at DSvS has gotten into the habit of asking why LCMS people can raise a ruckus about the firing of a radio talk show host and producer but not raise a ruckus about other topics. 
One answer arises from our own faults. We are too easily fatigued by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of an NWT</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 04:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Update, May 6: The original intent of this article was to show how I turned an uncomfortable situation into a salutary habit.  In the first edition of this post, explicit references made some readers uncomfortable and were not necessary to the point, so those references have been removed.
There is a Lutheran blog called Priestmanship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weedon: The Wrong Way To Teach Homiletics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I normally don&#8217;t like to link to a lot of blogs. It feels like piggybacking. But when Pastor Weedon follows in time with a post like this, it&#8217;s like back-to-back jacks in baseball.
Example:
The task of the preacher is not to master the text, not to interpret it, not to exegete it. Rather, the task of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josh S: A Different Kind of Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh S, perhaps one of the first Lutheran bloggers ever, has written a great post that distinguishes Lutheranism from the religion of the megachurch. 
Here&#8217;s how he wraps up:
You&#8217;ll never understand the Lutheran Church just by looking at it as &#8220;liturgical&#8221; (by the way, our liturgy beats anything Marty Haugen ever dreamed up) or at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary on Rev. Wright&#8217;s NPC Speech</title>
		<link>http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1697</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News has posted the entirety of Reverend Jeremiah Wright&#8217;s speech at the National Press Club. He is opening a two-day seminar on &#8220;the African-American religious experience and its historical, theological and political context.&#8221;
One might think because I do not have the most darkly complected skin that I have no right to comment in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eighteen and the Thirteen</title>
		<link>http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1686</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was able to listen to the Candidate Call service from Concordia Theological Seminary &#8212; Fort Wayne.  It was a beautiful Matins service even though it started at 6:40pm Eastern time.
There was an important statistic mentioned. Eighteen candidates from St. Louis and thirteen candidates from Fort Wayne, though they completed their M. Div. degrees, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rev. Wilken Morning Audio Available</title>
		<link>http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1683</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KFUO broadcasts and archives services from three churches in the St. Louis this morning. A couple of days ago Pastor Weedon tipped readers that Rev. Todd Wilken, former host of Issues, Etc., would preach from the pulpit of Peace Lutheran in St. Louis.
KFUO doesn&#8217;t have the archive of the worship service yet, but Peace Lutheran&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good For You to Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to Rev. Wilken&#8217;s monologue on vocation reminded me of a recent conversation with the older daughter.
We were in the kitchen unpacking from the Cleveland trip: Mom, myself, and the older daughter. I had asked her to do something simple, taking something upstairs. She got mad and started crying, then angrily said, &#8220;You always give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CTS-Fort Wayne Hosts Conference on Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is heartening to see confessional Lutherans and seminaries engaging the culture at large. We have a doctrinal demand for calling a thing what it is. One topic where we get a lot of misinformation from political leaders and from other denominations is the nature of Islam.  This is an important topic. Islam is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issues, Etc., Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The LCMS International Center was the site of a silent vigil calling to attention the lack of openness concerning the termination of the LCMS national radio ministry &#8220;Issues, Etc.&#8221; The St. Louis Post-Dispatch was there to interview and take pictures, and an article appeared this morning. Augsburg1530 reports that two synodical employees came out to [...]]]></description>
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