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		<title>Southern Baptists Offer Churches an Alternative Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Southern Baptist Convention, America&#8217;s most popular Protestant denomination, decided to not change its name, but let local churches that don&#8217;t like the &#8220;Southern&#8221; label call themselves Great Commission Baptists instead, The Tennessean reported. Leaders of the Nashville-based denomination decided last year to once again reconsider its name. A task force ultimately recommended it retain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frstephensmuts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18279901&amp;post=10057&amp;subd=frstephensmuts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beauty of Lent and Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we can&#8217;t admit we sin, we will never know the beautiful thrust of forgiveness that lands us within God&#8217;s embrace. Read on here. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frstephensmuts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18279901&amp;post=10053&amp;subd=frstephensmuts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Noah’s Ark Fraud Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr Stephen Smuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at PaleoBabble: Dr. Amy Beam was kind enough to email me her report entitled, “The Kurdish Guides and the Noah’s Ark Discovery Fraud.”  Please have a look. It’s a first-hand accounting of certain individuals involved in the hoax. And for those of you who will reflexively conclude that such exposure of the fraud is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frstephensmuts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18279901&amp;post=10050&amp;subd=frstephensmuts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Modern Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bishop Brian Marsh on the Traditional Anglican Communion Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From his Lenten Message on Ash Wednesday: 22 February 2012-Ash Wednesday Dear Friends in Christ, I bid you all a Holy Lent!  During the next several weeks, many bishops and vicars-general of the Traditional Anglican Communion will meet outside Johannesburg, South Africa. We will gather in prayer, as we seek to discern God&#8217;s will for our communion. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frstephensmuts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18279901&amp;post=10042&amp;subd=frstephensmuts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vatican Requests 1,500-Year-Old Syriac Bible Held In Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr Stephen Smuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post reports: The Vatican has allegedly issued an official request to examine a 1,500-year-old Bible that has been held in Turkey for the past 12 years, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. The Bible reportedly contains early teachings of Jesus Christ and is written in gold lettering on animal hide in Syriac, a dialect of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frstephensmuts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18279901&amp;post=10036&amp;subd=frstephensmuts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ordinariate for Former Anglicans Visits Pope and Rome</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr Stephen Smuts</dc:creator>
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		<title>Discovering the Jerusalem from the Time of Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every wondered what Jerusalem looked like 2000 years ago? Archeological finds in the Jewish Quarter yield clues. The Jerusalem Post: What did Jerusalem look like in Jesus&#8217; days? For most of Christian history, this question remained shrouded in mystery. When the Temple and city were destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D., the ruins remained [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frstephensmuts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18279901&amp;post=10030&amp;subd=frstephensmuts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeology and the Exodus from Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr Stephen Smuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James K. Hoffmeier is Professor of Old Testament and Near Eastern Archaeology at Trinity International University, Divinity School. Since 1994 he has directed the North Sinai Archaeological Project&#8230; Below is his fascinating lecture from the Lanier Theological Library on what recent archaeological and geological work in North Sinai tell us about the exodus from Egypt: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frstephensmuts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18279901&amp;post=10024&amp;subd=frstephensmuts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishop Charles Chaput: Preparing for Lent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[+Chaput on preparing for Lent: &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frstephensmuts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18279901&amp;post=10020&amp;subd=frstephensmuts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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