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		<title>What I want from a Nativity film</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find most Bible films to be unsatisfying. Here&#8217;s what I would like to see in a Nativity film: 1. Authentic-looking actors. I realise that a film is by its very nature make believe, but any attempt to reproduce the biblical world has to look and sound right. One could plausibly film a modern version [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=32037&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To be called by one&#8217;s true name</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/11/29/to-be-called-by-ones-true-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A story from old Prague: Rabbi Yehuda Loew ben Bezalel was the greatest of the European rabbis. So great were his deeds that I can scarce give them utterance lest by uttering them I become accursed by their magic. His was the Golem, the animated man, given life when he put under its tongue the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=31321&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a theology of taxation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sense is that modern Mormons, particularly those who identify with the American right, tend to prioritise the nuclear relationship over all others. Who doesn&#8217;t? It is an entirely natural way of living in the world and represents the conservative view that we should protect the goodness that humans already have rather than force them into social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=31038&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance Talk</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/11/11/remembrance-sunday-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As cathedral bells toll remembrance in Worcester, I thought I&#8217;d repost these thoughts on war for 11/11/11. For Christians, Remembrance Sunday can stir mixed emotions. Today we remember the fallen of war and regret that war seems to be the natural condition of man. We weep along with God who, when surveying the war and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=22043&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disdain</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/10/16/disdain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I generally don&#8217;t have much truck with Mormon notions of persecution. When you have sucked from the marrow of western capitalism as well as Mormons have, there isn&#8217;t a lot to complain about. Except . . . this video showing a love-in between atheist provocateur Bill Maher and anti-Mormon zealot Robert Jeffress  makes me feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=30142&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Ethics and the Old Testament</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/10/03/review-ethics-and-the-old-testament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethics and the Old Testament by John Barton Having had a go myself, I am always keen on efforts to talk sensibly about Old Testament ethics. Oxford professor John Barton&#8217;s slim volume offers a collection of his own lectures on biblical morality and does a very good job moving the conversation beyond simple caricatures of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=29521&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Life in Pearl Jam</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/09/21/a-life-in-pearl-jam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am, and will always be, a child of the 90s, a member of Generation X, an unrepentant bore who still believes that Nirvana&#8217;s Nevermind was, just short of the fall of the Berlin Wall, about the most important socio-cultural event this side of Sergeant Pepper. I say this aware that the kool kids will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=28990&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creation and Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/06/27/creation-and-collaboration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sacrament meeting talk given in the Loughborough Ward, Leicester England Stake on 12th June 2011. I remember the first time I felt the Spirit. I was a young boy watching a recording of the crew of Apollo 8 reading from Genesis 1 as they looked back at the beautiful blue orb we call home. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=27139&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Learnings from Provo</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/06/07/cultural-learnings-from-provo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some reflections on a recent week spent in Provo: 1. It has quirks, but BYU seems like a fine place to study and work. The beautiful setting, fantastic resources, and dedicated teachers make BYU a jewel in the church&#8217;s crown. Which is why it is so important to get it right. 2. Three cheers for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=27054&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preaching America without offending the world</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/05/26/preaching-america-without-offending-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://bycommonconsent.com/2011/05/26/preaching-america-without-offending-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 08:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our pal Aaron R has noted that while &#8220;the D&#38;C teaches that the [US] Constitution is inspired,&#8221; such rhetoric is &#8220;conspicuously absent in British Mormon religious discourse.&#8221; He further notes that Armand Mauss has recently argued that &#8220;it these types of doctrines which inhibit Church growth in some areas and he subsequently calls for reinterpretations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bycommonconsent.com&amp;blog=6576503&amp;post=26860&amp;subd=bycommonconsent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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