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Merry Christmas in Chicago<\/div>\n
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KSZ interviews RM-S about mD at OtM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Life of a church planter<\/a>: Todd Hiestand.<\/div>\n
Life of a pastor<\/a>: Jim Martin.<\/div>\n
Life of a poet<\/a>: L.L. Barkat.<\/div>\n
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\"PopeDecapped.jpg\"<\/span>Ted on Tony<\/a>.<\/div>\n
LaVonne<\/a> on wish lists.<\/div>\n
TSK on Shannon Hopkins<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Dan Kimball<\/a> on “organized religion.” Is organized religion unavoidable?<\/div>\n
Richard Mouw<\/a> on formation.<\/div>\n
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The future is the new: Ben Arment<\/a>.<\/div>\n
The past is now: Mike Bird<\/a>.<\/div>\n
The future begins now: Eugene Cho<\/a>.<\/div>\n
The past is changing into a new future: Jenna Liao<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Avoiding consumerism at Christmas<\/a>: J.R. Briggs.<\/div>\n
Avoiding stores that don’t say “Merry Christmas”?<\/a>: Jason Boyett.<\/div>\n
Avoiding extremes in the pulpit<\/a>: Bob Robinson.<\/div>\n
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Is Advent biblical<\/a>?<\/div>\n
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This research<\/a> shows the growth of e-Readers, but nothing will replace a finely bound volume as one can find in the Everyman’s Library volumes.<\/div>\n
Top 5 blogging misconceptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Meandering in the News<\/div>\n
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\"Sheep.jpg\"<\/span>News item of the week: David Brooks on Obama’s dispassionate, analytical style<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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1. Kathleen Parker’s article<\/a> on shifts among the GOP. Cohen and Balz’s article<\/a> on GOP. Obama ponders his response while<\/a>….<\/div>\n
2. Miroslav Volf on “no offense given”<\/a> regarding Yale and the Muslim caricature.<\/div>\n
3. Burpless sheep<\/a>. (HT: BB)<\/div>\n
4. Rodney Clapp on cyberstalking<\/a>. By the way, Rodney, I heard about this via twitter-world.<\/div>\n
5. Switzerland bans minaret construction<\/a>.<\/div>\n
6. The Narrative<\/a>: Thomas Friedman. But: The Primitive Narrative<\/a> is different? Changing Narratives<\/a>.<\/div>\n
7. If you don’t have the facts, claim the facts have been distorted<\/a>: “The trouble with outsourcing your marbles to the peer-reviewed set is that, if you take away one single thing from the leaked documents, it’s that the global warm-mongers have wholly corrupted the “peer-review” process. When it comes to promoting the impending ecopalypse, the Climate Research Unit is the nerve-center of the operation.” The only way to prove these folks wrong is to offer better evidence. Offer some evidence, Mr. Steyn.<\/span><\/div>\n
8. The Top 100 Global Thinkers<\/a>.<\/div>\n
9. No more executive bonuses<\/a>? (HT: MK)<\/div>\n
10. For me, the question is this: Why did the minister permit this<\/a>? (HT: AB) Or this<\/a>?<\/div>\n
11. African American, educated, and unemployed<\/a> … more than white counterparts.<\/div>\n
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Meanderings in Sports<\/div>\n
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\"LS.jpg\"<\/span>Tiger Woods, the center of sports news and gossip, will never be the same again — nor will our perceptions of him. Read Karen on Tiger<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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We’ll be cheering for Notre Dame’s women’s basketball team<\/a>; my sister-in-law coached one of the players on the team: Lindsay Schrader<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Big Ten – SEC games were fun.<\/div>\n
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Joe Posnanski’s good piece<\/a> on the “one and done” club.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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