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		<title>The Key is the Response to Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leviticus 12 (ESV) seems to paint a pretty gender-biased view from our overly sensitive gender aware lives. In fact, it seems pretty anti-female. However, even the ESV Study Bible doesn&#8217;t say this, but actually aserts that since the text does not mention why, that it is too much inference. So, where does that leave us?
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		<title>Breaching Faith With God, By Breaching Faith With Others</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Leviticus 5:17-19 (ESV) &#38; Leviticus 6:2 (ESV), we see that God is ever present (i.e., omnipresent) in our lives. This includes, according to these two passages, when one fails to fulfill one&#8217;s obligations to others. This includes when one &#8220;finds&#8221; things that were &#8220;lost&#8221;.
When one&#8217;s obligations to others are not fulfilled, according to these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20100224/485</link>
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		<title>What Do You See When You Look At&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the celebration of the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr,  we see where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is used to bolster movements and causes that he did not specifically speak on. For example, in Raleigh-Durham, NC, a gay rights activist is torqued that a pastor who preaches a historical understanding of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20100116/472</link>
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		<title>Natural Disasters and Hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not talking about Pat Robertson&#8217;s latest “wisdom”.
What I am talking about is human nature. Specifically, I am talking about the all too human nature of Christians, especially “Western” “Civilization” Christians. I do not decry anyone that seeks to give to help that nation. We did. In fact, I believe it is part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20100113/468</link>
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		<title>Even Religious People Have Different Views?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shocking! (sarcasm)
Surveys: U.S. Religious Activists Have &#8216;Widely Divergent&#8217; Views
As much as I like some of the content on ChristianPost.com, today we have another article (see this post for another) which is too vague to be useful, other than to draw gross conclusions that can only be divisive, rather than edifying. I really hate it when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20090916/443</link>
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		<title>Do Christians Believe in Redemption (i.e., a new creation) or Not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this headline, Ky. Church Ordains Registered Sex Offender, a few days ago, and was finally able to read it. And, I finally decided to actually post something on my blog, rather than twitter.
I have to say this brief article causes me no small amount of anguish. I cannot imagine what both the man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20090915/437</link>
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		<title>Prosperity Gospel Hyperbole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know Christianity today was just trying to get a rise with this, The Real Prosperity Gospel, but Christianity has enough problems with the prosperity gospel, that for them to do this strikes me as irresponsible.  Just my $0.02 (worth even less now than is used to be)]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20090421/428</link>
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		<title>Change Your Name&#8230;Because We Say So</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the article, Name Not on Our List? Change It, China Says, the New York Times doesn&#8217;t recognize (or know, probably) that most governments within the United States (including the federal government) may not try to force a person to change their name, but they won&#8217;t recognize your full name if the name is longer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20090421/425</link>
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		<title>A Manifesto for the Christian Life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was listening this morning to the latest Accidental Creative Podcast, AC #149: Manifesto, and I was struck by how much the manifesto strikes me as a healthy Christian way of life.  Todd Henry (the owner/creator of Accidental Creative) created A Manifesto For Accidental Creative.  This is my &#8220;Christian&#8221; take on it.

We witness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20090302/398</link>
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		<title>All Mixed: Culture and Religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Critics have variously argued that Hebrew language charter schools impermissibly erode church-state boundaries, potentially balkanize Jews from the rest of society, and create a false dichotomy between Jewish religion and culture.  
“The idea here is to strengthen Jewish identity, but you can’t do it in an open way because you run afoul of the law,” said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20090124/366</link>
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		<title>The Shrinking Great Divide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe it is time to go beyond the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. What is at stake at the start of the third millennium is no longer the same as at the beginning of the second millennium, when at the heart of Western Christianity the separation took place between Catholics and Protestants.
To give but one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20081215/355</link>
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		<title>Did You Know? (Version 3.0)</title>
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hattip: Douglas Karr]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20081206/349</link>
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		<title>Captive to Government?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or does this whole situation smell oddly of Peter's rebuke of Simon Magus? It's sad to think that Kingdom business is held captive to bottom lines held captive to government rules held captive to pagan legislators and policy-makers held captive to the father of lies. I wonder how many other ways we allow ourselves to remain captive to the world because of some perceived benefit?]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20081112/346</link>
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		<title>The Ten Commandments Re-Framed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite that, it did cause me to think about the 10 Commandments, and how we view them, or, more particularly, how we don't view them in their entirety.

I've been thinking about writing this for a while, but, frankly, it is a rather large undertaking for such a theologically-challenged person as myself, and I don't want to speak out of turn.  However, in the midst of my MIT studies, I read a paraphrase of John Wesley's "Means of Grace".  As John Wesley is, in most regards, the theological father of the Church of the Nazarene, such statements by him must be taken seriously by Nazarenes.  One of John Wesley's "general" Means of Grace is: keeping the commandments.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20081104/341</link>
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		<title>We Lost The Message Somewhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was not going to write of politics in my blog, but after reading of Paul's optimism in Philippians, I feel the need to.

Much of Obama's appeal, besides the usual political can't-nail-them-to-the-wall or hold-them-to-their-promises (regardless of political party), is that he has packaged the concept of hope well. Obama's success should be a wake up to the church, not because of his politics, but because he's repackage the quintessential Christian message―hope.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20081104/332</link>
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		<title>A Quip On A Manufactured Collapse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Novak&#8217;s theory regarding Western democratic capitalism can be summerized as a three-legged stool with the legs being, political freedom, economic freedom, and moral restraint.
We are witnessing the after effects of the complete removal of moral restraint.  Political and economic freedoms have been curtailed for the last 20 years or so, but they are still, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080918/324</link>
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		<title>Camille Paglia and Sarah Palin: Need I Say More?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Camille Paglia, on Salon.com, wrote an interesting opinion column regarding Sarah Palin.  I&#8217;ve been doing my best to avoid the silly season of an election year, but this column had too much good stuff to ignore just because it included Sarah Palin (which was actually a detraction, because I really don&#8217;t want to talk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080916/317</link>
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		<title>Should The Focus Be Evangelism?</title>
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More to the point, theologically, the Christian assembly is a fellowship of the redeemed. It is a manifestation, as well as an anticipation or foretaste, of the great assembly that Christ is building—the assembly of the firstborn in heaven that will be revealed on the last Day (Heb 12:22-24). The purpose of our earthly assemblies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080907/308</link>
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		<title>Hope for Doubters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[READ: Matthew 28:16-17
When they saw him, they worshiped him—but some of them doubted!
Matthew 28:17 (NLT)
When the eleven disciples of Jesus met Jesus in Galilee, “they worshiped him—but some of them doubted!” What a stunning statement! For one thing, given that these very disciples became the foundational leaders of the early church, you might expect Matthew [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080906/306</link>
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		<title>Thinking/Posing/Contemplating, Not Just Reacting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this election cycle, talk about an emerging evangelical political center abounds. Much of the discussion is about how conservative and liberal Christians can work together to realize Christ-commanded essentials and their corollaries: care for the poor, for example, and its extensions regarding access, justice, and health care.

THEOOZE &#8211; Articles: Viewing Article]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080902/305</link>
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		<title>The Just Plain Messiness of being a pastor&#8211;EXPOSED!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a pastor I am blown away by Where&#8217;s Your Jesus Now? A lot of pastors are trained to do theology like scientists test theories&#8230;in a pristine, antiseptic, white lab-coat environment. We pastors want to be tidy, neat, clean and &#8220;biblically sound.&#8221; Don&#8217;t let messy people and chaotic life mess with our theology. Our theology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080902/304</link>
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		<title>Ignoring or Avoiding The Discussion of Heresy, Doesn&#8217;t Make It Go Away.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t meant to bring it up in a Facebook discussion, What is emerging?, but I did&#8212;heresy.  I greatly fear for a people who won&#8217;t stand for what they say they believe (especially foundational things), as I equally fear for a people who automatically attack people with whom they disagree.
The funny thing is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080822/301</link>
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		<title>Suicidal Christian&#8212;An Oxymoron?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you read In The Darkness, A Light Shines, you might guess that the topic of suicide is a serious concern of mine.  C. Michael Patton, on his blog Parchment &#38; Pen, provides a response to a letter that discusses Those who commit suicide cannot be Christian . . .
I think (but have no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080821/295</link>
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		<title>Everyone Is Full Of Surprises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think that all of us would by now have learned that we rarely know the depths of a person.  Well, I have been confronted with that yet again, as I learned that Vin Diesel is making a movie about Hannibal, not the cannibal one.
Vin Diesal strikes one as just a nameless action hero typecasted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080821/293</link>
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		<title>My, How They Love One Another</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are we Kicking Grandma to the Curb?
For a number of reasons, I have a real problem with what this post (and the quoted article/news story) say.  Not because it isn&#8217;t true, but because it is.  I don&#8217;t think that nursing homes are an ideal situation, that&#8217;s for sure, but am I capable of taking care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080820/291</link>
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		<title>By God&#8217;s Grace&#8230;I Will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julian Freeman over at Christian Thought has a challenge for all Christians, take James 4:13-17 seriously. In 7 Reasons to Say &#8216;God Willing&#8230;&#8217;, Freeman speaks of how when we use this phrase, we should become more aware that it is by His grace and mercies that our plans succeed or fail.
I will say that as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080820/288</link>
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		<title>What Is Speaking The Truth In Love?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keith Giles, over at subversive1, seems to have had an interesting experience regarding a person shutting down the conversation (or the comments) that challenged this individual&#8217;s theology/teaching.  Keith states that he rarely, if ever, does this kind of public revealing (and I believe him.  I just wanted to put that out there), however, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080820/286</link>
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		<title>The Reformed Church in the Reformed Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because we are in a world now that is not nearly so hierarchical as other generations were, it is possible for your congregation to network laterally with other congregations that are equally faithful.  And that is exactly what&#8217;s happening in the New Wineskins network of churches, the Confessing Church Network, there are such networks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080724/255</link>
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		<title>What Happens When The Emerging Church Holds Up A Mirror To The Established Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Mclaren recently addressed the 2008 Lambeth Conference (see Wikipedia), and while he does not (despite media opinion to the contrary) represent the entirety (one could question even a significant minority) of the MEECM, it is often worthwhile to hear what he has to say.
In the article above, there are a couple of quotes attributed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080724/276</link>
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		<title>In The Darkness, A Light Shines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post has been a long time in coming, both writing, thinking, and living.

The darkness closes in.&#160; You can’t breathe.&#160; It is hard to fight for that breath.&#160; You can sense the deeper darkness of a chasm you cannot see, but know is there.&#160; You are coming close to the edge of the chasm.
Almost without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080723/275</link>
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		<title>The Boring Life-Saving Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Jesus and Context, John Frye uses the collective experience of pre-flight safety instruction, and applies it to the eternal saving instructions.
Have you ever been bored silly listening once again to the flight attendant rattling off the routine&#8230;

&#8230;should the cabin pressure actually drop at 30,000 feet and those little yellow masks make their real debut, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080715/262</link>
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		<title>The True Christian Family?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Daily Reflection, Mark Roberts talks about Matthew 12:50 using some very strong language.
&#8220;Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!&#8221;
Matthew 12:50
He points out that this applies even to &#8220;Christian&#8221; families, or very specifically to Christians.  Despite &#8220;Christian&#8221; &#8220;family values,&#8221; it is Jesus Christ&#8217;s value [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080709/261</link>
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		<title>Beware of Following the Trend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are far too many churches that are trying to follow the trends in an attempt to &#8220;grow&#8221; their congregations.  The first problem is that they are focusing on quantity not quality.  The second problem is that the churches are always a few years behind.  A huge number of churches are trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080628/257</link>
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		<title>My Feet (Should) Hurt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This impulse appears in broader Christian culture. The title of a book by the bestselling author of Boundaries (Zondervan, 2002) says it all: Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren’t (Zondervan, 1996). We’ve learned to protect ourselves with spiritual gifts inventories: “I’m afraid I can’t help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080607/254</link>
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		<title>Church-Going Facades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy for Christians in our day to fall into the &#8220;showy religiosity&#8221; pit. We put on our happiest face at church, even though our hearts are far from the Lord. Or we look as if we&#8217;re worshipping with zeal when our minds are wandering.
Avoiding a Show of Religiosity
Daily Reflection and Prayer by Mark D. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080607/256</link>
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		<title>What Does God Want From Me?!  What Does He Want From You?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My eldest son came to me after taking a shower.  He walked up to me and put his arms around me, and said, &#8220;I love you, Daddy.&#8221;  My heart is so warmed by those four words, especially from him, as he is the child with whom I struggle the most.  What does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Form of the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m operating under restrictions, I definitely feel constrained by them, but without those restraints, it doesn&#8217;t seem as if I my actions are actually accomplishing anything.
&#8230;the Net truly is vast and infinite. Who knows, maybe a new society we&#8217;ve never even dreamed of is already being born
I greatly enjoy Japanese anime.  There is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080523/252</link>
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		<title>Lean Solves Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, not really, but it sure applies to things I haven&#8217;t thought of.  The company I work for is an enthusiastic applier of lean thinking methodology, and so I&#8217;ve tried to keep an eye on the thought process, and the ideas of those who have implemented it, or help others implement it. Kevin Meyer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080522/251</link>
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		<title>Writing Love on Their Arms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing Love on Their Arms is a somewhat disturbing read.  Yet, at the same, one of great hope and joy.  We in the church are often, rightly (especially when history is taken into account, but a little less now), accused of staying away from sinners1, instead of joining with them and loving them.
Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080510/250</link>
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		<title>Not Enough Foolishness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sermon for 2 April 2008.
This is not the first &#8220;sermon&#8221; I have delivered, but it is the only one that I have video and audio of.  If you wish to torture yourself, here are the links:
Not Enough Foolishness (Audio Only: MP3)

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		<title>Why Fix It When You Can Get a New One?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Churches Needed to Combat &#8216;Evangelistic Deficit&#8217; in U.S. displays the epitome of the American consumer culture.  Why fix, help, change, or repair something if it&#8217;s easier (and/or cheaper) to get a new one?]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080330/248</link>
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		<title>Dry Facts Do Not Explain Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In &#8216;Living Together&#8217; Before Marriage a Statistical Risk, it is rightfully argued that doing so is significantly more likely to not lead to a strong and lasting marriage.
While that is statistically correct (and I am opening my heart and life to the web here, not the most comfortable thing), it isn&#8217;t 100% correct.  My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080330/247</link>
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		<title>Teaching the Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That led her to join a nine-month process known in the Catholic Church as RCIA, or Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults.
Churches open doors to more converts
In the Nazarene Church, we go through a membership class which lasts a few weeks.  In the Lutheran Church, the same.  However, these classes do not truly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080323/245</link>
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		<title>“Missional” refers to purposeful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a little ad for a conference of Lifeway Ministries, I pulled out a little tidbit that struck me, especially within the context of the Emerging/Emergent/Missional Church conversations that are being had within the Christian community.
“Missional” refers to purposeful.
I have thought that much of the &#8220;missional&#8221; discussion seemed off-kilter somehow, but I couldn&#8217;t put my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080319/243</link>
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		<title>Bearing the Silence of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Bearing the Silence of God, Ziya Meral talks about the spiritual state of believers in the midst of persecution.  Specifically, he speaks in regards to persecution by Muslims, but this goes on around the world, even in &#8220;Christian&#8221; nations.
What amazes me is how similar his feelings seem to be to Mother Teresa&#8217;s.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080319/244</link>
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		<title>Rediscovering Sabbath Rest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Rediscovering Sabbath Rest, Mark Early brings further attention to the &#8220;Secular Sabbath&#8221; that seems to be gaining steam in the secular world.
As I mentioned in What? Me, Unplug?, I know I should try this myself.  I&#8217;m always plugged in, even on Sunday.
I remember years ago hearing about how even non-devout Christian families would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080318/242</link>
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		<title>&#8230;(drool)&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it is not very Christian to want something, but COME ON&#8230;5 horsepower to go 60mph!

hattip: Flixxy]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080314/241</link>
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		<title>Missional Church Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his article, What Makes a Church Missional?, J. Todd Billings does a decent (although, by necessity, not very in depth) analysis of the concept of the &#8220;Missional Church.&#8221;
It is fairly balanced, I think.  The biggest thing is not that the concept of Missional Church (as currently described is a few decades old) is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080305/240</link>
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		<title>Economist &#8800; Socialogist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his post, Why data matters, on the Official Google Blog, Hal Varian writes about the &#8220;wisdom of the crowds.&#8221;
Mr. Varian needs to check the Google Zeitgeist.  The wisdom of the crowds?  Sounds like the wisdom of the mob (not the Mob).]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080304/238</link>
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		<title>What? Me, Unplug?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great blog post by brought these three articles to my attention:

Less Television and Computer Gaming May Keep Children Slimmer. Granted, this is kind of a &#8220;duh,&#8221; however, the reason may not be what you think.
An Email Free Day
I Need a Virtual Break, No, Really.

What I find interesting in the last article is the term [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080304/237</link>
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		<title>What About Pain?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Calling on the Saints, Heather Gemmen Wilson talks about faith, family (both personal and church), love and forgiveness, and all in the context of the aftermath of being raped.
I hope every church, including my own (including me, for that matter), can respond in such love to another&#8217;s hurt.  I would also hope that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ekklesiaproject.org &#8211; Telephones and What is Good for Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Telephones and What is Good for Us, Randy Cooper writes about the Amish.  My big takeaway was this:
It took all summer for them to decide whether they would have phones.  They finally decided against it.  And they had two reasons.  First, they knew that if they began to use telephones, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selfishness and Going It Alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, &#8220;Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?&#8221; He answered them, &#8220;What did Moses command you?&#8221; They said, &#8220;Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.&#8221; And Jesus said to them, &#8220;Because of your hardness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Just The Americans, Then?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Archbishop of Canterbury, as I&#8217;m sure many are aware, has declared that Sharia law should be officially endorsed in England.  Unofficially it is endorsed, but by being officially endorsed there is a huge potential for disaster.  However, regardless of the lawful/lawlessness that would result, the fact that the man who is, for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080209/232</link>
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		<title>A Take on Generosity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A politician, like you and me, can be generous only with his own money.  A politician spending other people&#8217;s money is, at best, implementing sound policies &#8211; and, more realistically, much closer to a burglar who &#8220;generously&#8221; uses part of his booty to buy rounds of drinks for his buddies.
Cafe Hayek: Who&#8217;s Generous?
Don Boudreaux [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080209/234</link>
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		<title>Atheism and Violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Father Edward T. Oakes has written an awesome piece on the First Things blog, Atheism and Violence.  It is a long hard read, but very worthwhile.
This addresses a number of posts I&#8217;ve made, most recently in The Chickens are Coming Home to Roost, and should, I think address Allen&#8217;s point in his comment on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080205/231</link>
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		<title>What DO We Believe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;most Christians do not understand what they believe, why they believe it, and why it matters. How can a Christianity that is not understood be practiced?
Unity in Diversity
Chuck Colson, no matter how you may feel about him and his past, has made an excellent point here.  This goes directly toward the heart of much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080205/229</link>
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		<title>Log Into Another Session On Terminal Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I log into my computer at work (I am blessed to be telecommuting 3+ days a week) using Remote Desktop Connection.  During various internet burps, or other connection issues, I&#8217;ve ended up reconnecting to the server using another session, meaning all the stuff I was working on is inaccessible.  I discovered this by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080205/230</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Look at Me; Look At HIM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lou Braun writes:
I have had some negative experiences with Christians as well, but what I have found liberating is not focusing on people who claim to follow Jesus, but rather look to follow Jesus myself. A lot of people hate religion, maybe even church, but I don’t know many who despise Jesus.
I don&#8217;t want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080201/228</link>
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		<title>You Go, Squirrel!</title>
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		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080201/227</link>
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		<title>JFJ: Holding The Mirror For Christians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Brickner&#8217;s latest article, Jesus and His People, is a good mirror, from a Messianic Jewish perspective, of evangelical Christians.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080129/224</link>
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		<title>The Divide Between &#8220;Mainline&#8221; and &#8220;Evangelical&#8221; Needs to be Bridged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick Warren often strikes me as a tad shallow.  However, I am beginning to understand his point of view, somewhat.  In this interview in Christian Today, he speaks about how the split in perspective between the two churches has hurt both, and by default the mission of Christ.
This dovetails nicely into a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080128/223</link>
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		<title>Joel Osteen And Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay,  I have to admit that Joel Osteen kind of gives me the creeps.  However, I also have to admit that his interview in Christian Today is worthy of kudos.  I wish a lot of churches would have his same perspective.  While he still rubs me the wrong way, I will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080128/222</link>
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		<title>The Return of the Monster Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online is not someone I would expect to be a monster movie fan, but I was wrong.  His review of the new movie Cloverfield is very interesting.  I wasn&#8217;t even slightly interested in seeing it, but his review has caused me to rethink that.  I may not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080127/221</link>
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		<title>The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bunch of drunk teenagers vandalized a site once inhabited by the American poet Robert Frost.  In A Violation of Both Law and the Spirit, Dan Barry seems offended that these, for lack of a better word, punks didn&#8217;t show respect to history or elders.
These punks are a direct result of a bunch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080127/220</link>
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		<title>The War On Scientology Has Begun (Humor, I think)</title>
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		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080125/219</link>
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		<title>Government Says Chinese Need More &#8220;Spiritual&#8221; Content.  Say What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This shows that the Hubei People&#8217;s Radio and Television Station&#8217;s propaganda and management abilities have serious flaws which are in urgent need of rectification,&#8221; it added.
But the station got away with merely a &#8220;criticism,&#8221; the statement said, without explaining why the punishment was so light.
&#8220;Provide more and better spiritual food for the masses,&#8221; it added [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20080124/218</link>
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		<title>Thanks for Not Taking More of MY Money!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some day, the lawmakers may figure out an efficient way to fix the A.M.T. permanently and make up for the billions in revenue it brings in. That will not happen this year, but Wednesday afternoon’s vote was still good news for millions.
The New York Times: House Votes to Spare Millions From Tax
How about the Flat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071219/217</link>
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		<title>Turn Off the Lights for Your Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in August, I wrote about light pollution.  I can even still remember the night sky that caused me to write it.
Yesterday, a blog post appeared on the Clampham Institute website discussing the detrimental links between artificial light and cancer (hattip to: The Point).  Apparently, in the same article in the New Yorker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071219/215</link>
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		<title>Shame Should Have Been Outweighed By Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I may be a right-wing fanatic Christian to some.  I may be a clueless emotional liberal Christian to others.  The truth is that Jesus Christ loves us, not because of who we are, or what we&#8217;ve done, but because of who He is (paraphrased, &#8220;I Surrender All&#8221;, Newsboys).
With the &#8220;traditional&#8221; family as the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071219/216</link>
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		<title>Calculate Your Fair Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans for Fair Taxation has released a calculator that will help you determine how much your purchasing power will change (usually improving) were the Fair Tax implemented.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071218/214</link>
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		<title>Even Dumb (or Bad) Movies Can Make You Think</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his review of   I Am Legend, Todd Hertz says:
It&#8217;s an interesting direction for a movie about the impact of scientific advancement. So what is it saying about science and God? That scientific advances foolishly allow man to play God? Or that science is comparable to that fast car capable of good or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071214/213</link>
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		<title>All Of The Holidays With None Of The Religious Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m all for the freedom of religion (or free not to believe).  In fact, I think the right thing to do would be for governments (you know, where it says in the U.S. Constitution freedom from religion) to provide a number of floating holidays, thus allowing Muslims or Jews, or whatever other religion to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071211/212</link>
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		<title>Men and Marriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Insurance companies are pushing hard for for peopl to take care of themselves with various wellness initiatives.  For men, on of the biggest is marriage:
Marriage Could Save Your Life
hattip to:The Point
Marriage is also good for the environment
However, there are a few downsides.

Mercifully, God has granted me a wonderful marriage to a wonderful wife, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071205/211</link>
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		<title>They Just WISH The Church Was Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of discussion floating around that the &#8220;traditional&#8221; church is dead, and that it will be replaced by the (not yet completely uniformly defined) &#8220;emerging&#8221; church.  The New Attitude blog has something to say regarding that, and it is well worthwhile to read.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071203/210</link>
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		<title>Pray, Tell! What Does The Future Hold?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been articles, commentaries, blogs (of which I&#8217;m adding to, of course), podcasts, and what have you, about the imminent demise of the church.
Sorry, but it has been all said before.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071203/207</link>
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		<title>War is not pretty and neat, nor is life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired has an article that I hope a lot of people pay attention to for many reasons.  As a telecommuter, I understand the disassociation that can occur between telecommuter and company, often mere in perception, not reality.
Back when the first Bush was president he started the &#8220;downsizing&#8221; of &#8220;soft&#8221;-intelligence work.  In other words, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071127/209</link>
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		<title>Armed and Polite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Munchkin Wrangler has posted Why the Gun is Civilization.  I think I&#8217;m getting to the point (Thanks, Allen) to where politics, even the 2nd Amendment, aren&#8217;t nearly as important as they used to be.
That is not to say that they are unimportant to me, but the longer I walk along the Way, God&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071118/206</link>
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		<title>Choose: Red, White, and Blue OR Red Versus Blue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I freely acknowledge that for a certain branch of the family, I am the red sheep (not the black sheep) of the family.  I also suspect that my faith in Jesus Christ plays a greater roll in my life than  the lives of others in my family (this is neither red nor blue). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071114/205</link>
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		<title>The Whole Money Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Me and Ron Paul and The Dollar is Falling! The Dollar is Falling!, I discussed central banking and the currency base.
However, in 800 Dollar Gold in Plain English ( archived copy ), Jerry Bowyer adds a little more to the discussion.  His primary point is that the theories being pushed in support of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071114/203</link>
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		<title>Thank You, God!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God has provided blessings innumerable.  Sin has brought curses to counter the blessings.  Being thankful is being humble, which is probably why so few are thankful (that includes me).
Thanksgiving Day in America &#8211; The Secret Riches of Thankfulness by Rev. Michael Bresciani ( archived copy )]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071110/201</link>
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		<title>The Dollar is Falling! The Dollar is Falling!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Me and Ron Paul, I knocked some of the historical basis for the assault on the Federal Banking System.  While I still believe that a central system does need to exist, Thomas Breton&#8217;s article, Chickens Are Returning to the Roost, may cause me to modify my perspective somewhat.  While I still believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071110/200</link>
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		<title>Will Racism Return?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article at the New York Times discusses the rising specter of racism and prejudice based on genetics.  The writer points out some blog postings and comments that are disturbing.  That being said, there is something to be said about self-imposed homogeneity, especially in business&#8230;failure.  I don&#8217;t want to see organizations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071110/199</link>
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		<title>The Quiet (some say silenced) Side of Anthopogenic Climate Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KLTV had an interesting segment on one of their news shows recently about anthropogenic global warming.  I wish I could embed it in this post, but they make it rather difficult, so here is the link.
Hat Tip to: NewsBusters.org ]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071110/198</link>
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		<title>The New City Transit System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A professor at MIT has come out with a design for a individual/public-transit concept, with cars for rent on every corner.  Frankly, sounds like one of the many sci-fi books I&#8217;ve read over the years, but as a victim of mass transit, I can certainly understand this concept as a better than nothing situation.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071110/197</link>
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		<title>My Anger Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do I get angry? Yes!  Is that a good thing? In retrospect, probably not.  Should we encourage people to be angry? NO! (that&#8217;s not anger, that&#8217;s emphasis)
Apparently, some well-meaning (hmm, something about a road&#8230;) Christian psychologists are saying it&#8217;s okay to be angry.  Well, I suppose that in some situations it might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071106/195</link>
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		<title>Atlas Shrugged&#8230;Thanks to Hercules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just going to ignore the whole Ayn Rand/Atlas Shrugged anniversary thing, but this article, by Maggie Gallagher, finally caused me to mouth off.
The thing that has always bothered me about Ayn Rand&#8217;s stuff was that it was too individualistic.  Even in the building of the dream house (I can&#8217;t remember the main [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071106/194</link>
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		<title>Art of the Outcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
All too often we look at those around us who are in different circles and unconsciously dismiss them as not adding to our live.

An art exhibit in London exemplifies this.  (archived copy)
We all have our expectations of a &#8220;productive&#8221; member of society.  The problem is that art like this is only displayed under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071102/192</link>
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		<title>On the MSM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite what you might think from reading my blog, I don&#8217;t want the mainstream media to fade away.  I think the MSM thinks of itself as the &#8220;fourth branch of government,&#8221; thus, like many bureaucracies, is unable to change quickly.  That is a major problem in the internet age, where 1 year is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071102/190</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s for the children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This could be funny&#8230;well, it is&#8230;sort of&#8230;in a very sick and twisted sort of way&#8212;in a big government, nanny-state sort of way.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071030/189</link>
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		<title>Rightly Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The left would have us believe that to be an environmentalist you have to believe in catastrophic threats, dramatic increases in government power and economically draconian solutions. Such a big-government bureaucracy, trial-lawyer-litigation and excessive-regulation &#8220;environmentalism&#8221; does a poor job of protecting the environment while it erodes individual freedom, destroys jobs and weakens our country.
The time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071030/188</link>
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		<title>Movies as Peeping Toms (or Janes) ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you peek through someone&#8217;s window at a couple that are making love, it&#8217;s against the law &#8212; you&#8217;d be thrown in jail as a pervert. And yet we peep through a screen of window called a movie screen, and then it becomes alright. It&#8217;s not alright!
Ray Comfort, Living Waters Ministries
I have to admit that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071026/187</link>
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		<title>Oh, but for conventional wisdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have all heard how horribly our students are doing in comparison to the rest of the world.  According to a new study, that&#8217;s old news&#8212;and wrong news.
According to this article (archived copy) in Business Week, our public schools are now near the top in the world.  That is certainly not how it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071026/186</link>
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		<title>It can&#8217;t be the behavior!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article floating around the web misses the true fact of the story (Hey, the AP and the UN have to keep their record consistent.)  The United Nations in its anti-Christian tirade attacks the Roman Catholic church blaming them for opposing condoms.  The problem is that the United Nations forgot to attack the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071023/185</link>
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		<title>Who are you, really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not a rhetorical or philosophical question, but an internet question.  One of the greatest things about the internet is its basic anonymity.  The greatest weakness of the internet is its basic anonymity.  Don&#8217;t misunderstand me, the internet is not even closely anonymous as many perceive it to be.
I recently received [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071023/184</link>
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		<title>The Information Superhighway? Bah, Humbug!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is SO much MORE!  Michael Wesch of Kansas State University created a little video, Information R/evolution, that is spreading through out the web.  The phrase &#8220;information superhighway&#8221; should be tossed out, for as Mr. Wesch points out, the information is not, and must not be, so constrained.

hattip to: Duncan Riley @ TechCrunch/span>
Plus, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071021/183</link>
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		<title>Freedom to Choose&#8230;Your Clothes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I have issues with people&#8217;s decisions on what clothes they wear, I have no intention of beating them or killing them.  In Iraq, currently, there people being beaten and killed because of the clothes they wear (or don&#8217;t wear), and even hairstyles.  Now I believe that a community should decide what &#8220;decency&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071010/182</link>
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		<title>Who Grew My Food?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I have to admit succumbing to the marketing part of this, but it is pretty cool.  Using a code on the label of a banana, you can see where that banana was grown, and who grew it.  That is pretty slick.  I understand the mantra of buy local, and living in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20071002/181</link>
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		<title>That Was Totally Wicked!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An unabashed stealing of a line from my eldest son&#8217;s favorite movie (The Incredibles) is the only thing I can say to describe the fastest production model car in the world.


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		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070928/180</link>
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		<title>Me and Ron Paul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Ron Paul closing speech was recently posted at Right Mind (Religious Right Boos Ron Paul).  I tried to post my entire response to Ron Paul&#8217;s speech there, but I guess I wrote too much.  Anyways, here is my opinion on the matter.


While I agree with Ron Paul&#8217;s sentiments regarding limited government, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070921/179</link>
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		<title>Endarkened By God To Be The Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If at a certain point she almost does not speak of this night anymore, it is not because it was over, but because she had learned to live within it. Not only had she accepted it, but she recognized the extraordinary grace that it held for her. &#8220;I have begun to love my darkness, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070919/178</link>
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		<title>Today is Constitution Day (220th anniversary of the completion and signing of the Constitution)</title>
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		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070917/177</link>
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		<title>Only at the Feet of Jesus Do We Learn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is currently an emphasis in the Church of the Nazarene (CotN) to make disciples of Christ.  The CotN&#8217;s new mission statement is, &#8220;To make Christlike disciples in the nations.&#8221; Bishop Nkulu Ntanda Ntambo of the Methodist Church recently delivered a sermon to the Methodist Assembly, and he speaks to the same truth:
Money is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070913/176</link>
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		<title>Are You Powerless?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people are powerless, they are easily manipulated.-Rashid Rehman, human rights lawyerfrom the article &#8220;Pakistan&#8221;, National Geographic, September 2007
I hear about the powerlessness of certain people, and every time, it irritates me.  I know that sounds strange, but the truth is, we are only as powerless as we allow ourselves to be.  This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070908/175</link>
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		<title>How Not to Make a Cleaner Environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was slashdotted today, and I can see why: Dirty Secret—Green Cars Automakers Won&#8217;t Sell You (Archived Copy)
Not only can&#8217;t you buy one, but the government says it&#8217;s currently illegal for automakers to sell these green cars outside of the special states. Under terms of the Clean Air Act—in the kind of delicious irony only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070904/174</link>
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		<title>A Moment of Silence for A Moment of Silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois vetoed a &#8216;moment of silence&#8217; bill for students (Archived Copy).  Now, oddly enough, I find that it doesn&#8217;t bother me that much.  Why?  It is not the &#8220;separation of church and state&#8221; that has been misinterpreted for so long.  Partly, it is the coercive nature of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070903/173</link>
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		<title>A Good Reason for a Priest/Pastor Not to Marry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From an AP Article (archived copy):

Clergymen struggling to comfort the afflicted in New Orleans are finding they, too, need someone to listen to their troubles.
Almost every local Episcopal minister is in counseling, including Bishop Charles Jenkins himself, who has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
&#8230;Roman Catholic priests have not reported any unusual counseling needs, said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070831/171</link>
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		<title>Bye-Bye, Bell?  Hello, Well?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading recently about the apparent nature of society changing from a bell-curve model (that the majority are in the center) to a well-curve model (where the minority is the middle).  I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that whomever is making this determination is off their rocker.
What we have is a whole lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070831/169</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started paying attention to the &#8220;Emerging Church&#8221; movement, which is an attempt to redefine the Christian community of faith.  There are a lot of issues within that particular movement, but don&#8217;t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
There are groups within groups within groups (and then some) within the Emerging Church movement.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil going bye-bye?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once thing that I didn&#8217;t mention in my post, Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory Versus Logic,  is the over-the-top screaming that is going on in regards to climate change and alternative energy sources.  This makes reasonable discussion almost impossible.  In the attempt to (too) quickly get off of petroleum based fuels, ethanol has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory Versus Logic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. S. Fred Singer (Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia) recently outlined the logical flaws being espoused by those who speak of global warming (which is in error, as the recent snowfall in South Africa shows, and thus should be called, &#8220;global climate change&#8221;) as being caused by man (i.e., anthropogenic).
Part of the problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invading Corporate America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian E. Volck, in his post Are You Being Served?, states:
As John Sayles’ role in the movie Matewan suggests, big businesses have used clergy as cheerleaders before, but this news item from The Economist hints at something worse.
The article: Praying for Gain: A fad for piety infiltrates the realm of Mammon
I am completely at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come to the Lord empty.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a great piece written by John Koesler, Eat, Drink, and Be Hungryarchived copy, on ChristianityToday.com.  Sometimes I wonder if the Beatitudes really say what we think they mean, regardless of that underlying current of though in my own mind, I think this is a wonderful way of looking at the Beatitudes, life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070818/165</link>
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		<title>Turn off the lights!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few nights, while waiting for the dog to finish his last bit of business before going to bed, I&#8217;ve been looking up into the sky, staring at the starts.  They&#8217;re beautiful.  I grew up in the SF Bay Area, and the only time I saw a true plethora of stars, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070815/163</link>
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		<title>This makes me sick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish that I couldn&#8217;t believe that someone wouldn&#8217;t stoop to this level.
Fight Over Wrestler Chris Benoit&#8217;s Estate Hinges on Order of Deaths]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070815/162</link>
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		<title>Mothering from the middle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;this is not about politics, although I suppose it is.  Betsy Hart has a reasonable view of being a mom, and her column today is well worth the read.archived copy]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070815/164</link>
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		<title>Wherefore art thou male?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Mistakes We Make with Priestly Vocations, Fr. Philip N. Powell discusses something new in the Roman Catholic church, women serving in the place of pastors, not as pastors, but &#8220;Parish Life Coordinators.&#8221;  Fr. Powell makes some wonderful points that are well worth considering.
The primary scripture used to bar women from leadership positions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell me, Neuromancer, what does the future hold?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William Gibson, if you are not aware, invented the term cyberspace, and frankly, much of the perceived culture that accompanies it.  He foresaw much of what we have today, but he now feels that the future is in such flux that it cannot be predicted.  He recently did an interview with silicon.com that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaping What Was Sown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few decades back, it was decided that public mental institutions needed to be phased out.  Not to save taxpayer money, not to have the private sector do it, but to be compassionate to those with mental health issues.  As Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley noted in his Breakpoint Commentary today, Bedlam: Prisons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Porn Myth (on Challies Dot Com)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[as posted (authored by) Challies Dot Com.  I could add more, but why, when someone has said it so well.  Despite the imagery of Naomi Wolf&#8217;s article, and despite Challies&#8217; well-founded attack on porn in relation to sin, I realized, while reading her article, that I have been blessed by not growing like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raid on Jefferson&#8217;s Office CONSTITUTIONAL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to avoid blogging as it&#8217;s a great procrastination tool.  However, the latest news on the District Courts ruling (here is the decision) is the raid on Rep. Jefferson&#8217;s office was unconstitutional.  READ THE DECISION FIRST, before writing STUPID, MISLEADING, and flat out WRONG headlines!
Even the dissenting judge ruled that the raid was constitutional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070803/152</link>
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		<title>A Return to &#8220;Containment&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent agreement by the Bush Administration to supply updated military (even if outdated by our standards) to &#8220;our&#8221; &#8220;moderate&#8221; Arab &#8220;allies&#8221; really bothers me.  Jim Lobe&#8217;s article at Asia Times Online,  US arms for Arab authoritarians &#8211; again, touches on many of my concerns.  My greatest concern that in an attempt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070801/148</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In A Reporter’s Loss of Faith, I linked to an article by William Lobdell, who had experienced a loss of faith based on his reporting of the failures of the church (as a whole).  In Sorrow But No Regrets, Christine Scheller writes of her bad (foul is more like it) experiences with the church. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070725/146</link>
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		<title>The U.S.: The SOFT Target</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before the Dems and far too many Republicans, decided that the war they supported is now unsupportable, I would not have considered the U.S. a &#8220;soft&#8221; target, even during the Clinton years.  However, in comparing the U.S. to other potential targets, perhaps we are soft after all.
The Belmont Club: Another Satan Emerges]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070724/145</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Such Thing As a Free Lunch&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;as Wisconsin citizens may soon learn.
Escape Wisconsin: Fraters Libertas
How TO: Make Minnesota Grow Faster « SCSUScholars
Cheese Headcases « OpinionJournal]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070724/144</link>
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		<title>Harry Potter and the Christian Muggles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honestly, I&#8217;m kind of sick of people yammering about how awful Harry Potter is and how good The Lord of the Rings, and the Narnia series are.  Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) had to be told (by C.S. Lewis, the author of the Narnia series, I believe) that the Lord of the Rings was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070724/143</link>
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		<title>Why do I need to know who my mom is, anyways?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Motherless in Maryland, James M. Thunder writes about a disturbing story where a child&#8217;s mother (plus, there are two potential mothers) will not be listed on her birth certificate, in fact, there will be no mother listed at all.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070723/142</link>
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		<title>A Reporter&#8217;s Loss of Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William Lobdell has written an article, Religion beat became a test of faith, and it boils down to him seeing the worst of those who claim the faith, thereby destroying his.  Sadly, I understand his perspective and the journey that he has taken.  He has seen some of the worst of the Roman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070721/141</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Hear the Other Side</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Health Care Lie: &#8216;47 Million Uninsured Americans&#8217;]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070720/140</link>
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		<title>The Computing Cocoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Are Computers Causing us to &#8220;Cocoon&#8221; Ourselves?, WXPNews editor Deb Shinder questions as to whether we are really cocooning ourselves, and whether its really bad.  I think she makes, not intentionally, another point in my Technological Enervation zeitgeist, our rationalization and justification]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070720/139</link>
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		<title>Hit me.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may or may not be a fan of Chuck Colson, but in his 18 July 2007 Breakpoint Commentary, Gorging On Politics, he makes a number of points regarding the flaw of the Information Age, the need to CREATE information to maintain flow and interest.  He mentions Jacques Ellul&#8217;s book, The Political Illusion, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070720/136</link>
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		<title>Nope, he doesn&#8217;t quite get it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each person who can make something with his hands prefers to make something small and concrete rather than uniting with others to change lives.
Vladmir Arkhipov
from:MAKE: Blog: Contemporary Russian folk artifacts
Now, if Mr. Arkhipov were correct, the Christian community in China wouldn&#8217;t be expanding at the rate it is.  Perhaps those under the U.S.S.R. rule [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070720/138</link>
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		<title>It takes a village to build a nation.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of good story items out there today regarding the situation in Iraq.  Ambassador Ryan Cocker (see FOXNews for complete article) was grilled by a Senate committee today, and here are some quotes:
If there is one word, I would use to sum up the atmosphere in Iraq — on the streets, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070720/137</link>
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		<title>Technological Enervation defined, I think</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve almost gotten the definition I&#8217;ve been looking for.  Tell me what you think.
tech·no·log·i·cal en·er·va·tion [tek-nuh-loj-i-kuhl i-nur-vi-shuhn]
The process whereby human interaction is negatively affected by technology, creating disconnection, alienation, malaise, and depression, and attempts to create relationships damaged or non-existent due to technology using technology (vicious cycle)]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070716/135</link>
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		<title>Discernment Needed.  Desparately. NOW!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no problem believing that there are artificial and manipulated “miracles,” any more than I have believing in genuine miracles and other supernatural phenomena. In the same way, I believe in the existence of fallen angels, demonization, and exorcism as much as I believe that there are some mental and psychological disorders that should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070710/134</link>
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		<title>And the Atheists Don&#8217;t have it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his column, Why Are Atheist Books Best Sellers?, Dennis Prager gets a lot of it right, but I think there is something else going on.
In our Technological Enervation and secular arrogance, I believe people without faith are jealous of ones who do have it.  We with faith have an anchor in life outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070709/133</link>
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		<title>Yes! Wait a minute, NO!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good way to have a timeout and provide an opportunity for Ann to continue to teach &#8230;
Redding said she didn&#8217;t feel a need to reconcile all the differences between the two faiths but felt that at the most basic level, they are compatible.
She believes she has not violated any of her baptismal or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070709/132</link>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Love In Human Arms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daily Meditation (Henri Nouwen): A Father&#8217;s As Well As a Mother&#8217;s Love
The father in the story of the prodigal son is mother as well. His running out to welcome his son, his embrace and kisses; his offering of the best robe, the ring, and the sandals; and his throwing a party are not the typical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come see my website&#8230;wait&#8230;I mean my video&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In her article,]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070709/127</link>
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		<title>Methinks he Protestants too much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My other concern is Mautin&#8217;s notion of Christian leadership. If the priest faces the altar as a sign of leadership it means his back is to the people. For a Brit this is culturally rude -perhaps it isn&#8217;t in other places. But it codifies a sense of &#8216;Catch up with me.&#8217; The leader on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070709/131</link>
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		<title>An Old Soldier&#8217;s Advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is distressing for me to realize that Christ died for the terrorists, too. As violent and anti-Christian as they are, Jesus died for even them. So how do we balance that awareness with the job of killing them? I don&#8217;t have a well-developed answer for that one. I never got to the point that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070708/130</link>
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		<title>Why I am not a good ethicist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author: Fr. Jonathan Tobias
It would say, too, that the Islamization of Europe calls not for a Crusade, but for repentance … and this for the simple reason that any prophet, like Amos, would have no trouble recognizing the new Islamic Jihad for what it really is: another incarnation of the Assyrians, a harbinger and agent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Salvation: The place of Christianity in public life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author: Albert J. Raboteau
Source: Boston Review]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070707/128</link>
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		<title>Who are you? What do you want?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These two very basic questions are the pivot points around which the first 4 seasons of Babylon 5 (Wikipedia entry) revolve.  As we learn in Season 4, it is the fact that these questions are not asked together is what is causing the war that is going on at that point in the series.
Mark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking to Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had some friends over for the 4th of July, and let me tell you, it&#8217;s great having friends.  Right?  Well one of the hard parts for me, is that I need personal interaction with a person to have them be a friend.  It can&#8217;t be email.  It can&#8217;t be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070704/125</link>
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		<title>Silence Versus Distraction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In here, Mr. Garibaldi, you cannot hide from yourself.  Everything out there has only one purpose, to distract us from ourselves, from what is truly important.  There are no distractions in here.  You can learn much from silence.
Citizen G&#8217;kar&#8220;Messages From Earth&#8221; Babylon 5, Season 3

Have you ever heard, &#8220;We&#8217;re too busy&#8221;?  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070630/118</link>
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		<title>Do you understand yet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Muslim speaks at my church]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070629/123</link>
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		<title>THIS is what the 1st Amendment is about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As much as many of us of the so-called &#8220;religious right&#8221;, decry the attack on our faith in the public square, at least we here in the United States aren&#8217;t experiencing what our faithful brethren in Europe are experiencing.]]></description>
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		<title>Culture.  What purpose have you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe Thomas Sowell is one of those people that brings great insight in regards to the human condition.  In his commentary, Cultural Heritages, he talks about what is a fundamental flaw of certain people&#8217;s perception of culture.  His particular example, the Navajo, is only one of may that can used, if one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070628/121</link>
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		<title>So you want to fly?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife sent me this article which discusses eagles in the Bible, and in life.  It also alludes to how the eagle represents the ideal of our life in Christ.
Eagles
 hat tip to:My Wife, of course!
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		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070628/119</link>
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		<title>Light as a metaphor for God.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to an interesting commentary by Regis Nicoll, comparing the nature of light to the nature of God, or at least, an aspect of God.

Light and the Nature of God
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		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070628/120</link>
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		<title>The Fruits As Witness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070619/149</link>
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		<title>The Church Everlasting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Pope Benedict XIV believes] the church is not a product of human creativity.  She does not become whatever the leaders and members wish to make of her. The church is prior to all human initiative. Ours is not to innovate, but to preserve and apply the church teachings.
-Avery Cardinal Dulles

I&#8217;m glad that Pope Benedict, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070618/117</link>
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		<title>He Bids Ye Come&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come Ye, Sinners]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070618/116</link>
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		<title>Absurdium Ad Naseaum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Episcopal priest says she&#8217;s also a Muslim
SEATTLE (AP) &#8211; The Reverend Ann Holmes Redding, an Episcopal priest for 20 year, says she became a Muslim last year, but still considers herself a Christian as well. Redding, who says she accepted Islam after being profoundly moved by Muslim prayers, is to begin teaching the New Testament [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here I Stand, Hat In Hand&#8230;Convicted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have written a lot about the Episcopal Church of the USA and, by proxy, other denominations that have lost their way, from my perspective.  I have written about the various issues that have caused (again, from my perspective) their demise as a power of faith in the world and the United States.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070616/114</link>
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		<title>New Worship Styles Un-Becomining?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Galli, in his article Seeker Unfriendly on Christianity Today, writes on the accessibility of worship to the seeker or newcomer. Part of what I like about this article is that it is referring more to modern or contemporary worship styles as being inaccessible, which is exactly the issue the modern/contemporary style was to address, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070615/112</link>
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		<title>Happy International Weblogger’s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is set aside to recognize those who blog (such as yours truly, of course)

Widipedia Entry
The &#8220;Official&#8221; Website, though rather nauseatingly PC, at least for this year&#8217;s theme.


 hat tip to:The Geekend@TechRepublic.com
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		<title>Confusing Sex with Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Either the ever-hated Fox News staff has joined the benighted world, or someone was speaking tongue-in-cheek. I suspect, however, the former.
At the end of his online article regarding Iran&#8217;s proposed fixed-length marital contracts, John Moody writes:
&#8230;love will be served, even if only temporarily.
There is no doubt that this refers to sex, not love, although, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070613/111</link>
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		<title>What About The Star-Bangled Banner?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our National Anthem]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070609/109</link>
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		<title>Further Down The Slippery Slope Of Assisted Suicide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I understand the rationale of Assisted Suicide, but I believe it violates what I believe the purpose of doctors to be&#8230;saving lives.  As someone who has a very personal relationship with depression, I find this article in the Telegraph from March 2007 (yes, I know, rather old to be writing of it) to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070609/108</link>
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		<title>Moving Forward In Context</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a buzz lately (maybe only from my limited perspective), about how many people are going to the older Christian traditions, leaving the &#8220;in style&#8221;, &#8220;contemporary&#8221;, worship modes. I&#8217;ve gotten to the point that the &#8220;modern&#8221; forms of worship no longer bother me as they used, at least in the same way.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070608/107</link>
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		<title>The Aid That Kills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a couple of interesting pieces on Der Spiegle&#8217;s website about aid to Africa, and how it is not helping at all.  In fact, the two pieces discuss how blind compassion is actually hurting, not helping, Africa.  Even I, who some would (wrongly) call a right-wing wacko, took pause at what these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070607/106</link>
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		<title>A Memorial Day Note</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I took our kids to one of the local Memorial Day services.  Granted, I don&#8217;t know who all the people attend were, or how many of their loved ones had died, but it was nice to see others from all walks and places in life there.
One of the things that has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070528/105</link>
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		<title>Education Privitization, Whether You Like It Or Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.K. Telegraph has an interesting article about Indian Companies (as in India) teaching students in the U.K. and U.S.A. via the internet.
hat tip to: RightMind.us
Basically, private tutoring at low cost.  Before someone throws a fit about taking advantage of the &#8220;poor&#8221; ignorant Indians, the story states that most of these poor, ignorant Indians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070523/104</link>
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		<title>Coming Out Christian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just couldn&#8217;t pass up that title. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Denver, Charles J. Chaput, delivered an address to the Path to Peace Foundation seminar “Catholic Students and the Common Good: Building a Better World” in New York today.  It has to be read in its entirety, but here are some highlights:

&#8230;much of American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070522/103</link>
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		<title>Episcopals Should Relearn Excommunication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bishop (ret.) Spong has written a book, Jesus for the Non-Religious.  Spong has disturbed me greatly for many years, although I do have to thank him (and the Episcopal Church), because he opened my eyes to failures of the Episcopal Church, long before all the hubbub surrounding homosexuality.
Jason Lee Steorts has written a piece, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070425/99</link>
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		<title>The Gulf Narrows A Bit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Pope Benedict was still Cardinal Ratzinger, he was call &#8220;God&#8217;s Rottweiler&#8221; (and also, The Enforcer, Panzerkardinal , Cardinal No, and others). He has been tenacious in guarding the Roman Catholic Church, and trying to balance modern and traditional thought of theology. However, in this news story, and based on his words, those, such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070425/97</link>
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		<title>And The Answer Gets An Exclamation Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote &#8220;An Answer, Somewhat&#8230;&#8220;, I was just reading the Bible, and it popped out at me.  Now comes news that the Roman Catholic Church will likely be putting Limbo out of business.  I guess that ends that.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070425/96</link>
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		<title>What Is Forgiveness?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Hollar asks this question, and he provides some very profound, yet simple answers.  He has some especially deep words regarding blame and forgiveness.  I wish I had the wisdom to add to this, but I don&#8217;t.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070425/98</link>
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		<title>An Answer, Somewhat&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to one&#8217;s account when there is no law.
So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone. For just as through one man&#8217;s disobedience the many were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070421/95</link>
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		<title>While Impactful, Still Missing The Mark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cleaning Up La Oroya, an article online at Christianity Today, reports on the team activities of a La Oroya, Peru, based ministry, and an Ohio based ministry, and their pursuit of cleaning up the contamination originating from a local smelter.  Members of the ministries mention how they put pressure on the government of Peru, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070420/93</link>
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		<title>All Hail the Ostriches in Washington, D.C.!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republicans won’t touch this because it would reveal the incompetence of the Bush administration in failing to neutralize the danger of Iraqi WMD. The Democrats won’t touch it because it would show President Bush was right to invade Iraq in the first place. It is an axis of embarrassment.
On (what-are-no-longer) Iraq&#8217;s WMDs ]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070420/94</link>
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		<title>A Familial Truth About Government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a professor of human biology at Baruch College, City University of New York. I sometimes get involved in discussions with ‘gay’ students on issues of biology and homosexuality, but such discussions have always been respectful and educational. For example, a young ‘gay’ man told me he was opposed to all the hatred directed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070416/92</link>
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		<title>Ignore, him, and he will fade away.  Maybe not.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imus has always been a jerk.  The last few days haven&#8217;t changed my opinion.  However, heaping all the publicity on him is doing him GOOD!
Father Jonathan, who blogs at FoxNews.com, has an excellent post discussing the darkest lining (I am talking neither race nor Imus) of this debacle.   This whole situation just goes to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070411/91</link>
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		<title>Out of Balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaker Pelosi&#8217;s visit to Syria is not a serious blow to the president.  Well, perhaps it is.  He has taken &#8220;turn the other cheek&#8221; to its suicidal oversimplified interpretation logical conclusion.  However, that aspect of it is not the purpose of this post.
When a land is in rebellion, it has many rulers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070404/89</link>
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		<title>Oops! I think they missed that part</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.&#8221;
&#8211; Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 81, 1788)]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070404/90</link>
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		<title>Who is the Fourth Beast?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth that shall be different from all the other kingdoms; it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it into pieces.
Daniel 7:23
I was reading Daniel 7:19-27, and it struck me that the United States of America may very well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070402/88</link>
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		<title>Raising Awareness, One Million People At A Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MillionSoulsAware.org is a project that seeks to raise awareness one global issue at a time.  Their mission statement says:
millionsoulsaware.org is a not for profit project started in march 2007 that has the mission to raise awareness by featuring an article on an important topic that needs attention. Millionsoulsaware.org doesn&#8217;t ask for donations, but asks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070328/86</link>
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		<title>Thanks, But We Already Knew That&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephan Hawking spoke at Zellerbach Hall yesterday (original link from Slashdot), and announced his new theory: the universe came from nothing (there is a video—RealPlayer or equivalent needed).
Dr. Hawking, with all due respect, that theory has been around for quite some time now.  My biblical calendar is pretty useless, but I think its about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070314/84</link>
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		<title>Pete Stark &#8211; Atheist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry, but Pete Stark&#8217;s (D-CA) admission that he is an atheist doesn&#8217;t concern me as much as it seems to concern others.  However, other bits in this announcement I find much more interesting.
The SCA said in a press release that Americans without a &#8220;God-belief&#8221; are more distrusted than any other minority group in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070314/83</link>
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		<title>The Risks of Being A Pastor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about this article.  A lot of the issue brought up, don&#8217;t seem particularly surprising.  The biggest issue is burnout, I think.  What pastors need to know, and learn if they don&#8217;t, there must be boundaries between their ministry, and their life.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070313/81</link>
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		<title>What was old, is new, or at least possibly okay&#8230;now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was a member of a Lutheran church for a time, and learned a lot about schismatic views.  Lutherans didn&#8217;t do a lot of things, not because they were unscriptural, but because the Roman Catholics did it.
A lot of the &#8220;non-liturgical&#8221; churches seem to have much of the same perspective as they do not do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070313/80</link>
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		<title>Who is Jesus? All hail, Zeus!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish this was a joke, but apparently some folks are off to revive the Pantheon of Gods of Rome and Greece.  Lucky us.  Of course, just like the &#8220;witchcraft&#8221; and &#8220;druid&#8221; pagans, they are inventing their faith.  Funny, they criticize we Christians for our faith, but here they are.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070313/79</link>
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		<title>The rental cello&#8230; an Israeli story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Treppenwitz says, this is a story to be shared.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070313/78</link>
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		<title>The Dark Side of Capitalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Pope Benedict convicted those in charge of the media, saying: 
I appeal again to the leaders of the media industry to advise producers to safeguard the common good, to uphold the truth, to protect individual human dignity and promote respect for the needs of the family.
What I find interesting is to whom he is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070310/77</link>
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		<title>Bipartisan Hypocrisy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Libertines on all sides.
By Victor Davis
Yep, sadly, that pretty much sums it up.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070310/76</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let Your Ingnorance Lose Your Battle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ignorance of those who oppose the freedom of the 2nd amendment amazes me, along with their seeming determination to learn nothing.  Maybe some will read this, and learn a little bit of something.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070310/75</link>
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		<title>Court Acknowledges What Some Of Us New All Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Court strikes down D.C. ban on guns
Appeals Court Says Gun Ban Violates 2nd Amendment 
The first interesting part of the decision:
We are told by the District that the Second Amendment was written in response to fears that the new federal government would disarm the state militias by preventing men from bearing arms while in actual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070310/74</link>
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		<title>Spiritual Needs Unfulfilled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A sad report regarding the U.S. Army (and presumably the other services as well) having issues fulfilling the Clerical needs of those who serve.  However, a lot of the denominations, both traditional and liberal, are having issue filling their needs.  Part of it is money, as being a pastor (or equivalent) is not as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070310/72</link>
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		<title>Misunderstanding Capitalism and Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this this morning (read the entire article):
There&#8217;s a stereotypical assumption among Christians in the nonprofit world that capitalism means greed or selfishness, and &#8220;therefore has got to be bad,&#8221; says Nash, founder and managing partner of Piper Cove Asset Management LLC. Using goals to measure progress—standard practice in the business world—is seen as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070310/73</link>
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		<title>A Perfect Railroad Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell summarizes the political hijinx of the Scooter Libby affair.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070309/71</link>
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		<title>Gotta Love the VA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mary Katharine Ham&#8217;s column today, Veterans on VA: &#8216;Get the politics outta the system&#8217;
Vets vent at national VFW convention, speaks of veterans&#8217; views of the VA, and by proxy, the situation at Walter Reed.  The veterans&#8217; views are very similar to those I posited in my post, Welcome to Nationalized Health Care.  Sadly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070309/70</link>
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		<title>&#8230;Love Your Neighbor as Yourself&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catherine Claire, in her blog post &#8220;Short on Time&#8211;Short on Compassion&#8220;, talks about a convicting sociological experiment involving seminarians (this is self-convicting as well, I freely, but sadly, admit).
She says in the concluding paragraph of her post:
&#8230;there are other factors in play in altruism, but I thought this one was particularly relevant in the busy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070309/69</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Nationalized Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Familiar with the horrible failures at Walter Reed?  Before jumping on the bandwagon of the &#8220;Destroy Bush&#8221; crowd, understand the failures at Walter Reed are a systemic failure of the military hospital and VA system, and the VA system has been under attack for decades for its failures, so, sorry, this can&#8217;t be pinned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070308/68</link>
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		<title>Are You Saved, or Not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting conversation with someone this weekend.  The first thing asked, as noting differences between traditional Baptist and Nazarene teachings, was the view of salvation.
Serendipitously,  David Gushee, a Baptist minister, wrote in Christianity Today (see the article Jesus and the Sinner&#8217;s Prayer) about revisting the view of salvation.
While I find his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070306/66</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s What I Was Thinking!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Babu Ranganathan has had a wonderful commentary at Conservative Voice (but the article is no longer live, and I have no idea which one of his it is now.) regarding evolution. He brings up a number of serious flaws in the theory.  He also has had a further commentary (which also now seems to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070305/6</link>
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		<title>The Democrat Party.  Home of the Patriotic Terrorist.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greg Gutfeld has coined a new term, &#8220;Patriotic Terrorist&#8221;.  I&#8217;m not sure why he would post it on such a site as the Huffington Post, especially with the hate-filled comments that follow it.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070304/64</link>
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		<title>Another Alternative To Abortion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pro-abortion crowd often brings up abortion as the only alternative to unplanned pregnancies.  Not to be too blunt, but as my grandma once said, &#8220;that is no accident.&#8221;
Chuck Colson, in one of his daily Breakpoint Commentaries, talked about a woman who decided against aborting the child of an unplanned pregnancy.
Through sharing her own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070303/63</link>
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		<title>National Security Court a middle-road solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The United States should establish a National Security Court designed to handle terrorism cases fairly but also in a way that does not jeopardize public safety&#8230;
I have never felt that those who are believed to be terrorists, should have the luxury of the U.S. Court system, for they are an enemy combatant.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070303/62</link>
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		<title>Jesus was [insert skin color, race, ethnicity&#8230;here]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article entitled Exit Interviews at Christianity Today&#8217;s website, and I have to admit I was depressed.  I know we all behave in an unchristian due to often unknown or unrecognized attitudes.
I don&#8217;t feel that it is fair that so much pressure is put onto the &#8220;first&#8221; person of a particular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070303/61</link>
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		<title>What is Lent?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lentan Fare]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070303/60</link>
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		<title>Cars improved the air &#8230; that&#8217;s no bull</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The motto of all environmentalists should be &#8220;Thank goodness for the internal combustion engine.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070303/59</link>
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		<title>Almost Agreeing with Gaddafi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi criticized the world financial system as a dictatorship based on fear&#8230;&#8221;
Disconcerting as it is, I am almost in agreement with Gaddafi.  The stock and futures markets are based on rumors and fear.
As much as everyone wanted to blame the oil companies for the high price of gas, it was the fears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070303/58</link>
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		<title>The Language of Nature, by Steve Talbott</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ o judge from some of the ancient creation narratives, the world arose as a visible manifestation of speech. “In the beginning was the Word,” as it says in John 1:1. First there was formlessness and chaos, and then the divine voice flashed forth like lightning in the darkness. “And God said, Let there be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070303/57</link>
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		<title>Drop the Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came unto Him; and He sat down and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto Him a woman taken in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said unto Him, &#8220;Master, this woman was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070228/55</link>
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		<title>A Commentary On My Own Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Granted, there hasn&#8217;t been much traffic to my blog, but in case there ever is, I figure I ought to put this out there, not so much as a disclaimer (although I supposed it is, is some way), but an explanation of perspective.
A number of my posts in the past, and I&#8217;m sure many more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070228/54</link>
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		<title>Are you a Republican or a Democrat?   Are you a Liberal or a Conservative?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to pop off an answer just like that, but I&#8217;ve realized that not everyone agrees upon the definition of any of those terms. The best way to describe my views quotes God, &#8220;I AM.&#8221;  People will pigeonhole me enough as it is.  I don&#8217;t want to confuse generalizations and stereotypes with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070130/102</link>
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		<title>Look At All the Depressed People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you look around at the stories that are there, you will see an increase in depression, an increase in suicide.  As technology integrates further into our lives, I wonder how much more will happen.
As much as the mainstream media and those of the ideoloigical left and extreme right like to malign religion, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070124/52</link>
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		<title>The Lincoln Legacy &#8212; Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the Lincoln most Americans know is the one who preserved the Union, freed the slaves and founded the Republican Party. A more thorough and dispassionate reading of history, however, reveals that these were silver linings within a dark cloud of constitutional abuse.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070124/51</link>
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		<title>New Terminology: Technological Enervation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided that I needed to come up with a new phrase to describe the issues I see with technology and its effect upon people, and by default, society.  I&#8217;m not sure how to even define it, yet.
I&#8217;ve gone back and tagged/categorized older articles, in addition to newer articles as they come up.
In a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070121/50</link>
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		<title>An end to the stem cell debate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This caught my eye.  People such as myself have been framed as opponents of stem cell research, which is false.  My opposition has been to embryonic stem cell research that KILLS (i.e., destroys embryos).  However, with some recent clarification, it apparently is possible to do embryonic stem cell research without killing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070121/49</link>
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		<title>Post-Christ Church, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think that the post entitled &#8220;Post-Christ Church&#8221; should have been more correctly &#8220;The Post-Savior Church&#8221;.   However, the Church of England may soon earn the title of the Post-Christ Church, due to their Hindu priest.  The part that should, but doesn&#8217;t, utterly astound me is that Mr. Hart believes that he is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20070121/48</link>
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		<title>The Post-Christ Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The installation of Katharine Jefferts Schori  indicates that the Episcopal Church, as a  physical and organizational representation of Jesus Christ, is dead.  Her installation as presiding bishop shows the continual decline of the mainstream churches.
In one of her post-installation interviews (2 Nov 2006 Miami Herald) she says, &#8221;It feels a bit un-Anglican [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061231/47</link>
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		<title>Technology, Humanity, Control (Maybe the Luddites are right)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A survey sponsored by MTV provides some very interesting tidbits regarding the endangered psyche of a technology-savy generation.  Even though I found the comment on religion interesting, it just seemed to be tossed in there, and didn&#8217;t add to the main thrust of the story.
On top of that, an article in Christianity Today discusses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061121/46</link>
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		<title>An Old Voice for a New Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in Christianity Today discusses Wendell Berry&#8217;s view of Christianity and the environment.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061115/45</link>
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		<title>Congress &#8216;07-&#8217;08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve sat on my keyboard (not literally) long enough since my previous post on the Election.  As some may infer from my collection of posts, I&#8217;m not all that thrilled with the election results.  However, I won&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m surprised.  Nor, frankly, am I surprised that the &#8220;Old Guard Media&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061114/44</link>
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		<title>2006 Election &#8220;Fallout&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about this, in truth.  First and foremost, the Republican party lost power in Washington, D.C..  I&#8217;m not sure that is a bad thing.  I still strongly support the war in Iraq, so on that front, I&#8217;m am very worried and disappointed.  However, those that think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061108/43</link>
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		<title>Word Eternal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Revelation 22:13
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Mark 13:31
What do these passages in the bible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061103/42</link>
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		<title>Oil and Water Mix Better Than Politics and Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard of the Michael J. Fox political commercial, I immediately wrote an entry about it, however, I then learned about all the controversy about Rush Limbaugh et al (amazingly I hadn&#8217;t heard about that), and decided to mark my post &#8220;private&#8221; so that I would not add flames to a horribly partisan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061026/41</link>
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		<title>Left/Right Fertility Gap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been mention of a study that found that those that identify themselves politically to the left are not having children at the replacement rate, versus those that identify themselves politically to the right are exceeding the replacement rate.  Here is a woman&#8217;s observations of Harvard, which helps to further illustrate this.
Feeling Sexy At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061024/40</link>
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		<title>What do I see? A company leaving dirt cheap labor country&#8230;to build here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061024/39</link>
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		<title>Careful! Don&#8217;t Eat That Contract!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Foster of InfoWorld&#8217;s GripeLine column has one that truly takes the cake (so to speak). You may just click &#8220;OK&#8221; when installing software, but coming soon to a restaurant near you, you&#8217;ll be saying &#8220;OK&#8221; when you eat the food. Food Critics Beware!
The original article: New Era of The Recipe Burgler at Food &#038; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061024/38</link>
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		<title>And venom spews forth&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mission Congregation Dissolves Without Notice 
Christ Our Lord Anglican Church (currently the front page is the rebuttal to the above)
Washington Post article (sorry, registration required)
There was a time I would have identified myself as an Episcopal.  To be honest, the Episcopal Church (of the USA) has been in trouble for years.  My wife, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061024/37</link>
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		<title>The Just War Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A more historical view of the Just War Theory, which leads me to ask, &#8220;unjust (or just) war according to whom?&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061019/36</link>
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		<title>“Just War Theory” vs. American Self-Defense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting take on Just War, while I generally think the ARI is pigheaded and wrong, and when I do agree with them, it is because the ARI and I got to the same point going different directions.
Read the article by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein in full at The Ayn Rand Institute:
Observe the inversion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061019/35</link>
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		<title>2nd Amendment in Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems, when reading between the lines, that majority of the Iraqi people are being bullied by the various militias that are running around there.  Well, let&#8217;s fix that.  Not with another assault on some training camp, or stronghold, but with the Iraqi people.  I think another error of the Bush Administration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061019/34</link>
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		<title>How we have misunderstood the REAL war&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is in regards to this article:
Op Eds Now More Central in War than Bullets
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun [NY Sun title: The West Must Learn The Public Relations of War]
October 17, 2006
Regardless of what you think of Mr. Pipes otherwise, his analysis regarding this aspect is correct.  I believe it is what Republicans, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061019/33</link>
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		<title>between old and new</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first blog of my new WordPress installation. I am in the process of converting and transferring all my other blog stuff (granted, that isn&#8217;t much).  I haven&#8217;t done much blogging.  I tried Blogger.com, but wasn&#8217;t fond of it.  I decided to try my own server, and installed b2evolution, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20061007/32</link>
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		<title>Ignoring Sin Won&#8217;t Lessen the Pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What needing to feel physical pain, teaches us about the dangers of ignoring sin. 
[24 Oct 2006: Originally, this was a post (in truth, a redirect) that was going to stand on its own.  However, with the continuing fallout from the Gene Robinson issue, I have decided to make a "series" of it, linking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20060804/31</link>
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		<title>Pre-Delete Cruft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cruft is clutter that bogs things down and gets in the way of getting things done. Idea clutter is mostly stuff that we could have gotten rid of to begin with. When you initiate an activity, determine a kill date for it at the same time.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20060727/30</link>
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		<title>Ford Launches Production of Hydrogen Engines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ford is claiming to be the first manufacturer of a hydrogen-fueled auto engine &#8211; a V10.
This is awesome!  Plus, with the recent advance in battery cell technology, move over internal combustion engine.  Competition in the vehicle power plant market.  I love it!]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20060726/29</link>
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		<title>Wiring VoIP to your phone jacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Original Link at LifeHack.org
Engadget&#8217;s Original Linked To content
Additional Information (posted into responses at the above link)
Voxilla &#8211; A VoIP Information Gateway]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20060717/28</link>
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		<title>Humans Can&#8217;t Multitask?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just reading a blog at InfoWorld discussing multitasking versus an uncluttered desktop, and Jon Udell makes a statement that I believe most of us take as truth, &#8220;computers multitask way better than people can&#8221;.  As I was reading words that I had believed moments before, I realized that that is completely false.
Really.
Think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20060717/27</link>
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		<title>Another March Towards Independence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As there always is, there have been a lot of Chicken Little&#8217;&#8217;s running around, on both the right and the left, hollering and moaning about how bad things are.  Some things could be better, but so much could be worse. Despite some people&#8217;&#8217;s attempt to portray the world, with the U.S.A. leading the way, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20060529/26</link>
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		<title>Hope for Haiti?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very happy that Haiti seems, for the moment, to be back on the road to democracy. My only concern is that the seemingly typical reaction of very poor countries to nationalize everything to &#8220;care for the poor&#8221;. It always works in the short term, but rarely (if ever) works in the long time. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20060514/25</link>
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		<title>Faith and Depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing that needs to be covered, even before covering depression, is faith. One of the first misteps is confusing happiness with Christian Joy.
Happines is, as a great many people throughout history have observed, short-lived. As defined in this series of posts, happiness must be short-lived. It is a human pursuit (the United States&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20060216/24</link>
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		<title>What and Wherefore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can someone who has the knowledge that they have been saved in Christ be depressed? Faith is the key. Having faith that Jesus Christ died for your sins is easy, in comparison to living the life that displays that faith.
Someone who hasn&#8221;t survived depression cannot fathom it. Too many people confuse this with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20060215/23</link>
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		<title>ECUSA Disfunction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re familiar with the current hullabaloo surrounding the nomination and subsequent installation of Gene Robinson as a &#8220;Bishop&#8221; in the Episcopal Church, USA. This is my perspective on the matter.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
As a supposedly &#8220;confessing&#8221; church, the ECUSA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20031108/22</link>
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		<title>Why America Outpaces Europe (Clue: The God Factor)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



June 8, 2003


Why America Outpaces Europe (Clue: The God Factor)
By NIALL FERGUSON







XFORD, England — It was almost a century ago that the German sociologist Max Weber published his influential essay &#8220;The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.&#8221; In it, Weber argued that modern capitalism was &#8220;born from the spirit of Christian asceticism&#8221; in its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20030608/21</link>
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		<title>A Penny for Your Thoughts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another one of those forwarded emails that always ends up clogging my inbox. However, obviously, it made me think, so I have added to my website so that others might be similarly affected.
You always hear the usual stories of pennies on the sidewalk being good luck, gifts from angels, etc. This is the first time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20030604/20</link>
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		<title>Guess What Osama?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is one of those many emails I have received regarding 9/11. I don&#8217;t know who put this together, but they deserve a lot of credit

Osama Bin Laden, your time is short;
We&#8217;d rather you die, than come to court.
Why are you hiding if it was in God&#8217;s name?
You&#8217;re just a punk with a turban; a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20030531/19</link>
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		<title>Jesus Really Does Love You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at their church, the Pastor and his 11-year-old son would go out into their town and hand out Gospel tracts.
This particular Sunday afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his son to go to the streets with their tracts, it was very cold outside as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20030531/18</link>
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		<title>Friend or Angel?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, &#8220;Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must really be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20030530/17</link>
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		<title>The Orthodox View of the Eucharist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Holy Eucharist is called the &#8220;sacrament of sacraments&#8221; in the Orthodox tradition. It is also called the &#8220;sacrament of the Church.&#8221; The eucharist is the center of the Church&#8217;s life. Everything in the Church leads to the eucharist, and all things flow from it. It is the completion of all of the Church&#8217;s sacraments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20030530/16</link>
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		<title>Whose Freedom Is It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States of America though young by historical standards, is still one of the oldest democracies (an aside: in truth, we are actually a representative democracy. Read that &#8220;Republic&#8221;) in the world. I won&#8217;t say absolutely the oldest, but it&#8217;s close. As a country with such a standing in the annals of history, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20030530/15</link>
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		<title>The Eucharist As An Offering and Submittal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He will speak peace to his people, to his saints, to those who turn to him in their hearts. Psalm 85:8
The life of prayer and worship does not aim first of all at comforting or the perfecting of the individual soul&#8211;as we often think it does and should.  The aim of all worship, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20030530/14</link>
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		<title>Moral Relevency of Mainstream Christianity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Reprinted from NewsMax.com


Is &#8216;Mainstream Christianity&#8217; Morally Relevant Right Now?
Tom Marsland
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Pope John Paul II recently condemned America and Great Britain&#8217;s &#8220;alliance of the willing&#8221; for wanting to liberate the Iraqi people and stop Hussein&#8217;s proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Clearly, Pope John Paul II is a decent man by almost any standard, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20030320/13</link>
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		<title>A Few Steps Along a Journey of Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My journey to/of faith, like all such journeys, has lasted my whole life. My story (the greatly abbreviated version) starts, of course, before my birth, but as we humans look at it, it started upon my baptism a few months after my birth. I was baptised on 6 May, 1973, at St. Clement&#8217;s Episcopal Church, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20021231/12</link>
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		<title>The Ultimate Story of Love (One of those oh so many forwarded emails. For those of you who are parents, you will truly understand this&#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a few of the usual Sunday evening hymns, the church&#8217;s pastor slowly stood up, walked over to the pulpit and, before he gave his sermon for the evening, briefly introduced a guest minister who was in the service that evening. In the introduction, the pastor told the congregation that the guest minister was one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20010627/11</link>
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		<title>Target Practice (one of those oh so many forwarded emails&#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A young lady named Sally, relates an experience she had in a seminary class, given by her teacher, who we&#8217;ll call Brother Smith. She says Brother Smith was known for his elaborate object lessons.
One particular day, Sally walked into the seminary and knew they were in for another fun day. On the wall was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20010627/10</link>
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		<title>Choose Your Evil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20010627/9</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Dumb and Dumber&#8221; Department&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;Not Quite Ready for Prime Time&#8221; files, here is this week&#8217;s &#8220;Pierre Salinger Non Compos Mentis&#8221; Award for stupid media questions: &#8220;Are police worried about vigilantism?&#8221; &#8211;CBS reporter, Randy Golson, questioning Chattanooga, Tennessee&#8217;s police spokesman after a victim of that city&#8217;s 45th recent home invasion robbery shot and killed one of the two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20010203/8</link>
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		<title>The Amen Corner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Amen Corner: Secular fundamentalists howl about Bush&#8217;s faith-based initiative.]]></description>
		<link>http://starlyth.info/20010131/7</link>
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