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		<title>Power of Love vs. Love of Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 14:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Culture Kid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves he seeks no power, therefore he has power,” Alan Paton (Cry the Beloved Country) During a recent weekend trip I had an intense discussion with an agnostic friend. Church and religion are to her one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturaljetlag.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16910171&amp;post=226&amp;subd=culturaljetlag&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TCK Takeaway: 10 Practices of Love in your Religious Activities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 03:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Culture Kid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s about God, not about you. It’s through experiencing the great love of God and understanding the nature of Christ’s sacrifice for us that we are taught how to love. Love God back. We are told that the greatest commandment is to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. Love your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturaljetlag.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16910171&amp;post=223&amp;subd=culturaljetlag&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TCK Takeaway: 10 Habits for Avoiding Evangelical Consumerism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Culture Kid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After writing the post Consumerism for the masses; Mass for the consumer, I took some time to reflect on how one might engage in worship without succumbing to the lure of religious consumerism.   As we grapple with troublesome cultural trends within our churches, the temptation may be to withdraw. However, the best way to change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturaljetlag.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16910171&amp;post=184&amp;subd=culturaljetlag&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art for the Consumer Masses; Mass for the Consumer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Culture Kid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When art is not flourishing, religion languishes . . . the two often wax and wane in tandem.&#8221; Earle Jerome Coleman. There seems to me a mysterious metaphysical connection between aesthetics and religion, art and worship that I find myself hesitant to explore. Each subject on it&#8217;s own is daunting, yet I am intrigued by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturaljetlag.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16910171&amp;post=161&amp;subd=culturaljetlag&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My First Hooker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Culture Kid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Log]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I traveled on assignment to Mali, West Africa. At the end of one particular day as I tried to account for my expenses, I scratched my head wondering how to write prostitute into my budget. Carina, a Dutch mission worker we had come to see, took us to a brothel she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturaljetlag.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16910171&amp;post=134&amp;subd=culturaljetlag&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Bamboo Curtain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Culture Kid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bamboo curtain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language barrier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rice terraces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TCK]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behind the bamboo curtain, I stood on the edge of a mountain. I didn’t know the language or the culture, but I knew that I wanted to be there. From Kunming, we journeyed eight hours into the mountains to the town of Yuanyang. From here, it is another ten-hour hike to the Vietnamese border, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturaljetlag.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16910171&amp;post=111&amp;subd=culturaljetlag&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelicalism, Power, and unTrue Truths</title>
		<link>http://culturaljetlag.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/book-report-crazy-for-god-by-frank-schaeffer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Culture Kid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[absolute truth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I read Crazy for God by Frank Schaeffer. It was a trippy book for me to read. Although I have heard about L’Abri most of my life, I did not anticipate how much Frank Schaeffer’s childhood resembled my own. We both were raised as MKs (Missionary Kids) immersed in the fabric of fundamentalism and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturaljetlag.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16910171&amp;post=74&amp;subd=culturaljetlag&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Report: Radical by David Platt</title>
		<link>http://culturaljetlag.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/book-rant-radical-by-david-platt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Culture Kid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are molding Jesus into our image . . . And the danger now is that when we gather in our church buildings to sing and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshiping the Jesus of the bible. instead, we may be worshiping ourselves&#8221;. Knowing my struggle with pop-culture Christianity, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturaljetlag.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16910171&amp;post=14&amp;subd=culturaljetlag&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Manger Scenes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Third Culture Kid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drive-thru nativity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hegemony]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years now I&#8217;ve wrestled with my inner &#8220;evangelical&#8221;. I like the music, the coffee, the manger scenes. There&#8217;s something so American about church. It&#8217;s a great show, often quirky, but to me, always a little foreign as I watch the others swaddle up the fake baby Jesus and grab another cup of coffee. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturaljetlag.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16910171&amp;post=6&amp;subd=culturaljetlag&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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