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	<title>Been Thinking About</title>
	<link>http://www.beenthinking.org</link>
	<description>with Mart De Haan and Friends</description>
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		<title>Let There be Light&#8230; and Darkness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have been thinking that one way to understand the Bible is to see the way it tells the story of light and darkness.
The first quoted words of the God who brought something out of nothing and order out of chaos are, “Let there be Light.” Then God divided the light from the darkness in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/11/07/let-there-be-light-and-darkness/</link>
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		<title>What Unites and Divides Us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder what people who don’t believe in Christ must think when they see how many different denominations show up on the church page of the newspaper.
Best case might be, “Wow, looks like a fight, maybe I ought to see what their issues are.”
Worst case might be that they stay away thinking, “Don’t want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/11/03/what-unites-and-divides-us/</link>
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		<title>From Jeter to Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I’m interested in baseball only enough to have watched a couple innings of World Series Game One,  I read an article yesterday in the New York Times about Yankee short stop, Derek Jeter, that caught my attention. 
Sports writer, Jack Curry, described some of the mental characteristics that have made Jeter (team captain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/29/from-jeter-to-jesus/</link>
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		<title>In Hope of Changing Seasons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was raining and 43 degrees yesterday when I stopped to look up into this tree. 
Its trunk and branches are strong. Yet by its appearance, it is joining the rest of us in acknowledging that we have no power to resist the seasons of life.
Solomon, struggled for a while to make sense of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/25/in-hope-of-changing-seasons/</link>
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		<title>The Pain of Being Misunderstood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communication has to be one of the most wonderfully difficult challenges in life. Whether among friends, family, or co-workers, conversation can be hard work with unpredictable and problematic outcomes.  
Even here in cyberspace with all of its self-protective anonymity, who will deny that, depending on how much we&#8217;ve been willing to say, we can&#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/20/the-pain-of-being-misunderstood/</link>
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		<title>Peace of Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of us say we believe in God because life could not have just happened. Could never believe that this dragon fly&#8230; let alone the challenges and quiet reflection of human existence… could have happened apart from a greater personality, thought, or love…even in boundless eons of time.
But thinking about the alternative—that God, in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/17/peace-of-mind/</link>
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		<title>Care and Convictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our &#8220;Good Conversation&#8221; has surfaced a couple of points that I think are very important.
None of us want our moral advocacy, political involvement, or lack of political involvement to indicate a lack of concern for others. In fact, we probably would all like to believe that we support political action or inaction based on what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/15/care-and-convictions/</link>
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		<title>Good Conversation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My thoughts this morning have been all over the place. 
I begin the day impressed by Jesus’ prayer that his people would be “one” so that the world would know that the Father has sent him (John 17:21).  
Moving to the morning news, I begin to think about so many good opportunities to talk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/10/good-conversation-2/</link>
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		<title>Is the Prophecy Being Fulfilled?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a day in which 30,000 Jewish people gathered in Jerusalem’s Western Wall Plaza to receive the priestly blessing, an article in the Jerusalem Post yesterday described 4000 Christians meeting on the shores of the Dead Sea and claiming to be fulfilling Bible prophecy.
According to the JP article by Josiah Daniel Ryan, the 4000 were a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/06/is-the-prophecy-being-fulfilled/</link>
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		<title>Gilad Shalit and Sukkot 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was surprised on Friday when The Jerusalem Post announced that Israel had received a video tape showing an alive-and-well Gilad Shalit&#8211; in exchange for the release of 20 Palestinian women.  (Shalit is an Israeli soldier captured in a cross-border raid by Palestinians almost three years ago.
The fact that a much more powerful Israeli government [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/04/gilad-schalit-and-sukkot-2009/</link>
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