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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>To Do or Not to Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another combination of statements that could look like a contradiction shows up in the Sermon on the Mount.
First Jesus encourages his followers to “let their light shine before others” so that others can see the good that they do (Matt 5:16).
But then a few statements later the Teacher begins an extended emphasis in which he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/11/19/to-do-or-not-to-do/</link>
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		<title>Studies in Contrast #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the apparent contradictions of the Bible happen in such quick succession that it is apparent that they are intentional devices to provoke thought.
For example, in Proverbs 26:4, the person of wisdom says, “Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.” The very next proverb in vs 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/11/18/studies-in-contrast-2/</link>
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		<title>Studies in Contrast</title>
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Does the Bible contradict itself?
More than a few people have written books or hosted websites to say that they lost their faith after seeing how often the Bible contradicts itself. Some have spent a lot of time compiling lists of apparent discrepancies in both Old and New Testaments.
Collections of alleged Bible contradictions are apt to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/11/14/studies-in-contrast/</link>
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		<title>Inexpressible Remembrance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Veterans Day in the United States. Yet we meet here on this website from all over the world.
So what I’m about to say has no regional or partisan intent.
Regardless of our citizenship, political orientation, or national history of conflict, we all owe the veterans of our own countries expressions of appreciation that cannot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/11/11/inexpressible-remembrance/</link>
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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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