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		<title>Obama the Apostate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much internet chatter about whether or not Barak Obama is a Muslim.  With a middle name like Hussein, it is easy to see how some people can come to that conclusion, especially since he was registered as a Muslim when he lived in Indonesia and attended a Muslim school there (of course [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=41&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complicated Church Problems (and Solutions)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading 7 Myths of the United Methodist Church by Craig Miller.  It was an interesting read and full of a lot of information that many, many people in leadership in the denomination need to have, both clergy and laity.
I&#8217;m not going to go through each of them, but I will say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=24&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feminization of the Church&#8211;Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got to tell you, I&#8217;ve heard and read a lot about the &#8216;feminization&#8217; of the Church lately.  There is this idea that men have recently disappeared from the pews (or comfortable chairs) and it is leaving the Church with a leadership vacuum because of a variety of reasons (most of which I think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=21&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Young Clergy Crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just stumbled upon United Methodist Young Clergy, a project trying to detail the struggle young clergy (age 35 and younger) have within the denomination.
As I began reading some of the posts and blogs, I began to realize something: we young clergy (and I&#8217;ve got two-and-a-half years left to qualify) like to complain a lot. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=16&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This just hit me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 02:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There I was, in the middle of a Church Council meeting, trying to explain the difference between intentionally focusing on visitors and guests and intentionally focusing on ourselves.  I was on a role (my wife says I was beating a dead horse) about how we need to enter into the mindset of a first-time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevendbruns.wordpress.com&blog=3730589&post=11&subd=stevendbruns&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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