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		<title>Evangelism in the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Christian linguist*, one of the things that particularly irks me is the failure of the Church (myself included) to be vigilant in ensuring that our witness to the world is an intelligible one. In our desire to preach the Gospel, we&#8217;re not always careful to make sure the language we&#8217;re speaking is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=721</link>
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		<title>Theologians on North American Lutheranism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the days leading up to the birth of the North American Lutheran Church, Lutheran CORE sponsored a theological conference entitled &#8220;Seeking New Directions for Lutheranism.&#8221; To that end, a number of high-profile Lutheran scholars (Robert Benne, Robert Jenson, etc.)  were on hand to present papers on a number of subjects including the authority of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=712</link>
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		<title>A Rant on Worship Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine linked this on Facebook earlier today. Basically, it&#8217;s one man&#8217;s rant about worship music. Among the things he criticizes are simplistic, repetitive, I-focused lyrics. But visit the site. The songs he&#8217;s &#8220;criticizing&#8221; might not be what you&#8217;d expect. Link:  &#8220;Rant about Worship Songs&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=708</link>
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		<title>“Christian” Youth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNN has a good article on Kenda Creasy Dean&#8217;s new book Almost Christian where she argues that many religious teens are Christian in name only.  &#8220;Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls &#8220;moralistic therapeutic deism.&#8221; Translation: It&#8217;s a watered-down faith that portrays God as a &#8220;divine therapist&#8221; whose chief goal is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=697</link>
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		<title>News Stories on the Crisis in the ELCA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Canada we haven&#8217;t had much (if any) media coverage of the crisis occuring in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America since its August 2009 vote to approve homosexual relationships and open the clergy to non-celibate homosexuals. But an article of mine published today on the National Post&#8217;s religion blog &#8220;Holy Post&#8221; is intended to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=692</link>
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		<title>The Global Shift in Christianity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a perception still common in Western Society that Christianity is a &#8220;white religion.&#8221; It&#8217;s old. It&#8217;s patriarchal. And it&#8217;s imperialistic. Case settled, right? Well, it might be except for the awkward fact that the the average Christian these days is unlikely to be any of those things. North American and European Christians today account [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=681</link>
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		<title>Bunyan&#8217;s Theology of Despair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just filling out my registration information for the University of Regina&#8217;s Literary Eclectic conference in September (a task delayed a bit by my not having a very new word processor on my desktop computer. Curse you, .docx files!). I&#8217;m presenting a paper entitled &#8220;Despair in The Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress: Universal Allegory Founded on Individual Experience&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=667</link>
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		<title>Review: The Rage Against God &#8211; Peter Hitchens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up Peter Hitchens&#8217; book The Rage Against God a couple days back and read it in one sitting. Hitchens is the brother of famed atheist Christopher Hitchens, and while his book is not meant to be a point by point counter to his brother&#8217;s God is Not Great, it is nonetheless meant as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=660</link>
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		<title>&#8220;In his own native language&#8230;&#8221; (Acts 2:8)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off to Chicago today until Saturday for I.D.I.O.M. (In-Depth Investigation of Mission), put on by Lutheran Bible Translators. [I am grateful to LBT-Canada for their support in attending the conference.] This event is for people considering the possiblity of serving in translation ministry (whether as translation advisors, language surveyors, ethnomusicologists, etc). Please pray for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=652</link>
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		<title>This is the way the word ends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago I mentioned a piece of mine had been published in the June issue of Speculative Grammarian. Well, that linguistics satire piece has prompted a similarly satirical response. In the July issue, &#8220;Charlie Saygone&#8221; criticizes my theory of the &#8220;linguistic big crunch&#8221; and argues instead that we are headed for a &#8220;linguistic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.captainthin.net/?p=644</link>
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