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		<title>Running Out Of Reasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we are repelled by the idea that an undocumented immigrant might "get away with something" if we grant amnesty, we are complacent if not comfortable when one of "our own" is blessed with forgivness.  Is anyone in Mississippi confused about this?


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		<title>The William Sloane Coffin Project: Pointing Inward</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we are approaching maturity, we know that it&#8217;s hard to be Christian but it&#8217;s dull to be anything else.                                 &#8212; William Sloane Coffin, 1982 When reading a William Sloane Coffin sermon I expect to be challenged by the radical social demands of the Gospel of Christ.  I expect prophetic social disturbance.  I expect to squirm uncomfortably [...]
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		<title>Immigrants And Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jharlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and The Partnership For A New American Economy released a new report last month about immigrants in the United States and their impact on employment levels for native-born workers.   You can download the entire article at http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/immigration/immigration-and-american-jobs/. Do Immigrants Take Our Jobs? Principal Investigator, Madeline Zavodny of Agnes Scott College in Georgia led [...]
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		<title>&#8220;Really&#8221; Christian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jharlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem, as we have seen from the beginning, is that being set apart -- even for good reasons -- slowly morphs into exclusion, meaning what began as a distinction later becomes a fence or wall. 
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		<title>Wrong Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we prophetic?  This, of course, is the right question, but the much harder question, which is why I avoid it.   

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