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		<title>How to Save a Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was at a home improvement big box store when a song came over the PA. I immediately recognized it as a song I had first heard on my favorite TV series of all time, Scrubs. The song was &#8220;How to Save a Life&#8221; by the Fray. I&#8217;ll talk about Scrubs more in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1214&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Try and Believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning my six year old son approaches me and says, &#8220;Dad, can you pull these apart?&#8221; and proceeds to hand me two of the smallest Lego(TM) pieces you can imagine. Now mind you, I&#8217;m no Lego(TM) novice. I remember well the days of my parents hopping around on one foot, hollering at me to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1204&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger: What can I do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Sunday I preached about our tendency as Americans to over-indulge, while others in this world (globally and locally) struggle with the essentials: clean water, adequate shelter, nutritious food. I encouraged the congregation to consider celebrating Christmas a little differently this year by giving presents that have a Kingdom impact, like fair-trade gifts, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1189&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look Out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sermon for the first Sunday of Advent Preached at St Pauls UMC in Jamestown, North Dakota Mark 13:24-37 One of my favorite activities at Wesley Acres is our high ropes course. I don&#8217;t get to climb much, because often I&#8217;m the facilitator, the one of the ground, holding the other end of the rope [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1172&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prime Directive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m kind of a sci-fi nerd. Love me some Star Trek: The Next Generation (or TNG as it is affectionately known as) and Jean Luc Picard and even the all-too-Shatner-like Number One. If you are not familiar with the series, the silky voice-over by Patrick Stewart at the beginning of every episode tells the story: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1167&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generation Rising</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new book just released that I want to recommend to you. It&#8217;s entitled &#8220;Generation Rising: A future with hope for the United Methodist Church.&#8221; It is a book written by 12 Generation-X United Methodists, many whom I have read or interacted with via blogs, facebook, 7 villages, even one of them in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1161&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guaranteed Appointment</title>
		<link>http://unknowntraveler.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/guaranteed-appointment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of talk about doing away with the guaranteed appointment of clergy within the UMC. First, let me start with saying that &#8220;guaranteed appointment&#8221; is language that is not found in the Discipline, so it&#8217;s a misnomer from the get-go. The proposed language change as I understand it would be to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1154&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save yourselves!</title>
		<link>http://unknowntraveler.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/save-yourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This oft used phrase in stories and movies depicting catastrophic circumstances keeps coming to mind when I read about my denomination&#8217;s efforts to curb the decline of membership seen in the past four decades. I would go even further and say that we have been in decline for a much longer period of time than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1151&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting Gears</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it turns out I&#8217;m not alone. My friend Ben, from Group Workcamp days, is also undergoing a paradigm shift in his blogging. You can check out his stuff HERE. So I&#8217;m going to change gears. I&#8217;ve received a lot of suggestions both in public Facebook comments and in private messages for the direction my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1147&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Absence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not been writing here lately. I think about adding to this blog everyday, but I can&#8217;t make myself sit down and write. And so I&#8217;ve been wondering why. Why can&#8217;t I bring myself to muse theologically these days? And the answer I came up with just yesterday seems so obvious, I can&#8217;t believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unknowntraveler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5343724&amp;post=1142&amp;subd=unknowntraveler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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