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		<title>Indoctrination &#8211; part 1</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/08/30/indoctrination-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be strange for someone who isn’t a Christian to go to a Protestant church service.  There is row after row of nicely dressed, well mannered people, standing and staring at projection screens.  We seem to be singing the words written there mindlessly.  “I could sing of your love forever…”  

We even make motions the songs tell us to.  “Oh, I feel like dancing,” they sing, and do some half-hearted side-to-side-step.  It all must seem to the uninitiated like some Orwellian indoctrination, and I’m not sure in some sense that it isn’t...  Click the title above to continue reading.]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing Demons of Rage</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/08/15/dancing-demons-of-rage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I worked a side-job that ended up taking me to a heavy-metal music festival.  I only did it for a little extra money, but I also enjoyed the change of scenery and getting to meet some new people, most of whom aren’t Christians.  I don’t know why, but I often find myself talking and praying with people who aren’t Christians.  I’m not one of those people who corner someone and make them talk with me about Jesus.  I detest that.  But for some reason, I often end up in conversations with people who want to talk about their pain and brokenness.  So many times I have to hold back telling them how broken I am.  Those conversations aren’t supposed to be about me...(Click the title to read the rest of the article)]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmed and God</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/07/09/ahmed-and-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Ahmed at the mall.  I wasn’t looking to talk to him, but I was asking God that I be aware of anything He was doing around me.  This isn’t something I do regularly.  Its partly because I am often turned in to myself, only thinking and doing what relates to my little slice of the world. But, it is also due to the fact that God usually answers that prayer by showing me something He is doing.  He interjects me into someone else's little world, and a lot of times in my selfishness I don’t want to deal with that...(click the header to read the full article)]]></description>
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		<title>Small Miracles</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/06/25/small-miracles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite quotes comes from G.K. Chesterton.  I won’t quote the whole thing verbatim here (although I can from memory).  But basically it says that God has the eternal appetite of youth, and makes every single sunset and daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them.  “For we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is far younger than we.”... (Click the header to read the full article)]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Holy Time</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/06/14/the-most-holy-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit it.  I’ve been in some kind of funk lately.  No actually, not lately, this has been going on for some time now.  The exact nature of this funk is difficult to describe, and especially so when I am trying to do so without offending the sensibilities of proper and sincere religious people.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Faith -Part 3</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/05/30/learning-faith-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part three in a 3 part series on how we educate the next generation in matters of faith.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Faith -Part 2</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/05/23/learning-faith-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 04:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part two in a 3 part series on how we educate the next generation in matters of faith.  Read part one, and stay tuned for part three.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Faith -Part 1</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/05/20/learning-faith-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 04:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part one in a 3 part series on how we educate the next generation in matters of faith. Faith as Meme I am currently reading a book about memes.  Everyone I mention this to asks me the same immediate question.  “What in the heck is a meme?”   Then I begin the inordinately long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rated Argh!</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/03/29/rated-argh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a discussion with one of the older members of my youth group present where we discussed the movie Schindler's List.   I said that movie was one of the very few movies I've ever seen in which the sex scenes were valuable to the story-line, and that I felt weren't a barrier to me watching.  She seemed a bit shocked that I would say something like that.  So did several others (everyone else was an adult), and I felt myself trying to back out of the rhetorical corner I had put myself in.  I don't feel that I did a good job of explanation.  Maybe I'll do better here... (click the title above to read the rest of this article)]]></description>
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		<title>Leading a Mutiny?</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/03/25/leading-a-mutiny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need to start off this article with a short disclaimer.  I got started down this philosophical road by an article in Matt Crosslin's blog, which he started as a response to a Relevant Magazine article, "Is There a Church Mutiny Afoot?"  I started my part of the discussion several weeks ago, but was unsatisfied with what I'd written.  I felt that my thoughts on the issue were too muddled, and in some ways I still feel that way.  One of the reasons I write this blog is to put legs on ideas, and in so doing, bring a little clarity to them.  That is the only reason I have put this up.  It is important for any reader to understand that none of this is combative, although the issue of Christian ambition does strike a bit of a sore spot with me.  Further, I have no animosity toward Matt or Relevant.  In fact, I feel the opposite.  Some great illumination has come to me through the reading of both.  It is in the healthy debate that I feel the greatest good is served...(Click the Title above to continue reading)]]></description>
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