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		<title>An open letter to my friends in the pro-life movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends (yes, I count you as friends), I deeply admire your commitment to being a voice for those who don&#8217;t have a voice of their own. Christians have long taken it upon themselves to stand up for the marginalized and vulnerable in our midst. You don’t have to read the Bible very long to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=3157&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 million abortions later, the question we still aren’t asking…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Some pro-life commentators marked the occasion by pointing out that over 50 million pregnancies have been terminated since the Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark ruling. (Some politicians went even further, saying that 1 in 3 pregnancies end in abortion, which isn’t true. In reality, it’s more like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=3112&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Adam? (part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Irwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I started reading Peter Enns’ The Evolution of Adam. Enns, an evangelical biblical scholar, gets down to business on the very first page. (Bonus points to Enns for getting straight to the point.) He writes: The Human Genome Project, completed in 2003, has shown beyond any reasonable scientific doubt that humans and primates share [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=3015&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t have to &#8220;hate&#8221; religion to critique it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s with a due sense of dread and self-loathing that I succumb to the herd instinct and bring up Jefferson Bethke’s “Why I hate religion” video, 16 17 million YouTube hits later. &#160; It’s spawned all kinds of video responses — most of which, alarmingly, aspire to a poor imitation of Bethke’s form of freestyle rap/slam [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=2899&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, who&#8217;s up for a little theocracy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Irwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, N.T. Wright rounded out the January Series at Calvin College by proving he doesn’t mind saying things that would make most people squirm. The theme of his talk was “Why we’ve all misunderstood the gospels.” For him, the gospels are, at their core, a proclamation of theocracy, the news that God has actually become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=2977&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The King Jesus Gospel (or, what I&#8217;m going to tell my kid someday)</title>
		<link>http://benirwin.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/the-king-jesus-gospel-or-what-im-going-to-tell-my-kid-someday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Irwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day when I was five, I knelt down and prayed the sinner’s prayer. Ever since, I’ve identified myself as a Christian. Not everyone can say the same. In the introduction to The King Jesus Gospel, Scot McKnight observes that, even by the most conservative estimates, more than half of those who pray the exact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=2783&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Election in the Old Testament, part 3</title>
		<link>http://benirwin.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/election-in-ot-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Irwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Old Testament, God kicked off his redemptive plan by forming a covenant nation called Israel. The nation as a whole was a chosen instrument, predestined by God. But each person had a choice to make. If you were born into the covenant, there were dozens of ways you could opt out — that is, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=2490&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The best thing I read this week (January 21)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YES, it&#8217;s another Mark Driscoll post. This one is from Jonathan Martin, pastor of Renovatus Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. And he nails it. The thing I like best about Jonathan (apart from the fact that I so badly want to see him turn a deck of cards into a weapon), is how he reminds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=2829&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Election in the Old Testament, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Irwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The predestination debate often gravitates toward the same handful of New Testament texts. The problem, to quote Paul Eddy, is, “There’s an entire 39 books before the New Testament that use the same kind of [predestination] language.” In other words, if you want to understand what the Bible says about election, don’t skip the Old Testament. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=2263&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why it’s important to (occasionally) say something about Mark Driscoll</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Irwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I wrote a piece criticizing Mark Driscoll for comments he made during a recent interview (and after). I’ve mentioned Driscoll in passing a few times on this blog, but this was the second time in five years I’ve written specifically about him. The first was in response to a talk he gave on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benirwin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1150137&amp;post=2702&amp;subd=benirwin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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