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		<title>Missio Dei in the Local Context</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My third and final paper for my UDTS online class, Theology of Mission and Evangelism. &#8220;Evaluate your own congregation, assessing the historical, cultural, and missiological paradigms that have shaped it. Given this congregation’s context, describe the missiological challenges to becoming a missional church and what you would do to help it to become one.&#8221; There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25+1 Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At my birthday lunch today, a friend challenged me to boil down 25 years of wisdom into as many words. I pared as much as possible and didn&#8217;t quite make it (which is a good lesson in itself), so we&#8217;ll bill the excess word to the year that lies ahead.
When you can&#8217;t figure something out,
embrace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks, Robert Frost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And being one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could.
To where it bent in the undergrowth,
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missio Dei: Journey of the Elect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Missio Dei: Journey of the Elect

Russell Duren
IN581: Theology of Mission &#38; Evangelism
University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
April 14, 2008
Missio Dei&#8230; a term that has been selfishly abused, a term that is robustly debated, a term that holds great hope. From Latin, missio Dei simply means &#8220;mission of God&#8221;. However, not so simple is Christianity&#8217;s responsibility - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit of Blogging</title>
		<link>http://rduren.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/spirit-of-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written much in a while, and the reasons for this lack of activity are actually some pretty important stories. But I haven&#8217;t felt like writing them down. I&#8217;ve been pushed a lot recently, which has been great, but tough. And not always entirely appropriate for public consumption (yet).
So, combine this with my noticing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Changing Face of Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Strapped for time available for posting material here, I humbly submit my first seminary paper. The prompt was &#8220;Drawing on your readings and class discussion, how is the face of Christianity changing?  Describe the changes and what has contributed to those changes, and then analyze how this may affect the church as a whole.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newbigin &#38; the Enlightenment</title>
		<link>http://rduren.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/newbigin-the-enlightenment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[The Gospel in a Pluralist Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For class last week, we read through the first few chapters of Lesslie Newbigin&#8217;s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. It was pretty hard stuff. I managed to pull enough out of the text to respond to the questions. Your thoughts are welcomed on anything below (or on other tangents as well, hahaha)&#8230;
Newbigin on Doubt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mission of God</title>
		<link>http://rduren.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/mission-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, in our class discussion, we explored how the recovery of missio Dei (the mission of God) might be tied to church renewal. One of the key articles for this discussion was titled &#8220;Recasting Theology of Mission: Impulses from the Non-Western World,&#8221; by Wilbert Shenk. If you can find the article, I encourage you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1-2-3 Meme</title>
		<link>http://rduren.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/1-2-3-meme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been tagged for the 1-2-3 Meme by good friend Matt Shedden. The game is to grab the book nearest to you and turn to page 123. Find the 5th sentence and share the next 3 sentences with everyone. Then you tag five people.
My book is Family Based Youth ministry by Rev. Mark DeVries. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideal and Divine Realities</title>
		<link>http://rduren.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/ideal-and-divine-realities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream. The serious Christian, set down for the first time in a Christian community, is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it. But God&#8217;s grace [...]]]></description>
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