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		<title>Coming Out II: Paradigm Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series of posts about my coming out story. See the first here. The names of individuals in these posts are changed to keep identities safe. I was in the midst of a paradigm shift. The underlying theme of my spiritual life has always been my sexuality. It’s hard to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=512&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Out I: O God, You Ask Too Much</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is the first in a series of posts about my coming out process. Links to subsequent posts in the series will be provided at the end of each post.  O God, you ask too much. I wrote this in my journal on October 19, 2010. It was 2:00am on a weeknight; I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=501&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>James Alison on Jesus as the Other</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; the irruption of what is utterly other, utterly gratuitous, is not simply a delightful thing. It is a terrifying one&#8230; What is other to us, in a more distant sense, if you like, the &#8216;removed&#8217; other, like visiting a foreign country whose language we don&#8217;t know, and whose culture we don&#8217;t understand, is both exciting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=481&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Space to Breathe: I&#8217;m Back and Changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly one year ago, I posted for what I thought would be the last time on this blog. I was at a crossroads in my life: I had just moved to Chicago, started a new job in an industry that I knew nothing about, and was living on my own for the first time. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=477&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender &#8211; My Last ISI Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a transcript of a talk originally delivered at Iron Sharpens Iron, an interdenominational ministry at the University of Notre Dame, on April 15, 2010. I needed to hear this message again tonight: perhaps you do too. First things first. Tonight, I would like to apologize for my unsightly facial hair. Many of you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=470&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Noll on Christian Intellect</title>
		<link>http://wildbranches.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/mark-noll-on-christian-intellect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Learning may have a greater tendency to inculcate pride than some other human activities, but only relatively so. Business executives who boast in their firms, parents who boast in their children, gardeners who boast in their tomatoes, patriots who boast in their nations &#8212; all are called, with scholars who boast in their books, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=459&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>B.B. Warfield &amp; Keller on Mercy Ministry</title>
		<link>http://wildbranches.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/b-b-warfield-keller-on-mercy-ministry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is in connection with my current dilemma: how to serve the poor in Chicago. I plan on posting at some point, once my thoughts are more collected. Until then, I found this passage to be, on the one hand, profoundly convicting; yet, on the other, profoundly inspiring. *** &#8220;B.B Warfield, in a sermon on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=450&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Living in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://wildbranches.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/on-living-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, yeah, I started another blog. This one isn&#8217;t about philosophy or theology. The Would-Be Chicagoan: http://wouldbechicagoan.wordpress.com/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=445&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on Loneliness</title>
		<link>http://wildbranches.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/some-thoughts-on-loneliness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently moved to Chicago and, much to my delight, have found an inexpensive place with some great roommates in Chinatown. Overall, I&#8217;m really excited here. But it hasn&#8217;t been easy: transitions never are. Tonight, I was feeling rather lonely, a feeling which I think pervades much of city life, yet one which also seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=438&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sufjan Stevens &#8212; All Delighted People</title>
		<link>http://wildbranches.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/sufjan-stevens-all-delighted-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting ready to move to Chicago, so not much time to write. In the meantime, here&#8217;s a new song from Sufjan Stevens. Pay attention to the lyrics.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildbranches.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7975967&amp;post=435&amp;subd=wildbranches&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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