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		<title>Objectified</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Gary Hustwit, of Helvetica fame, has a new documentary coming out about industrial design titled Objectified. Screenings begin in early 2009.
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		<title>Affected by Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[70,000 - Number of people killed in an earthquake in Sichuan, China. 5 million are still homeless.
84,000 - Number of people killed in a cyclone that hit Myanmar (Burma). 2.4 million are still in need of aide.
14 - Years that civil war has been raging through Sudan.
230,000 - Number of people displaced due to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Learnings from the Leadership Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There were so many great take-aways and things I am going to need to process/implement/chew on/wrestle with/think about, but here are ten of my learnings from the 2008 Leadership Summit:
1. &#8220;What happens if we invite people into our churches and they never change?&#8221; - Then you&#8217;ll be like Jesus. Jesus invited Judas in to his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church and Same-Sex Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last weekend of July, we focused our services on addressing the issues of homosexuality, California&#8217;s Proposition 8 and same-sex marriage.
Ideally, we would have liked to address these topics on our own terms; however, the growing fervor of this issue in California, specifically among the &#8220;Church World,&#8221; caused us to expedite our process. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Values and Simplicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Maeda reflects on the Glass House and how it relates to his theories on simplicity. The best line, though, is about halfway through: &#8220;When we all have values, life is simpler.&#8221; Interesting thought.
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		<title>I Once Was Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest book, co-authored by Doug Schaupp, Don Everts explores how people come to Jesus in today&#8217;s postmodern culture. I Once Was Lost is based on the stories of two thousand postmodern people and how they found their way in to a following of Jesus. Everts, whose books Jesus With Dirty Feet and The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God at the Movies&#8230;in Albania?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you follow this blog, you know that Journey just finished up a six week series called God at the Movies V. (More on that series here.) It&#8217;s one of our favorite series to do each year, and is, arguably, the most popular series of our ministry year. Apparently, it&#8217;s popular around the world, too. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prejudice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah gave me this a few months back, and has been something that has resonated so deeply:
&#8220;One of the hardest spiritual tasks is to live without prejudices. Sometimes we aren&#8217;t even aware how deeply rooted our prejudices are. We may think that we relate to people who are different from us in colour, religion, sexual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laughter in Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In putting our weekend services together, the creative team strives to create moments in which people can be moved in a deep way, moments where they can encounter God, moments of &#8220;awe.&#8221; But every once in a while, we try and be funny. I will admit that this is often harder for us - it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration, again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best books I&#8217;ve read this year was The Myths of Innovation, by Scott Berkun (for more on that book, read here). The Guardian had an interesting article on how to write a movie, and the following excerpt reminded me of a lot of what Berkun talks about:
&#8220;I think people see inspiration as [...]]]></description>
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