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		<title>What Happens When a Christian Extremist Assasinates the President?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps, you are like me and the mere thought of this makes you shudder. However, we need to wake up to this reality and danger. In the past couple of months, one man went to the pentagon with a gun because of his hate for the government; another man flew his plane into the federal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=601&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Condeming the Lives of Others Make People More Likely to Be Immoral?: Mark Souder, Ted Haggard, and Rent Boys</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 15:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, conservative Republican, Mark Souder resigned when the affair with his staff member became public. He becomes the most recent tragedy in the story of the Religious Right and the crusade for family values. The situation is ironic, because Souder was someone who fought against sex education in favor of abstinence only education, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=595&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why a Young Gay Iranian May Change the Face of the Immigration Issue: A Modern Rosa Parks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 12:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mohammad Abdollah was carried to the United States when he was three years old by his parents. He went through all the necessary steps and education, but he still is an illegal immigrant 21 years later. This week, in response to the draconian immigration laws that were passed in Arizona, he and a group of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=591&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil as the New Mediator in the Islamic World-Very Interesting and Potentially Promising</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 13:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, Brazil made a move to work as a mediator between Iran and the West on the issue of nuclear enrichment and development. They also recently went to Israel to work as a broker on a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians. This is something that is not been heard of in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=587&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defending Street Preachers, Scientologists, Islamic Dress, and Westboro Baptist Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past month in Great Britain, a street preacher was arrested for preaching against homosexuals in the town square. It was stated to be hate speech, which is illegal under British law. This past year has also seen the burka made illegal in the country of France, even though this dress is important for many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=582&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona to Ban Ethnic Studies Classes: Keeping History and Literature White</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[History has often said to be the story of the victors. Who are the victors in U.S. society? Well, it has traditionally been the White European population. Because of this, many modern historians and educators have found it very important to really focus on the histories of ethnic minorities and oppressed people. I know in my own U.S. History classes it is easy to focus solely on the large leaders and victors and not focus on the lower classes, oppressed, and ethnic minorities.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=578&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why “Drill Baby Drill” Has Disappeared from the American Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past month, there was the largest oil disaster in the United States since the 1980’s with the Exxon Valdez disaster. This horrible accident happened just weeks after Obama announced more offshore drilling projects (which he now is considering halting). In the midst of the huge ecological consequences of this disaster, we need to realize what this can teach us as a nation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=572&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Irony: How Arizona’s New Immigration Law Will Actually Lead to Amnesty for Undocumented Workers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1960’s when the nation saw Civil Rights Protestors being sprayed down with hoses, beaten, and jailed by southern police officers, many who never cared much about the issue of Civil Rights started feeling compassion and solidarity with the African-Americans in the South. The man who thought he was going to put out the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=569&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have We Sub-Consciously Made Undocumented Workers Sub-Human?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a Republican congressional candidate from Iowa said it would be a good idea to put micro-chips in illegal immigrants, just like they do in dogs. Another congressman from Texas was speaking in the U.S. House and explaining how we have stopped grasshoppers from getting into the country, so we should have no problem doing the same with immigrants.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=566&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practices of Prayer Through Yoga</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone begins to speak of the spiritual elements of Yoga or meditation, some automatically label them a hippy or perhaps “out there”. However, it is so important to realize the practical implications of how yoga and meditation can be used for spiritual strength and growth. I am recent to the practice of yoga and meditation in my own life. I grew up in a tradition where it wasn’t really talked about much. Much more was made of the mind and belief, than the spirit and essence. Neither emphasis is wrong; however, both are needed to have a vibrant spiritual life.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=563&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Our Greatest Strength Becomes Our Greatest Weakness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our Ancient Civilizations Class, we just finished studying about Julius Caesar. It was stated that his greatest strength, his courage and independence, was also his greatest weakness-which ultimately led to his demise. Somehow, this seems to be the case with most of us in our lives. We have certain individual strengths which allow us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=561&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words of Wisdom from a 12 Year Old on the Dangers of Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, we celebrated Earth Day at the school. So, I was trying to bring up awareness about environmental issues with my students. We talked about how we can reduce consumption in our own lives and what the future will be like when they are older- both positive and negative possibilities. Many of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=558&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona&#039;s New Immigration Law: Leading the Country in Xenophobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, the state senate in Arizona passed a bill making it legal for the authorities to detain anyone who they have suspicions of being an illegal immigrant. I wonder who they are going to suspect and detain? Perhaps, dark skinned people, people who speak English with an accent, or who are from a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=555&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem With Glorifying the Past: When Our Memory is Skewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t you just wish you could go back to the days of the Founding Fathers? Hmm…well, I guess if you are a white Protestant male landowner. It wouldn’t be so nice if you were African-American, a woman, a religious minority, or poor. While I think the Founding Fathers were brilliant men and really set up a very good system of government, let’s not deify them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=551&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Need To Be Vigilant Yet Careful to Speak of Persecution: Franklin Graham Dropped as Speaker from Pentagon Prayer Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 20:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I was researching some about the religiously persecuted around the world. Some of the stories shock us, sadden us, and give us a great desire to do something to change it. For example, in places like Iran where people can still be killed for converting to a different faith. To places like North Korea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=548&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Good Into Evil: Lincoln and Slavery and Obama and Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now, I am teaching my U.S. History students about the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, when Lincoln freed all the Confederate slaves. While I was teaching this, I came across a very strange cartoon-which is very relevant to today. In the cartoon, Lincoln is seen stepping on the Constitution and being influenced by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=542&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving On From the Past to Embrace the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the newly elected Republican Governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, made a declaration to celebrate Confederate History Month in his state. This doesn&#8217;t greatly surprise me. I was born in South Carolina. However, it seems like we could have evolved beyond this by the year 2010. Since I am a history teacher, I know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=539&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people like to say that Martin Luther King was one of their heroes. However, I think many people forget what he really stood for. Ironically, Glenn Beck the other day talked about the greatness of Martin Luther King. Really?? If he was alive today, he would be attacked as a socialist, “evil” progressive, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=536&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the Resurrection Makes Us One With God, the World, and All Humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2000 years ago, the resurrection changed everything about the way Christians see God, death, life, and redemption. It also changed the world; it changed the course and direction of the world-from death to life. Somehow, it also changed the way that we interact with humanity and the world-through the lens of the kingdom of God. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=533&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Celebrate Palm Sunday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never quite understood the celebration of Palm Sunday. After all, weren’t many of the people worshipping Jesus on Palm Sunday the same ones calling for his death a week later? Wasn’t the whole premise of their worship based on a distorted view of the message of Jesus? In my Ancient Civilizations class, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=529&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When We Become the Eucharist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has spent any time in the church is familiar with the Eucharist or communion. In Christianity, we take the bread and wine because of the deep, powerful significance Christ put on it right before his death and resurrection. As we take in the bread and body of the Lord, we become one with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=526&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Ourselves in the Death of Jesus This Season</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We love focusing on life and resurrection, but it is naturally painful for us to focus on death, agony, and seeming defeat. This time of year, whatever term you may call it by, was made for that purpose though. It is a time for us to go into the deep places, the sorrowful places, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=525&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Finally Remember Why I Worked on the Obama Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of increased troop levels in Afghanistan, a freeze on domestic spending but not on military spending, a delay in closing down Guantanamo, and at times over-compromising on what seems like everything, I have at times been disappointed by the Obama administration. However, last nigh with the passing of health care reform, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=519&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Bring Down the Abortion Rate: Ensure Universal Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion is one of the most contentious and divisive issues in our nation together. There is no other issue that causes more passion and division. However, it seems we often been focusing on the wrong issue-pro-choice or pro-life. At the end of the day the legality of abortion will not be the biggest factor in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=516&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our New Jim Crow Laws: Immigrants and Health Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the congressman from my home state shouted out “You Lie” to Obama, he wasn’t doing so to defend veterans, help out the needy in the community, or protect the religious or political liberties of his constituents. No, he was yelling out in his childish rant to protest the mere thought that a certain group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=essencerestored.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11087138&amp;post=513&amp;subd=essencerestored&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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