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		<title>Gospel Redistricting: How Adent is redrawing the landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick search for at chron.com confirms my suspicion: tis the season for redistricting. Sunday’s Opinion section had a great visual of how important redistricting can be in swaying votes one direction or another. On Friday the Houston Chronicle editorial  talked about Texas’ “improper standard or methodology” for redistricting that did not adequately “reflect the interests of voters.” All [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=992&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a sweatshop in your backyard?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might be surprised that sweatshop labor is in your backyard. I was! Sweatshop stories are typically from overseas and surround well-known companies. For instance, according to laborrights.org the official inductees of the 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame are: Abercrombie and Fitch, Gymboree, Hanes, Ikea, Kohl’s, LL Bean, Pier 1 Imports, Propper International, and Walmart. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=959&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is God mean? Local groups living otherwise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other morning we were singing the African American spiritual &#8220;Be still, God will fight your battles (if you just keep still)&#8230;&#8221; My four year old son, ever the consistent ethicist, blurts out, &#8220;NO he won&#8217;t, because God&#8217;s not mean, fightings mean.&#8221; That&#8217;s true, we&#8217;ve worked hard to teach our kids that fighting, hitting, kicking, biting, pushing or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=952&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s a girl!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;s from the archives as we celebrate a very big day in the Troyer household: my daughter&#8217;s 1st birthday. She has helped me to imagine a different world. This was written soon after her birth. In 1945 over the desert of the South West United States a code was devised to indicate whether the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=950&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World&#8217;s Day Against the Death Penalty</title>
		<link>http://houstonmennonite.org/2011/10/21/the-worlds-day-against-the-death-penalty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Every day the sun comes up is world day against the death penalty,” says Rick Halperin. He says the world community stands in near unanimous protest to this barbaric practice. The United States is like a passenger left behind on the docks as the world ship sets sale without us on this issue, waving ‘bon voyage’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=948&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enough! It&#8217;s time to end the war and wage a Just Peace</title>
		<link>http://houstonmennonite.org/2011/10/05/enough-its-time-to-end-the-war-and-wage-a-just-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the longest war in US history enters its 11th year on October 6, it&#8217;s time to say &#8220;Enough!&#8221; War, as Martin Luther King Jr said, is &#8220;an enemy of the poor&#8221; and has brought us to the worst economic decline in nearly 100 years. As I&#8217;ve said earlier, &#8220;We’re scheduled to spend $113 Billion in Afghanistan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=929&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Standing with History against state-sponsored, church-approved executions</title>
		<link>http://houstonmennonite.org/2011/09/13/standing-with-history-against-state-sponsored-church-approved-executions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you why debate audiences who cheer the death penalty frighten me. On January 5, 1527 the first Protestant reformer was killed by state-sponsored, church-approved authorities under what they believed to be &#8220;God&#8217;s will.&#8221; Felix Manz was the first of more than 25,000 Protestant martyrs known as Anabaptists (Mennonites are Anabaptists), drowned in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=921&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-emptive war rhetoric steps outside Christian tradition</title>
		<link>http://houstonmennonite.org/2011/09/01/pre-emptive-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama is not Christian enough for some mysterious reason even though he&#8217;s a professed Christian. Mitt Romney is not Christian enough because he&#8217;s Mormon. All kinds of litmus tests are established for when its ok or not ok for our national leaders to step outside of Christian wisdom and thought. Recently, several candidates have taken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=914&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations with myself</title>
		<link>http://houstonmennonite.org/2011/08/26/conversations-with-myself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have it from a reliable source it’s okay for me to say the following sentence out loud (and actually mean it): “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”  I spent the last 3 days at a local FaithWalking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=910&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned about how I’m wired by being un-wired for over 2 weeks</title>
		<link>http://houstonmennonite.org/2011/08/22/what-i-learned-about-how-i%e2%80%99m-wired-by-being-un-wired-for-over-2-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last couple of weeks I’ve been on vacation. Many of you know this by my lack of response to your comments. Our family trip was fantastic for its ordinariness. But one aspect of my time away was wildly meaningful for me: I unplugged. That’s right, I took an extended tech-Sabbath, a time off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&amp;blog=6008326&amp;post=907&amp;subd=houstonmennonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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