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		<title>Why don&#8217;t Christians behave differently?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statistics consistently show that US Christians behave the same as the general population. And yet my friend Lutherant rightly says that “true Christians display the works of Christ in their lives. No one who lives contentedly in a selfish life centered on their own needs and desires should think that they have faith (James 2:17).” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=1190&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comissioned for Mission in Houston</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The classic mental model of a ‘missionary’ is someone specially tasked with a special ministry for a special location. Missionaries are different than us, do different things, and do them out there somewhere, somewhere exotic and dangerous, a place of sacrifice. That left those of us “normal” Christians at home to live “normal” lives and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=1179&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exposing Violence with Violence: A Good Friday Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this picture from Marion Indiana. It&#8217;s perfect for understanding Good Friday and helpful in understanding how young people had &#8220;fun&#8221; in 1930. It&#8217;s a great scene of young people in love, laughing, and having a good time outdoors together. But I&#8217;ll come back to this in a second. First, a question: &#8220;Can you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=1141&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surely, Not I? A Maundy Thursday Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preached April 5, 2012 at Pleasant Hills Baptist Church Mark 14:17-31,50 That the saints of history said “Yes” to God is not a story. Esther, Mary, Jesus, the Ethiopian eunuch, Dorothy Day, Rosa Parks, Dietrich Bonhoeffer are not unique because they answered the call. They are household names because of the context within which they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=1140&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surely, Not I? A Maundy Thursday Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preached April 5, 2012 at Pleasant Hills Baptist Church Mark 14:17-31,50 That the saints of history said “Yes” to God is not a story. Esther, Mary, Jesus, the Ethiopian eunuch, Dorothy Day, Rosa Parks, Dietrich Bonhoeffer are not unique because they answered the call. They are household names because of the context within which they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=1136&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Para ver mejor: Faith through Latino/a lenses</title>
		<link>http://houstonmennonite.org/2012/03/13/para-ver-mejor-faith-through-latinoa-lenses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Lent I’ve put on new glasses to help me see my faith more clearly. This is my second article exploring what I’m learning from the margins. As a young adult from south Texas, Felipe’s faith was important if not particularly relevant. Until he read James Cones’ God of the Oppressed for the first time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonmennonite.org&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=1117&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=992&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a sweatshop in your backyard?</title>
		<link>http://houstonmennonite.org/2011/10/24/is-there-a-sweatshop-in-your-backyard/</link>
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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&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=959&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=952&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=6008326&#038;post=950&#038;subd=houstonmennonite&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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