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		<title>Books Openers: Harvey Cox — You Don’t Have to Believe to Be a Christian</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'd like to recommend Harvey Cox's newest book to all my non-believer friends. So many of the sophisticated, highly educated people I know labor under the assumption that they have to believe - to assent intellectually to - the factuality of traditional Christian teaching. They don't. And here's why: The idea of a fixed creed to which a true Christian must subscribe dates back, not to the life of Jesus, but to the emperor Constantine.

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		<title>GodsBigBlog: Why Meditate &#8212; When I Could Be Sweeping the Garage?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've tried meditating a few times - a very few times. Why would I want to sit inside my mind when I could be out in the front yard, snapping dead blossoms off the rhododendron, or in the garage, sweeping away the cobwebs?
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