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		<title>The Story of a Stuttering, Afflicted Boy Raised Up to Be a Deliverer of Humanity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been fascinated and bewildered as I&#8217;ve been thinking about revivalism lately. Check out this collection of photos of an Oral Roberts healing service and try making sense of what&#8217;s going on. The whole phenomenon of the big tent revival seems to me to hold some profound keys to the nature of American identity. Charles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamsteward.wordpress.com&blog=1208822&post=308&subd=adamsteward&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Bacevich on Some Recent Uses of &#8220;A Shining City on a Hill&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Bacevich is one of the few voices in the American political scene today that has anything worthwhile to say.  In the words of a friend of mine, &#8220;He&#8217;s not a moron.&#8221;  I can&#8217;t wait to begin reading his new book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, which has been on backorder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamsteward.wordpress.com&blog=1208822&post=216&subd=adamsteward&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur McGill on Boring Heavens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 08:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a pretty fantastic book by Arthur McGill called Life and Death: An American Theology.  He is one of those authors that have a way of packing the entire content of their message into every sentence they write.  So, if you care to read this book, be ready to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamsteward.wordpress.com&blog=1208822&post=31&subd=adamsteward&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Flannery</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur McGill, in a phenomenal book entitled Life and Death: An American Theology, makes the argument that the ethos of America at large is marked by a fatal need to extinguish all visible signs of death from its existence.  This, for him, is motivated by an ultimate fear of death, wherein one believes it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamsteward.wordpress.com&blog=1208822&post=23&subd=adamsteward&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts On the Development of the Modern American Religious Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of glaring selectivity, I must nevertheless point out three predominant features of the American mythos: 1) Liberty, by which we mean self-determination, freedom from the external demands of others; 2) Prosperity, by which we mean the possession of expendable wealth; and 3) Security, by which we mean the extermination of all threats [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamsteward.wordpress.com&blog=1208822&post=6&subd=adamsteward&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Me and Barak on National Health Care</title>
		<link>http://adamsteward.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/me-and-barak-on-national-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barak Obama, as far as I can tell (which knowledge comes from scanning his book for about half an hour at Costco) is a good man, and a genuine Christian.  From his stump speech, he is much more optimistic about the potential of Americanism than I am but there are quite a few things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamsteward.wordpress.com&blog=1208822&post=3&subd=adamsteward&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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