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	<title>Provoketive Magazine &#187; Jennifer Luitwieler</title>
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		<title>U2 and the Call to Follow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I hear the word follow, every single time, I think of my 16 year old self, getting ready for Club, and then I think about Bono. Yeah, that Bono; the dude with the shades from U2. I hear him making his fervent pronouncement, &#8220;I will&#8230;follow!&#8221; at the end of the song of the same name. Who&#8217;d have thought Bono would be a sort of John the Baptist for me, making the way for Jesus in my heart? It was U2 and the noblesse oblige of some suburban mothers who taught me that follow wasn&#8217;t a four letter word. That following Him didn&#8217;t have to take my (very high) cool factor to the basement. Club was where church kids with attitude spent their Fridays. It was the one place where we could both listen to our alternative music and ask questions about God that we didn&#8217;t want to get into with our parents. It was where the mothers plying us with vats of Kool-aid smiled evenly at everyone; no matter how we dressed. A few churches across Pittsburgh opened wide their social halls for a cover band, led by the long-haired cool guy Ramsey, and let us dance in... ]]></description>
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		<title>The Lexicons of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the day, my parents were hippie evangelicals concerned with Justice, Peace, and Community. They were all about Mercy, Equality and Grace. I learned the language of movements. My siblings and I wore &#8220;boycott grapes&#8221; buttons to school. I was in kindergarten; I have no idea what that was about. My sister and I attended a Spanish-speaking school in Rochester, NY; we were the only students for whom Spanish was not a primary language. My parents and their circle of friends mobilized protests, discussions, and debates. The adults I knew spoke openly in a way about politics and faith that seemed the marry the two in a rather lovely, if not delicate, romance. Being faithful, being a member of The Church meant seeking justice for those without a voice. Made sense to me at the time. (Still makes sense to me.) During college, in an effort to take seriously this faith in which I was raised, I sought out a merry gang of evangelicals of a different sort. I learned a more complicated language. We were concerned with Salvation, Sanctification, Free Will, (I am not engaging in a debate about predestination.) and Discipleship. The ideas we discussed over midnight... ]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Valley Under a Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania is reeling under the daily waves of allegations, reports and aftershocks of a decades-long child molestation cover up at Penn State University. Check that: the nation is preoccupied with the news of every parent&#8217;s nightmare. Listening to sports radio, I&#8217;ve been impressed with the caliber of comments from regular Joe&#8217;s who have no patience for the horror of the acts or the cover up by officials. I&#8217;m also reminded of the value of conversation in dealing with major crises, the crazy history of riots in our country and the intolerance we have as a common voice for inexcusable acts against the weakest members of our society. Penn State has, until this month, enjoyed over a century as King of the Hill in terms of well known and well attended institutions of higher learning. The main campus in State College, PA is a leafy, rolling landscape populated by the freshness of youth and decades of academic professionalism. Penn State also enjoys a sort of BMOC reputation for its football program; there is, in most of Pennsylvania, the &#8220;cult of Penn State,&#8221; which prides itself on winning seasons, NFL players and the winningest coach in college ball. When we heard the... ]]></description>
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