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		<title>Six Questions from the Hell Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 will always be remembered as the year of the &#8220;hell debate” because of the explosion of Christian writing that rattled the popular evangelical conception of hell. What has become clear is that it’s not a debate between those &#8220;for&#8221; and &#8220;against&#8221; hell, but rather a debate between different possible hells. The following six questions are my attempt to explore the theological presumptions that explain how we come up with such different hells. 1) Is God&#8217;s being independent of the universe or is God the source of the universe&#8217;s being? The modern imagination pictures God as another person like we are people. He&#8217;s invisible, omnipotent, and omnipresent but His being is seen as completely independent from ours. This is very different from the ancient Christian view that God was the source of all being, expressed most  succinctly in Colossians 1:17: &#8221;In Him all things hold together.” If all things depend on God for existence and hell is eternal separation from God, then hell is the non-existence that results from rejecting the source of our being. The punitive nature of hell becomes literal rather than metaphorical only in modernity when it becomes possible to imagine existence independent of the presence of God. 2)... ]]></description>
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		<title>What Does Pepper Spray Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Guyton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like millions of others, I watched a disturbing video last weekend of UC Davis students getting pepper-sprayed by campus police lieutenant John Pike. The most surreal part of the video was the casual nonchalance with which Lt. Pike sprayed painful toxins into students&#8217; faces. It was as though he were spraying Roundup in a garden, and it made me think of an experience I had in my garden. I like to harvest my own jalapeño and poblano seeds. The first time, I didn&#8217;t use gloves. My hands were soon covered with a burning that made it impossible to think about anything else. Then I did something very stupid. I itched my nose. This made me sneeze repeatedly. So my eyes got itchy, and before I knew it, I had spread the evil pepper juice to my eyes as well. Every time I tried to wash a part of me that was on fire, it made the burning spread. It took several painful experiences before I caved and made the very unmanly move of buying some latex gloves to handle my peppers with. Pepper spray is made of concentrated capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers hot. The difference between my painful... ]]></description>
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		<title>Eroticizing the Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Guyton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the lead pastor of a contemporary worship service, I have had a lot of time to meditate upon the lyrics of Jeremy Riddle&#8217;s song &#8220;Sweetly Broken,&#8221; which we sing perhaps every other weekend. The verses are a catechism of penal substitution theology: &#8220;For on [the cross] my Savior both bruised and crushed / Showed that God is love / And God is just&#8221; and &#8220;I was under Your wrath / Now through the cross I&#8217;m reconciled.&#8221; I often cringe at the way that an overzealous worship of substitutionary atonement creates an account of divine justice in which God is way more invested in making humanity pay infinitely for every small infraction against Him than He cares about standing up for the widows, orphans, and aliens. I&#8217;ve also spent many hours of my life wrestling with the Greek word orge which gets translated as &#8220;wrath&#8221; in English, but is also etymologically related to our word &#8220;orgy.&#8221; It seems like there is more going on with God&#8217;s orge than just intense anger. I tend to think of God&#8217;s orge as expressing the cataclysmic dissonance that occurs when God&#8217;s all-consuming, infinite love confronts our stand-offish self-reliance and self-justification. But what really makes me... ]]></description>
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