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		<title>Child Casualities of the Good News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A remarkable letter of apology, signed by the chairman of the board of directors of the Christian &#38; Missionary Alliance, was printed in the February 2009 issue of Alliance Life, the denomination’s official magazine. The board acknowledged “its deepest regrets for the significant trauma” experienced by vulnerable children of missionaries, and apologized contritely for decades [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2009/04/20/child-casualities-of-the-good-news/</link>
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		<title>Atonement in Gran Torino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new movie Gran Torino (2009) is a remarkable exclamation point to the Clint Eastwood film genre. From memorable earlier films like Dirty Harry and Unforgiven, we are accustomed to witnessing grim vigilante violence that poisons the avenger and leaves little room for hope. We are familiar by now with Clint Eastwood’s steely eyes, lined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2009/02/22/atonement-in-gran-torino/</link>
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		<title>The Lost Shepherd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The scandalous Ted Haggard, recently ousted president of the National Association of Evangelicals, has resurfaced. You’ll remember him, no doubt, as the Colorado mega-church pastor whose secret meth-addled trysts with a homosexual prostitute finally came to light a couple of years ago. His devastated church removed him from office, but gave him a full year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2009/01/19/the-lost-shepherd/</link>
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		<title>A Sad Day for Evangelicalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a sad day for the evangelical movement. The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) just tossed Richard Cizik overboard. A more apt metaphor might be that some biggies in the NAE, who had been stalking him for a while, finally nailed their target. Charles Colson responded to the news of Cizik’s departure with this: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2008/12/12/a-sad-day-for-evangelicalism/</link>
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		<title>It All Starts with a Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have entered the Advent season once again. The Sunday before Advent was the final one in the annual church calendar—Christ the King Sunday. The whole cycle culminated in a celebration of Christ’s final victory and glory. It ended on a high note. But now with Advent it starts up all over again. We begin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2008/12/04/it-all-start-with-a-child/</link>
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		<title>Baseball Salaries in Moral Perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to ESPN and local sports pundits Trevor Hoffman, the future baseball Hall of Famer and closer for the San Diego Padres since the early 1990s, has been treated shabbily. Despite all he’s done for that organization, the Padres offered him a paltry $4 million for next season. After he pondered this unacceptable proposal for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2008/11/17/baseball-salaries-in-moral-perspective/</link>
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		<title>The Politics of Intimidation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the fish die you know there’s something wrong with the water. When the bees disappear, it means the ecosystem is in trouble. When it’s the height of the election season, and there are hardly any signs on neighborhood lawns, you begin to suspect that something may be amiss this time around. The truth is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2008/10/24/the-politics-of-intimidation/</link>
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		<title>Toward an Integrated Spirituality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I joined some teenage Inuit friends on a two-day Arctic caribou hunt up the west (left-hand side) of Canada’s Hudson’s Bay. This is still one of the most unpopulated places in the whole world. We felt how small and mortal we were in that vast, silent emptiness that spread to the horizons. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2008/10/16/toward-an-integrated-spirituality/</link>
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		<title>The Quest for Significance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Greek poet Homer, Sisyphus was a tragic figure who had had gotten on the bad side of the gods. As a result, the poor guy was blinded and doomed to push a massive rock up a mountain. He had no choice but to try and fulfill his assignment. He strained and grunted, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2008/10/07/the-quest-for-significance/</link>
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		<title>Our Curious Shortage of Saints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the first night of our seminary course in Christian social ethics, and the classroom was packed. At our school we have three required courses in theology, but just one in ethics. I don’t want to read too much into this uneven weighting of our core curriculum, but most would agree that it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2008/09/29/our-curious-shortage-of-saints/</link>
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