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		<title>As Theology Totters in the West</title>
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The People’s Republic of China has enthusiastically embraced Western science and technology, and modernity&#8217;s materialistic worldview. Pictured above is the imposing business faculty of China’s Renmin (the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2010/07/21/the-decline-and-fall-of-theology-in-the-west/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Smoke Stacks</title>
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Beijing is a polluted city. Not even the spin-doctors deny that the air here is bad. On a windy day you can taste it. But upon my arrival it still came as a surprise to see a huge ten-storey industrial smoke stack right across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2010/06/28/the-future-of-smoke-stacks/</link>
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		<title>Quanxi and the Image of God</title>
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Yesterday I had the unusual privilege of attending a business management conference in Shanghai. It was sponsored by the Euro-China Centre for Leadership and Responsibility (ECCLAR), and its purpose was to explore the “Practical Wisdom for Management” present in the Chinese classical traditions—especially Confucianism, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2010/06/19/quanxi-and-the-image-of-god/</link>
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		<title>The Canary in the Gulf of Mexico</title>
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At the moment the world is fixated on the video-cam of oil spewing up out of the earth to defile the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2010/06/06/the-canary-in-the-coal-mine/</link>
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		<title>Please, Help Me!</title>
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One of the near-universal functions of religion is to solicit help from the Higher Power to meet our needs. The main function of prayer, it seems, is petition—asking, begging, making promises and cutting deals, in order (we hope) to get stuff. I saw this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion as Therapy in China</title>
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I have been in Beijing, China for about three weeks now as a visiting scholar at Renmin (the People’s) University, founded by Chairman Mao, and at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. I am comfortably housed in the Foreign Expert Building on the University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2010/05/25/east-meets-west-on-religion/</link>
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		<title>The Rest of the Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week the Los Angeles Times ran a brief obituary of the distinguished English scholar Antony Flew (1923-2010). Flew was a high-profile academic philosopher noted, even among impressive peers, as an exceptional intellect. After service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he studied at Oxford and there participated in weekly meetings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Big Mac&#8221; and Compunction</title>
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In a televised interview this past week Mark McGuire (Big Mac), one of major league baseball&#8217;s greatest home run hitters ever, admitted something he’s never been willing to admit before, even during a United States congressional hearing. He finally conceded that during the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the War in Afghanistan a Just War?</title>
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Last week a friend phoned me to describe a bumper sticker she had noticed on a car in the parking lot of a local mall. Playing off a familiar query, it posed this question: “What would Jesus bomb?” It’s a disturbing question because few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://glenscorgie.com/2009/09/28/is-the-war-in-afghanistan-a-just-war/</link>
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		<title>A Russian View of Sexuality</title>
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Last week we set off for a brief vacation up at Yosemite in California’s Sierra mountain range. On the way up, in the wickedly hot central valley around Fresno, we stopped into a Borders bookstore for some light reading material, and I came across [...]]]></description>
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