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		<title>Book Tour &#8211; Night of the Living Dead Christian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually don’t go for books about zombies, vampires and werewolves or any other “sci-fi/fantasy” book for that matter.  But having read Matt Mikalatos’ first book Imaginary Jesus and knowing how completely off the wall that one was, I knew I had to give Night of the Living Dead Christians a shot.  We join Mikalatos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1233&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Force of Nature</title>
		<link>http://eskypades.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/book-review-force-of-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a love/hate relationship with Wal-Mart.  Seeing as I’m not made of money, Wal-Mart’s low prices, especially on groceries, are a great help to my family’s budget.  Additionally, it is a good example of how capitalism and the free market works.  Sam Walton started his business small and by offering consumers goods that they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1229&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; The Barber Who Wanted to Pray</title>
		<link>http://eskypades.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/book-review-the-barber-who-wanted-to-pray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Barber Who Wanted to Pray, the story unfolds as we join a family gathered together for family worship.  One of the children asks her father how come he could pray so beautifully.  In answer, the father tells them the true story of how Herr Peter once asked his famous client, Martin Luther, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1225&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review – American Emperor</title>
		<link>http://eskypades.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/book-review-%e2%80%93-american-emperor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mention Aaron Burr’s name and the first thing that comes to a person’s mind will most likely be his infamous duel with Alexander Hamilton.  What might not be so well known is the path Burr took after he fled New York or the fact that, even during his tenure as vice-president under Jefferson, he was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1220&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food for thought</title>
		<link>http://eskypades.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/food-for-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“We spend so much energy wishing we were someone else.  Don’t waste your time on that.  Christ has completed the work for us.  We are his and he is ours, and in him we rest in triune love.  Why waste time thinking we are not sufficient and being jealous over those we think are sufficient?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1215&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Give Them Grace</title>
		<link>http://eskypades.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/book-review-give-them-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a parent who wants perfect kids?  Adjust your parenting style to any number of the hundreds of books on parenting currently in print and you’ll be the successful parent you’ve always wanted to be with the successful children you’ve always wanted! Sadly, this is the message of many parenting books that draw the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1209&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scared fish</title>
		<link>http://eskypades.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/scared-fish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I was going through some old notes and came across this entry I had written in May 2006, just four months after we brought Carlos and Jeremiah home.  Enjoy!) I am finding out that 4-year olds can and most often will interpret what you say QUITE literally. We were shopping a few days ago and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1205&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Board Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love playing board games and have for as long as I can remember.   When we weren’t playing Legos, my brother, sister &#38; I used to spend hours playing board games in our younger years, sometimes making up our own rules but mostly playing by the original rules.  In addition to the usual ones such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1199&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; The Unlikely Disciple</title>
		<link>http://eskypades.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/book-review-the-unlikely-disciple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would happen if you took a student from Brown University,  a decidedly liberal college, and sent him for one semester to one of the bastions of conservative education, Liberty University (LU)?  While this sounds like the makings of yet another “reality” TV show, it is exactly the situation Kevin Roose placed himself in during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1186&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; The Band That Played On</title>
		<link>http://eskypades.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/book-review-the-band-that-played-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any discussion of the sinking of the Titanic will usually include a mention of the heroic band of men who, even though facing certain death, played their instruments to the last, providing some measure of comfort and serenity to their fellow passengers.  As a band, their last act lives on in fame, but as individuals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskypades.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8402343&amp;post=1182&amp;subd=eskypades&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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