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		<title>What #AltHolyWeek Teaches Us</title>
		<link>http://newmethofesto.com/2013/04/03/what-altholyweek-teaches-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy Week is supposed to be a painful time for followers of Jesus. However, I worry that it is painful for the wrong reasons. For many Christians, the suffering and death of Jesus is simply understood as a sacrificial act on our behalf. Jesus, though without sin himself, had to die on a cross so [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=596&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus. Alone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I conclude my alternative Holy Week story. This creative writing exercise has profoundly impacted me. As I reflected on the Biblical story of Jesus, the radical, nonviolent nature of the Son of Man hit me in a powerful way. Tomorrow, I plan to blog about my conclusions as to what it means that Jesus [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=589&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Cross for the Charlatan Formerly Known as the King of the Jews</title>
		<link>http://newmethofesto.com/2013/03/30/a-cross-for-the-charlatan-formerly-known-as-the-king-of-the-jews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wesmagruder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the sixth of a series of posts which offer an alternative view of Holy Week. A warning: this is just a wacky exercise of creative writing that asks the question, “What if it had all happened like this?” Chapter 6 Chuck spent most of the next morning busily chopping wood, measuring planks and assembling [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=585&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judas&#8217; Last Supper</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The following is the fifth of a series of posts which offer an alternative view of Holy Week. A warning: this is just a wacky exercise of creative writing that asks the question, “What if it had all happened like this?” Chapter 5 Golda scurried around the kitchen, moving pots and sipping spoons. She [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=582&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spy Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the fourth of a series of posts which offer an alternative view of Holy Week. A warning: this is just a wacky exercise of creative writing that asks the question, “What if it had all happened like this?” Chapter 4 Deep underground in a dank cell sat a poor substitute for a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=571&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus was Innocent</title>
		<link>http://newmethofesto.com/2013/03/28/jesus-was-innocent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wesmagruder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all weeks, this is the week that followers of Jesus ought to be thinking seriously about justice. This is not the time to be absorbed with private, sentimental thoughts of lilies and butterflies, or even of a peaceful life after death. Our faith evolved out of a profound injustice that was perpetrated on an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=565&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Uprooted Fig Tree</title>
		<link>http://newmethofesto.com/2013/03/26/the-uprooted-fig-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the third of a series of posts which offer an alternative view of Holy Week. A warning: this is just a wacky exercise of creative writing that asks the question, “What if it had all happened like this?” &#160; &#160; Chapter 3 A wood fire shot sparks into the night air, as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=559&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winning the Temple</title>
		<link>http://newmethofesto.com/2013/03/25/winning-the-temple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The following is the second of a series of posts which offer an alternative view of Holy Week. This is just a wacky exercise of creative writing that asks the question, &#8220;What if this is what had happened?&#8221; Chapter 2 Miriam yawned for the fifty-first time this morning, and tapped the tabletop absentmindedly. Her [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=552&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NaPalm Sunday</title>
		<link>http://newmethofesto.com/2013/03/24/napalm-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In anticipation of a week of sober meditation on Jesus&#8217; suffering, death and resurrection, I offer the following series of posts which offer an alternative view of Holy Week. None of us Americans would likely have allowed Jesus&#8217; story to play out the way it did. We prefer stories of heroic violence, in which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=546&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Iraq War Was My Fault</title>
		<link>http://newmethofesto.com/2013/03/23/the-iraq-war-was-my-fault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember what it felt like ten years ago this week. The dread had been building for months. The sabers had been rattling for some time. Though there were certainly plenty of folks who were ready to “finish off the job” that had begun over ten years before, it seemed as if the great masses [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newmethofesto.com&#038;blog=35819911&#038;post=540&#038;subd=newmethofesto&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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