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		<title>Why I Covered the Night (and didn&#8217;t spend it playing Halo.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Friday night was Cover the Night, a night where young people the world over &#8216;covered&#8217; (more like &#8216;spiced up!&#8217;) their towns with posters and chalk messages to &#8216;Make Kony Famous&#8217; and tried to bring awareness to the four or so people that still hadn&#8217;t heard the hubbub surrounding this movement aimed at arresting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dating tips from The Terminator</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, The Terminator stops by to give us some tips on dating, living to the fullest, and finding the meaning of life. Here we go! By the way, these are all real, actual quotes from The Terminator series. Sam: “Hey Terminator! How’s it going? You were my hero when I was 7, did you know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean the toilets!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember back when you were growing up, and you&#8217;d get in a bad mood, and your mom would say &#8220;You need to check that attitude, mister!&#8221; Or if it was dad, he might just say &#8221; time for a &#8216;tude check!&#8221; And if you continued to gripe and stomp your feet in a perfectly justifiable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with University?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I begin a new series of thoughts on the university experience, drawing from some memories of my undergrad years, and eschewing some thoughts on how the system may have affected me/my generation. &#8211; University students are a peculiar bunch. They take pride in such things as remembering in detail every single thing they drank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what dogs can teach us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this last summer one day, and rediscovered it just now. and it might be the best thing I&#8217;ve ever written. &#8212; I am sitting on a park bench by the beach in a very expensive neighborhood of Vancouver. A dog that looks like the muppet spawn of Jim Henson runs past me at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There Must be Hope&#8221; &#8211; A message to my atheist friends.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can the world really be fixed by technique?  By ideas? Or does it need love most of all? Not the kind of love you see in movies or hear about in songs, but the kind of love that buries deep through painful digging and takes root, slowly. ]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT THE FLIP IS GOING ON: On God and Tim Tebow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We take a break from our regularly scheduled programming (namely, making Christian versions of internet sensations) with this, because, well, its an internet/regular media sensation that&#8217;s already Christian. His name is Tim Tebow. You may or may not be familiar with this (considering most of my readership is in Canada), but recently, there&#8217;s been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Christian)FirstWorldProblems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we started our series yesterday on &#8220;Why Young Christians Lose Interest in God&#8221; to find that the problem isn&#8217;t really orthodoxy or anything, it&#8217;s just that the internet is more interesting than church. So We uncovered the most popular things on the internet, and are now in the process of &#8220;copying culture for Christ&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Young People Lose Interest in God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that Jesus needs some new PR: a new marketing strategy, one that appeals to young people and seems interesting to them, like the internet. 
So how can the church compete with the internet?
The same as how the church competed with adult-oriented novels, children's television, and 80's hair metal:
By COPYING it]]></description>
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		<title>Book Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So last night I had a little party in my home town to celebrate the launch of my book on Kindle (which you can also read on ipads, iphones, and computers! if you get the free kindle app). A great time was had by all! I gave a talk called &#8216;On Music: Living Like A [...]]]></description>
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