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		<title>Obama the Muslim!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melvin Bray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This foolishness of Obama being a secret Muslim, like the hoopla over the so-called &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque,&#8221; only serves to take perfectly innocuous (yea even noble) ideals of faith and defaming them to the point that the mere mention of the words &#8220;Islam,&#8221; &#8220;Muslim&#8221; or &#8220;mosque&#8221; conjure up anxiety. The real issue is not whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prayer for Haiti: A Response to Robertson, Rush and Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melvin Bray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published with sojo.net&#8230; Hear our cry, O Lord. Attend unto our earnest prayer. From cracks in the earth, O Lord, do we cry unto you. We first confess that we do not know how to pray for a tragedy such as this. With each statement we oscillate between glibness or melodrama. Our neighbors in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family News</title>
		<link>http://melvinbray.com/2008/08/07/family-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melvin Bray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends,Leslie and I want to inform you that I have been offered a post teaching English at my high school alma mater Pine Forge Academy (a boarding school near Pottstown, PA). Thus, we are relocating temporarily. The prayer is that grad school will bring us back to Atlanta fall of next year. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Changes Everything: An Interview with Brian McLaren</title>
		<link>http://melvinbray.com/2008/02/06/this-changes-everything-an-interview-with-brian-mclaren/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melvin Bray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A statement like &#8220;this changes everything&#8221; or &#8220;everything must change&#8221; is what one might call idiomatic hyperbole: rhetorical exaggeration for the effect of conveying an overall meaning that is larger than the sum of its parts. Thus, when I came to the book Everything Must Change, I didn&#8217;t expect it to be a literal &#8220;theory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Better World is Possible</title>
		<link>http://melvinbray.com/2007/05/27/a-better-world-is-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 22:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melvin Bray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new story online. It was written in support of the Faith House Manhattan project initiated by Samir Selmanovic. Faith House Manhattan is an experiment in God&#8217;s hopes and dreams that will create space for Christians, Jews and Muslims to seek God together for the good of the world. The protagonist of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;It Shall Be Seen&quot;</title>
		<link>http://melvinbray.com/2007/03/04/it-shall-be-seen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melvin Bray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(originally told 10/9-1994) "…and with your blood you purchased humanity for God." Revelation 5:9b Revelations sat in Howell Park, as he did just about every afternoon nowadays, reading The West End Newletter. As his gaze drifted north he caught site of the belfry of the Ralph David Abernathy All Kindreds Cathedral. "How long has it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Haven</title>
		<link>http://melvinbray.com/2007/02/17/freedom-haven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melvin Bray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I published a new story on the Village Half-Wit blog, entitled &#8220;Freedom Haven&#8221;. It is a retelling of the very first story I ever told. It was originally told at the Triana SDA Church just outside Huntsville, Alabama, when I was a ministerial student at Oakwood College. The pastor, I remember fondly, was Michael Faison, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Haven</title>
		<link>http://melvinbray.com/2007/02/17/freedom-haven-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melvin Bray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["…And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations."Rev. 22:2b It was a sweltering hot, Georgia day. The elders and deacons were early in formation: two at every entrance, two in the parking lot, two on the sidewalk down on the street. The First Elder was determined to maintain control this [...]]]></description>
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