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		<title>Introduction to World Religions now on iTunes U</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it has been a long time since my last posting.  For a number of reasons.    However, I am pleased to say that there are nine world religion video summaries that are now available on iTunes U!   They are a part of the RELS201 Introduction to World Religions course that I teach at APUS.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monotheism vs Monolatry?  What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a test &#8211; does the subject line above strike you as intriguing or uninteresting?  Well, believe it or not, if you identify yourself as either Jewish or Christian, you should find it interesting.  Monotheism and monolatry both have to do with how the people of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible (and also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you ever seen a 1,600 Year Old Manuscript of the Bible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Biblical Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted to look at a 1,600 year old manuscript of the Bible?  If so, you can now go to Codex Sinaiticus and view digital images of the actual pages of the ancient codex.  It is pretty impressive, especially since the actual pages themselves are stored in various locations around the world and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distance Learning: It Is Older Than You Think! (maybe)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a recent article at EmailWire.com that states that the model of &#8220;distance education&#8221; is over 100 years old.  Which is true.  Unfortunately, however, the article also links modern online education with older distance education.  And that, in my opinion anyway, is a faulty comparison. What is the difference, you ask?  Good question.  :-) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angels, Guides or Both?</title>
		<link>http://wessner.ca/?p=181</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another question from a few years ago (I like digging up these old ones!): Question - &#8220;What is the difference between guides and angels?&#8221; Reply -That is a good question, and the answer depends to a small degree on what your current understanding of the two terms is (ie. in what context are you using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aleppo, Sinaiticus and Qumran</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biblical Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who like original language and manuscript stuff, here are three very cool sites: The Aleppo Codex (Hebrew Bible / Old Testament) Codex Sinaiticus (Septuagint and New Testament) The Great Isaiah Scroll (Qumran / Dead Sea) Happy reading!  Download as PDF Related Posts:Have you ever seen a 1,600 Year Old Manuscript of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water From a Deep Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries, by Gerald L. Sittser (InterVarsity Press, 2007) It takes a gifted writer to walk his readers down a well-worn path, and still be able to point out new or yet unseen discoveries along the way. Yet that is exactly what has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Copernican</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution, by Dennis Danielson (Walker &#38; Company, 2006) What is it like to walk in the shadow of a giant? It takes a special person to grasp the genius of someone else&#8217;s yet-unpublished masterpiece, and then passionately, relentlessly and obsessively bring it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Guide to Christian Spirituality</title>
		<link>http://wessner.ca/?p=21</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Little Guide to Christian Spirituality: Three Dimensions of Life with God, by Glen G. Scorgie (Zondervan, 2007) In the crowded field of Christian spirituality, seldom does a single book come along that combines academic research, personal insight, and spiritual analysis as effectively and accessibly as Glen Scorgie&#8217;s introductory handbook.  Penetrating in insight, and robust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toward a Paradigm of the Old Testament Sabbath</title>
		<link>http://wessner.ca/?p=27</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 23:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biblical Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a paper that I wrote about a decade ago (I feel old now) &#8211; it is one of the spiritual disciplines that I not only studied, but also subsequently applied in my personal life (and the relational and spiritual benefits have been amazing!): &#8220;[There is] as basic moral principle which pervades biblical ethics [...]]]></description>
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