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		<title>Only One on the Market (Beyond Personality)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a good many people who say, ‘I believe in God, but not a personal God.’ They feel that the mysterious something which is behind all other things must be more than a person. Now the Christians quite agree. But the Christians are the only people who offer any idea of what a being that is beyond personality could be like. All the other people, though they say that God is beyond personality, really think of Him as something impersonal: that is, as something less than personal. If you are looking for something super-personal, something more than a person, ]]></description>
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		<title>Uganda: A Resting Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several of my friends have visited Uganda. They always describe it in terms of beauty: both in the country and in the population. I have only spent 18 hours in Uganda. On a 48-hour journey from Dallas, Texas to Yei, Sudan, Uganda became our overnight stopping point. We had a pleasant evening in a unique boarding house, where we discussed our plans for the documentary we were about to shoot. Cold cokes, a warm meal and soft bed made our short time in Uganda memorable. But our time in this blessed country was too short. Uganda, I promise to return ]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Universal Truths I Learned from Watching 725 Star Trek Episodes (and 11 Movies)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 07:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Musings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Star Trek: my final frontier. This ends the voyage of the starship Small. His three year mission: to watch every single Star Trek episode, of every single Star Trek series, in order of the Star Trek world’s timeline, boldly going where many a nerd has gone before (but in synchronistic story order). I have been a Trekker from the age of six. My first episode was “Devil in the Dark.” Captain Kirk, the icon of futuristic manliness, chases a single remaining Horta, a silicon-based alien that tunnels through caves and kills planetary miners with its super acid farts. The Horta ]]></description>
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		<title>Jungles and Deserts (The Abolition of Man)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 07:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imaginagion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis was a critic of what he called faulty educational models. As a superb educator, he was appalled with modern techniques that fostered drab repetition, dangerous doctrines (such as moral subjectivity and erroneous literary criticism), and dead methods. He sometimes claimed that he was witnessing the second death of ancient learning. In The Abolition of Man, Lewis writes, “the task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defense against the false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey ]]></description>
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		<title>Turks and Caicos: Relaxation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Turks and Caicos Islands in the West Indies are known as a tourist paradise. The first European to spot the islands was none other than Ponce De Leon. He may have unknowingly missed the fountain of youth. I’ve visited the Turks and Caicos while on a couple of cruises. Years ago, I scoffed at the idea of cruises. I wanted high adrenaline, deeply explorative travel experiences. I knew most cruises did not provide that type of experience. Cruises are safe, steady, and abundant in meeting all your desires. As far as I was concerned, they were the lazy traveler’s ]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s William Shatner&#8217;s World and We Just Live In It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 07:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don’t often get to see our heroes in a live forum, especially if they are starship captains. So when I had the chance to see William Shatner, I bought my ticket with due haste. I first saw Shatner on TV in 1974. I was six. My dad and I watched the Star Trek episode “Devil in the Dark”. Captain Kirk, the icon of futuristic manliness, chased an alien called a Horta. The Horta, which looked like a giant vomited piece of Italian sausage and cheese pizza, tunneled through caves and killed planetary miners with its super acid farts. Watching ]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Wanderings (Perelandra)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 07:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long walks delighted C.S. Lewis as much as anything else in life. His favorite holidays consisted of gathering a few friends to meander through villages and the English countryside for hours at a time. He needed no particular path.  He would simply pick a general direction and take some time to ramble. Lewis found walks to be spiritually therapeutic. When he wrote about them, he often described these walks as moments of holiness. In the second book of his space trilogy, Perelandra, the hero of the story, Ransom makes an observation: “How has He made me so separate from Himself? ]]></description>
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		<title>North Ireland: Shining in the Darkness</title>
		<link>http://www.shawnsmallstories.com/sidetracked/north-ireland-shining-in-the-darkness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 07:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[174 Trust]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 174 Trust is a place of peace straddling the once-sectarian neighborhoods in the center of Belfast, North Ireland. My friend, Bill Shaw, is the director of the Trust (www.174trust.org), a non-denominational Christian organization facilitating a variety of essential community projects in North Belfast. The 174 Trust is committed to a process of community development based on building relationships with local people, working together to identify and meet local needs. The heart of their work and witness is “the proclamation of the kingdom of God through demonstrating Christ&#8217;s values in action.” Since 1982, the 174 Trust has been a catalyst ]]></description>
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		<title>The Fangs of Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blow-up started, as it often does, with a friend texting me an article about a controversial religious subject. Thankfully, he sent it directly to me rather than posting it publicly. Instead of staying between him and me, our ugly debate may have gone public. I wasn’t sure why he was sending the article to me. I didn’t take time to probe his motives. I was too angry to actually give him the benefit of the doubt. Instead, my fangs came out and I went for his throat. My good friend, of twenty-odd years, would feel the weight of my ]]></description>
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		<title>An Intellectual Sigh of Relief (Christian Behavoiur)</title>
		<link>http://www.shawnsmallstories.com/tomes-of-lewis/an-intellectual-sigh-of-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Small</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tomes of Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Behaviour]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intellect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many people, Lewis’ writings are their first dip into a baptism of the intellect. His compelling down-to-earth examples help explain complicated theological and philosophical concepts. He is an everyman’s philosopher. Anyone who picks up a Lewis book has access to what many intellectual and theological snobs feel should be left to those of great intellectual prowess. In his book Christian Behaviour, Lewis compels every person to love the Lord their God with ALL of their mind. “It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen ]]></description>
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