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	<description>APOLOGETICS FOR A POST-CHRISTIAN AGE</description>
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		<title>Blind Hopes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Atheists love the story of Prometheus. A closer reading shows they are both less like and more like Prometheus than they care to admit. They’re less like Prometheus  because at least the titan saved humanity from the wrath of Zeus. Atheists haven't saved anybody. And they’re more like Prometheus in that they need to offer a piece of deception along with their gift of all that counts as knowledge.]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2012/blind-hopes/</link>
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		<title>Selling Heaven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Nelson – the world’s biggest religious publishing house – now belongs to the secular publishing house, HarperCollins.[1] If you look at the spine of your Bible, there’s a good chance you’ll see the Nelson name. One of Nelson’s titles, Heaven is for Real, is on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. On amazon.com, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2011/selling-heaven/</link>
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		<title>Hawking&#039;s Grand Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend asked recently if I had seen any worthy critiques of Hawking&#8217;s latest work. I haven&#8217;t had time to delve in to the book, but it&#8217;s been on my radar. In the links below I have tried to indicate whether the material is written from a theistic perspective or not, and whether the article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2011/hawkings-grand-design/</link>
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		<title>Conspiring with Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For skeptics like Bart Ehrman, the key to undermining the Christian faith is to undermine the Christian text. After all, faith “comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” But what if we are not really hearing the word of Christ? What if we are really hearing the word of power-hungry men who conspired to give us their particular spin on the person and nature of Jesus Christ?]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2011/conspiring-with-truth/</link>
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		<title>Life After Youth Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We know that the way to heaven is narrow and hard to find. We know what Jesus taught about the soils. Some attrition is to be expected among our young people, right? But then we have to remind ourselves that these are our kids growing in the soil of our congregations and our families. These are not the un-churched, hardboiled people of the world. So how can we slow the exodus?]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2011/life-after-youth-group/</link>
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		<title>Once, Twice, Three Times an Immigrant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As immigrants, we expected to find a smattering of xenophobia and nativism here and there. Finding those attitudes in the church was, I have to confess, a little harder to take.]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2011/once-twice-three-times-an-immigrant/</link>
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		<title>The King’s Bible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The King James Version of the Bible is the epitome of staid, conservative traditionalism – that, at least, is how it often looks to us precisely 400 years after its publication. In fact, the KJV capped a sequence of social upheavals that took the English Bible from the dark and secret underground of a persecuted reform movement to the bright light of official and popular acceptance.]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2011/the-king%e2%80%99s-bible/</link>
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		<title>Suffering Fools Gladly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My fellow students were trying to respond to the problem of suffering by citing Scripture. Eventually they were shut down with a simple statement from the professor: “But I don’t believe the Bible.” It was then that I knew what had gone wrong.]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2011/suffering-fools-gladly/</link>
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		<title>The Decline and Fall of Edward Gibbon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People of faith are tempted to mine Gibbon’s work for insights on the decline and fall of Western civilization. Gibbon's thesis, however, put the blame for Rome's demise squarely on the shoulders of Christianity.]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2011/the-decline-and-fall-of-edward-gibbon/</link>
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		<title>The De-conversion of Doctor Who</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of examples out there of seemingly active, committed believers losing their way. But the condition of unbelief is not always arrived at through the stereotypical channels of materialistic science, humanist philosophy, and hedonistic morality. Sometimes there is no arrival because there was never a departure. When we are told of an atheist’s journey from faith to faithlessness, it is always worth checking his ports of call.]]></description>
		<link>http://trevormajor.com/2011/the-de-conversion-of-doctor-who/</link>
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