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		<title>A new home and a new look</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 20:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grumpy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a couple of months of effort, The Curmudgeon has progressed to a new blogging platform – indeed, a new blog. The climb from Blogger to WordPress with a brand-new custom theme is just about complete. There are still some tweaks to the design, some broken links, and some formatting changes required by the move <a class="read-the-rest" href="http://www.curmudgeons-progress.com/personal/a-new-home-and-a-new-look/">Read the rest </a>]]></description>
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		<title>A toxic orthodoxy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grumpy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is my own; I doubt my &#8220;guest&#8221; here would agree with it. But I think that threats of retaliation and un-Biblical litmus tests do indeed suggest some level of toxicity. I have previously written about ill effects of dogmatic insistence on a young Earth and a literal six day creation. <a class="read-the-rest" href="http://www.curmudgeons-progress.com/christianity/a-toxic-orthodoxy/">Read the rest </a>]]></description>
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		<title>PCUSA: Goodbye to all that</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grumpy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My church and I have joined the Midwest Presbytery of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). After a long, divisive, frustrating struggle with a stiff-necked and ungracious Administrative Commission (AC), we (the session) finally said &#8220;enough!&#8221;. We scheduled an information meeting and vote without the AC&#8217;s permission.
More than 300 of 550 active members showed up last <a class="read-the-rest" href="http://www.curmudgeons-progress.com/pcusa/pcusa-goodbye-to-all-that/">Read the rest </a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paris!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grumpy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Paris.
I knew I would love it before I ever set foot in its streets. I knew it my junior year in high school (1961-1962) when I took my first French class. Last May 21, my wife Debbie and I stepped aboard the TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse &#8211; France&#8217;s 200 MPH passenger train) <a class="read-the-rest" href="http://www.curmudgeons-progress.com/personal/paris/">Read the rest </a>]]></description>
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		<title>Discipline in the PCUSA: An undisciplined process</title>
		<link>http://www.curmudgeons-progress.com/pcusa/discipline-in-the-pcusa-an-undisciplined-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grumpy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When our session announced a year a go that we believed God was calling our church out of the PCUSA into the EPC, it galvanized a small opposition group into action. Initially, they sent a letter to our congregation that listed their objections to the EPC. Whether by design or honest mistake, the letter contained <a class="read-the-rest" href="http://www.curmudgeons-progress.com/pcusa/discipline-in-the-pcusa-an-undisciplined-process/">Read the rest </a>]]></description>
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		<title>PCUSA: Why not stay?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grumpy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my church struggles through an endless process of discernment, yoked to an Administrative Commission that seems dedicated to stalling and dividing us, I decided I needed a clear answer to the question &#8220;what harm is there in staying in the PCUSA?&#8221; This is what I will tell anyone who asks:
Jesus had a special warning <a class="read-the-rest" href="http://www.curmudgeons-progress.com/pcusa/pcusa-why-not-stay/">Read the rest </a>]]></description>
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		<title>PCUSA: Why I want out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grumpy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to me that God tolerates institutional divisions in the church (otherwise known as denominations) for two possible reasons:
1. Doctrinal unity. None of us understands God’s theology. We struggle to grasp the principles that underlie his redemptive plan and our place in it, but we come to different understandings. Rather than watch us waste <a class="read-the-rest" href="http://www.curmudgeons-progress.com/pcusa/pcusa-why-i-want-out/">Read the rest </a>]]></description>
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