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		<title>Seeking Common Ground</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/09/02/seeking-common-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know well what it means for people to be dissatisfied with Christianity, or to blurt out &#8220;I&#8217;m finished!&#8221; and publicly walk away. I&#8217;ve even heard people proclaim that the term &#8220;Christian&#8221; has been so torn apart in the battle-to-the-death between liberals and conservatives that there&#8217;s no longer any point in using the term at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Defines the &#8220;Big Tent&#8221; of Christianity?</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/08/29/who-defines-the-big-tent-of-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In responding to &#8220;Why Big Tent Christianity?&#8221; a few days ago, Ian Carmichael worried about my use of the phrase, &#8220;To those on the other side&#8230;&#8221; Ian writes, I’d have thought that transformation is a key concept in any and every strand of Christianity. Classical evangelicalism, for exam[le would be serious about sanctification – even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Big Tent Christianity?</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/08/25/why-big-tent-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian McLaren and I are organizing a major public conference on September 8-9 in Raleigh, North Carolina in order to make the call for a return to &#8220;Big Tent Christianity.&#8221; Why is this call important? &#8220;One Lord, One Church, One Baptism . . .&#8221; The Christian church appeals back to a single teacher, Jesus of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Challenge to Pat Robertson, Bishop Spong &#8230; &amp; Stephen Colbert</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/08/17/a-challenge-to-pat-robertson-bishop-spong-stephen-colbert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for a new two-minute video &#8212; an invitation to Pat Robertson and John Shelby Spong to join us at the Big Tent Christianity celebration this September (check it out at BigTentChristianity.com), to share a hug on stage, and to publically acknowledge each other as brothers in faith.  Or is there, according to these gentlemen, no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Big Tent Christianity: Is Big Tent Wimpy or Radical?</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/08/12/at-big-tent-christianity-is-big-tent-wimpy-or-radical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, since Brian McLaren and Tripp Fuller and I launched the Big Tent Christianity project, we think it’s a cool idea. If you haven’t already, check out BigTentChristianity.com, snoop around the links and postings … and sign up to be at the first Big Tent Celebration this September. Still, I’ve always been worried about Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At The Washington Post: How I Rediscovered Christianity Through Islam</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/07/31/how-i-rediscovered-christianity-through-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a way of being Christian that doesn&#8217;t define our faith in opposition to other religions. Imagine that the encounter between the world&#8217;s religious traditions not as a zero-sum game &#8212; I win, you lose &#8212; but as a different economy altogether. I just wrote on these themes in a special guest blog for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Patheos: Church for People who Aren&#8217;t so Sure about Religion</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/07/27/at-patheos-church-for-people-who-arent-so-sure-about-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out my newest post on Patheos on the topic, &#8220;New Visions: Or, Church for People Who Aren&#8217;t So Sure about Religion&#8221; by clicking on this link: http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/New-Visions-Or-Church-for-People-Who-Arent-So-Sure-about-Religion.html While you&#8217;re there, check out the other contributions by Christian leaders in the forum on &#8220;The Future of Mainline Protestantism&#8221;: http://www.patheos.com/Topics/Future-of-World-Religions/Mainline-Protestantism.html]]></description>
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		<title>At Patheos: Responding to Religious Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/07/25/at-patheos-responding-to-religious-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://philipclayton.net/2010/07/25/at-patheos-responding-to-religious-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read my latest post at Patheos.com, a place of balanced dialogue on faith and religion. See it here: http://www.patheos.com/community/mainlineportal/2010/07/22/responding-to-religious-terrorism/.]]></description>
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		<title>Is it possible to use &#8220;Jesus&#8221; and &#8220;love&#8221; in the same sentence?</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/07/06/jesus-and-love-in-the-same-sentence/</link>
		<comments>http://philipclayton.net/2010/07/06/jesus-and-love-in-the-same-sentence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Silva spoofs Marcus Borg in his recent post at "Apprising Ministries." If Ken's "Jesus of the Left" really were Marcus Borg's position, I could not fully endorse it. I don't think it is, but judge for yourself.]]></description>
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		<title>Church for People Who Aren’t So Sure About Religion</title>
		<link>http://philipclayton.net/2010/07/03/church-for-people-who-aren%e2%80%99t-so-sure-about-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain is said to have quipped in 1897, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Today rumors are rampant of the impending death of the church. But, although unimaginable transformations await us in the coming two decades, this is not one of them. Karl Marx thought that religion, like the state, would [...]]]></description>
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