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		<title>Does the Old Testament Teach Absolute Monotheism? Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction: Was Ancient Israel Monotheistic?
Western Society is perhaps more indebted to the Hebrew Bible than to any other book, and arguably the most famous teaching associated with the Hebrew Bible is that of absolute monotheism.  This position famously affirms that there is only one god in existence and no other(s).  For example, Deuteronomy 6:4, known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/03/does-the-old-testament-teach-absolute-monotheism-part-i/</link>
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		<title>A Mormon Perspective on Social Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I write about social justice, mostly the theory of justice presented by the late philosopher John Rawls. I am not looking to add anything new today. But considering the recent comments by Brother Beck, I want to point out some of the things which I, a Mormon, has had to say about social justice.
I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/03/a-mormon-perspective-on-social-justice/</link>
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		<title>Sandel on Morality and the Free Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;We have drifted from having a market economy to have a market society.&#8221; Wow. A thoughful and insightful critique by the political philosopher Michael Sandel.
Check out the clip.
Also, I have written a few thoughts, inspired by Sandel and some conversations I have had lately, over at Radical Moderation.
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		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/03/sandel-on-morality-and-the-free-market/</link>
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		<title>What is Global Justice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WhatisGlobalJusticemp3
This podcast was made by two of my students, Jericho Cline and Ethan Blevin, during a senior seminar on global justice.
I am sharing this today because I have been thinking a lot about Ethan. He recently got into a great law school. He also just suffered a great loss in his family. He and Jericho [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/03/what-is-global-justice/</link>
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		<title>Oaks, Harvard, and &#8220;Religion&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, Elder Oaks spoke at Harvard.  Just a little more than a week after a Newsweek article accused Harvard of ignoring the importance of the academic study of religion, Elder Oaks visited Harvard Law School as part of a series of bringing high-profile LDS legal figures to speak on Mormonism 101.  Such an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/02/oaks-harvard-and-religion/</link>
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		<title>Important conversation about academia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;ve been AWOL on my OT:FTW posts, but the recent tragic shootings over being denied tenure have sparked a variety of interesting reflections on tenure, academia, publishing, stress, and so on. I thought it merited more than a sidebar.
http://chronicle.com/article/Reactions-Is-Tenure-a-Matter/64321/
Thoughts?
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		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/02/important-conversation-about-academia/</link>
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		<title>Imposed Openness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How is God infinite and embodied? Are we born in the spirit world or have our spirits existed forever? What is the nature of &#8220;intelligence&#8221;? What is eternal progression?
These are issues that LDSs have different views on. Leaders throughout the history of the Church have also expressed a variety of views in responding to these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/02/imposed-openness/</link>
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		<title>Prayest in thy closet&#8230;not thy classroom.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3 Nephi 13:
  5 And when thou prayest thou shalt not do as the hypocrites, for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
  6 But thou, when thou prayest, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/02/prayest-in-thy-closet-not-the-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Discussion and Implications of the New Perspective(s) on Paul (NPP)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is God&#8217;s power for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, as well as the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith(fullness) for faith(fullness), as it has been written, &#8216;(and) the Righteous One/righteous will live through faith(fullness).&#8217;  -Romans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/02/discussion-and-implications-of-the-new-perspectives-on-paul-npp/</link>
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		<title>BYU-Idaho College Democrats-in-Exile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a box of posters, signs, t-shirts, and other junk in my office in Provo that stands as a physical reminder of what was once the College Democrats at BYU-Idaho.  I was the last faculty advisor for the club and when I moved to Provo, I could not find anyone to take them.
For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.faithpromotingrumor.com/2010/02/byu-idaho-college-democrats-in-exile/</link>
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