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		<title>Yes, You Do Have Time to Learn Apologetics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I was in graduate school studying for my M.A. in Science and Religion, I was often the recipient of wide-eyed stares and exclamations of, &#8220;How on earth do you have enough hours in the day?!&#8221; After all, I was running a household, homeschooling two elementary-age boys, teaching intermittently at church, and nurturing my marriage [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1962&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity and Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent short lecture from Frank Turek entitled &#8220;Why Christians Should Be Involved in Politics.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1959&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Article&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you have not subscribed to my newer ministry website, I wanted to alert you to my latest article. The Secret Garden: The Book of Nature and Religious Pluralism <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1955&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behold, the Man!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the artwork that hangs in the front entry hall of my home. Ecce Homo&#8211;&#8221;Behold, the Man!&#8221; It was painted by Antonio Ciseri in 1871. It is&#8230;magnificent. I cannot walk by it without feeling a pang in my heart. This is my Savior. He was innocent. Yet He was mocked, beaten, and executed in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1937&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold-Case Christianity is FREE for a Limited Time Today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: The &#8220;free&#8221; promotion has now ended. BUT, you can still get it for $2.99, which is a steal! J. Warner Wallace has an excellent new book out, and Amazon is giving it away in e-book format for FREE today!! Don&#8217;t miss this one!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1930&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;But I Know Something You Don&#8217;t Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an apologist, I often dialogue with non-believers on the evidence for the philosophical, historical, and scientific veracity of the Christian faith. While I have the utmost confidence in the various lines of evidence that beautifully converge to support the case, the most important and persuasive evidence is, by its very nature, inaccessible to the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1920&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Subscription Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, My wonderful web designer has added a subscription feature to my new site. You can now sign up to receive email alerts whenever I post to www.sciencereasonfaith.com  Blessings, Melissa<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1915&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Fantastical Lengths to Avoid the God Hypothesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers: I invite you to come check out my latest article on Science Reason &#38; Faith. Going to Fantastical Lengths to Avoid the God Hypothesis At some point, I will figure out how to add a &#8220;subscribe&#8221; feature to my  new site (for some reason, there is no widget for it). In the meantime, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1912&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Announcements!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, I have launched a new ministry website entitled Science, Reason &#38; Faith. My general apologetics and worldview articles will continue to appear here at Hard-Core Christianity, but from here on out, my science/philosophy of science/science-faith integration articles will appear at http://www.sciencereasonfaith.com. I wanted a main site that focuses on my particular area of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1903&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>European Witch Hunts and the Christian Church Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is part 2 of 3. Part 1 can be read here.  The Realities of the Witch Hunts The period of European witch hunts is generally defined as the four centuries between 1400 and 1800. Perhaps in part because of the intriguing, sensational nature of the subject, witch hunts have been blown well out [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hcchristian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14650982&#038;post=1880&#038;subd=hcchristian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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