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	<title>Introspections &#38; Ideas of a Black WASP</title>
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		<title>God in a Box?</title>
		<link>http://blackwasp19.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/god-in-a-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Recently I have been wondering about the personhood and magnitude of God and a question came to my mind. In our attempts to &#8220;not put God in a box&#8221; we are actually still trying to put our own attributes or desire of God on God? Is it that we really believe in a transcendent God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=897&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hope of a Hebraic-Jewish Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to have images of a White Jesus, Asian Jesus etc.?
Most of the time we don’t really think about how we depict Jesus, but perhaps it is important that we think of it with more intent.
Historically a depiction of a white, western European looking Jesus has been the most prominent. Arthur Maxwell&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=887&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soda and the Health of a Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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- watch the video before you read the comments -
The video is referring to the obesity tax suggested by NY Governor David Paterson .NPR also recently posted a segment about a Soda Tax.
The BIG issue that I can see is that sometimes we get dependent on taxes – like we have with tobacco. Why can’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=420&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interracial Injustice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is this 1967?
A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
. . . Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=884&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Thoughts on Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Christians, as we pursue understanding the issues concerning health care, we must consider our call towards justice and engaging with the alien, poor, and widow. I ask we consider the call of biblical justice and call to serve the poor. My friend recently passed on a verse that seems to be pertinent;
The righteous is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=837&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama? Pissed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A facebook conversation sparked by someone being “pissed” at Obama winning the Nobel Prize  &#8211; I am Blackwasp19. If anyone wants to join in the conversation go ahead.
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Blackwasp19 &#8220;pissed&#8221; ? why should it make you that mad? I disagree with the decision, but I don&#8217;t understand why it would &#8220;piss&#8221; anyone off.
2 Because other people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=878&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Recently,  my family, those around me and I have been surrounded by the presence of death. Either through family members, friends or other conversations. It is difficult because the typical contemporary Christian understanding of death is to try to turn a Christian&#8217;s death into a joyful occasion &#8211; perhaps this is because of the theology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=874&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Former battle rap champ Jin is making his way back into the spotlight as a Christian rapper signed to Universal Hong Kong.
Now a born again Christian residing in Hong Kong, Jin has changed the content of his music, but still manages to showcase his lyrical prowess.
Recently Jin released a new track titled “Welcome to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=850&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bible Banner or Banned Bible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The students at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High had to give up a tradition that began after 9-11. The school&#8217;s football team had the tradition of starting the game by running through a banner with a verse of Christian scripture painted on it. The banner tradition is fairly common for high school football &#8211; we used to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=862&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>and the Winner is . . . RIO!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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COPENHAGEN – The 2016 Olympics are going to Rio de Janeiro, putting the games in South America for the first time.
Rio beat surprise finalist Madrid in the last round of voting.
Chicago was knocked out in the first round — in one of the most shocking defeats ever handed down by the International Olympic Committee — [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackwasp19.wordpress.com&blog=2209986&post=860&subd=blackwasp19&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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