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		<title>Where, with whom, and why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atlanta. More specifically, Panera Bread across the street from Emory University. No one but myself, so a very particular one. Work.
Up to now, I&#8217;ve despised the ATL and dreaded every visit. But this time down has been nice. I found a really cool area called Little Five Points with some well-stocked record stores, chic, retro [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=145&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m alive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s much harder to post these days. Maybe it&#8217;s the birth of Noah, working full-time, going back to school, being married to a PhD student, running, trying to be a musician, or too much TV. It&#8217;s probably that last one.
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		<title>Daddyhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is what being a new dad will do to you. I haven&#8217;t posted since July 2008 and I&#8217;ve let derekelkins.com lapse for months (even though I&#8217;m still paying for it). I promise I&#8217;ll try to be better.
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		<title>My Baby Daddy</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/my-baby-daddy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Littlest Elkins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ask me how I went without noticing that I never announced our pregnancy on my blog. I spent most of the spring trying to keep the baby a secret for various reasons, so when the time came to announce it to the world, I was tentative. Nevertheless, I&#8217;m here now and WE&#8217;RE HAVING A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=124&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics of the Plate</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/politics-of-the-plate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! It&#8217;s been a long time since I posted anything on my blog, and I&#8217;ve got a lot to catch you up on. However, I first want to post my most recent sermon. Actually, I&#8217;m going to post my (2) most recent sermons. First, &#8220;Politics of the Plate,&#8221; which I preached at Christ Church in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=122&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community Building Offline</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/community-building-offline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Oates from Flickr has an outstanding article about online community building over at A List Apart. What resonates with me most is the  relevance of Oates&#8217; thoughts for those of us building communities in the offline world. In particular, I wonder what the church might look like if we considered the fact that 95% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=121&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proud North Carolinian</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/proud-north-carolinian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely have I been so proud of my North Carolinian heritage than when I read the following excerpt from The Religious History of America:
Everything about the evangelical Baptists and Presbyterians of North Carolina offended one especially acerbic Anglican cleric, Charles Woodmason, who found himself in something of a guerrilla war with backcountry disenters. They mocked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=120&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do something creative&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/do-something-creative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<title>Major Accomplishments</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/major-accomplishments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, I get to feeling like I haven&#8217;t done anything significant with my life. I have to remind myself of all that I&#8217;ve accomplished in order to shake off that not-so-fresh feeling. In general, I am quite productive and set ridiculously high standards for almost everything I do, and nearly always exceed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=117&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theotokion</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/theotokion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<title>Protected: test</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<title>Sensitive Hunter-Specialist</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/sensitive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my professors told me recently that I should be keeping a journal of this time in my life. For reasons that I won&#8217;t explain here, I&#8217;m going to start doing that.
One thing I will comment on publicly is the fact that I have been really sensitive lately. I&#8217;m a hyper-sensitive person naturally (to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=113&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John 9:1-41 &#8211; &#8220;Wonderful Catastrophe&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/john-9-wonderful-catastrophe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Wonderful Catastrophe” &#8211; John 9
A Throbbing Story
Did you ever think that 1440 might be among the worst years in history? I’m not saying that the advent of the printing press definitely was the worst event in history (certainly not with the many atrocities we can all list off the tops of our heads in which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=112&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bride-Groom&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/bride-groom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Narrow hallway, creamy dress
dripping off her body through my arms
to the floor.
Threshold of eternal mystery, open
that we may enter.
This place is new.
Plunge deeper into bliss.
Tiny, abundant buttons delay.
Fingertips, numb in the chill of anticipation.
She is unveiled
before me, by me.
I am already hers.
Fire inside
like lit candles
making shadowy figures dance a first dance
on walls by our marriage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=111&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent Beer</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/110/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have found one more reason to admire Abbess Karen Ward of Church of the Apostles in Seattle. Gaudete Advent Ale is the newest brew blessed by Abbess Ward and the Freemont Abbey. Read more about the micro-brew here.
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		<title>Drew Theological School, Fall 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally posted my work from my first semester at Drew on the &#8220;reflection&#8221; page. Generally, seminary students have to write a number of reflection papers in which we wax nostalgic about our &#8220;spiritual journeys.&#8221; That probably doesn&#8217;t interest you very much, and most of that content makes it&#8217;s way to the front page of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=109&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John of Damascus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so mired in homework these days that my posts are largely reduced to quotes from significant people in Christian History. That may actually be more valuable to you in the long run.
For those of you fascinated by emerging liturgical forms, consider this polemical nugget from iconophile, John of Damascus:
&#8220;Perhaps you are sublime and and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=95&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YWAM Denver</title>
		<link>http://derekelkins.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/ywam-denver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine sent me a link to the NY Times article about the shooting at the YWAM base in Arvada, CO right about the time that Kat was calling me at church to tell me about it. There&#8217;s not a lot information yet, so I&#8217;m not even sure if the people I know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=94&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words that do not teach&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m loving Augustine these days. Granted, he did irreparable harm to Christian ideals regarding sexuality, but he said a lot of good stuff too. I draw your attention to this little nugget:
&#8220;Whoever teaches, therefore, should avoid all words that do not teach&#8230; It is a noteworthy quality to love the truth in words, not the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=93&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two ways&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that there are at least two ways to pastor: 1) To interpret the world on behalf of the people; 2) To give the people tools with which to interpret the world.
Perhaps, a third, best option is to reveal to people the tools that have been part of ones own journey, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=derekelkins.wordpress.com&blog=1341714&post=92&subd=derekelkins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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