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	<description>To love, know, and serve God</description>
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		<title>Elijah/Elisha, John/Jesus, Law/Gospel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John 1:15  John bore witness about him, and cried out, &#8220;This was he of whom I said, &#8216;He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.&#8217;&#8221;
If John the Baptist was like Elijah, and Jesus is the one who comes after him but who surpasses him, then that makes Jesus like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.urbanaseminary.org/2009/11/24/elijahelisha-johnjesus-lawgospel/</link>
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		<title>From the Chaplain&#8217;s Desk: Some Thoughts on Prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t like people telling me how to pray.  So I don’t want to tell anyone else how to pray.  But I’ll describe some practices that have been helpful to me lately and perhaps they will be helpful to someone else.  
When I pray, I almost always make use of the psalms. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.urbanaseminary.org/2009/09/14/from-the-chaplains-desk-some-thoughts-on-prayer/</link>
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		<title>The ‘Octu-mom’ Controversy: Why Nadya Suleman is Not (Entirely) to Blame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(by Todd Daly)
Medical darling one day, death threats the next. What began as Kaiser Permanent’s triumphant story of Nadya Suleman’s eight ‘healthy’ newborns has quickly disintegrated into a dystopian nightmare when it was discovered that Nadya was already a single mother of six living on food stamps, seeking a book deal, and that her striking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.urbanaseminary.org/2009/03/17/the-%e2%80%98octu-mom%e2%80%99-controversy-why-nadya-suleman-is-not-entirely-to-blame/</link>
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		<title>From the Librarian&#8217;s Desk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One could point to St. Anselm’s prayer to “know Thee, to love Thee, that I may rejoice in Thee,” as foundational to theological enquiry. We ask questions so that we may understand God. And yet, with St. John of Damascus, we simultaneously acknowledge that “[God] exists, but what He is in essence and nature is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.urbanaseminary.org/2009/03/10/from-the-librarians-desk/</link>
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		<title>How Cool is This?  I&#8217;m there!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Urbana Seminary students are leading morning services throughout the Lent season.  Every weekday morning at 7 am from Thursday, February 26th through Thursday, April 9th we will conduct a brief (i.e., 20 mins) worship service in the sanctuary of University Baptist Church.  This worship service will follow the form of the traditional Matins service of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.urbanaseminary.org/2009/02/26/how-cool-is-this-im-there/</link>
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		<title>Come and Worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Humility and the Good Samaritan will be the theme of the next Urbana Seminary Worship Service.
Friday, February 20th, 2009 6 P.M.
Urbana Seminary (2nd Floor)
              314 E. Daniel Champaign
Hope to see you there!
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		<link>http://blog.urbanaseminary.org/2009/02/17/come-and-worship/</link>
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		<title>The Mission of Urbana Theological Seminary</title>
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“The mission of Urbana Theological Seminary is to provide graduate theological education which prepares people for Christian ministry and leadership, equipping them to love, know, and serve God.”
When we chose this mission statement for Urbana Seminary, I was at first a little concerned we’d gotten part of it backward.  We say we want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.urbanaseminary.org/2008/11/10/the-mission-of-urbana-theological-seminary/</link>
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		<title>Humility and the Academy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Why so little humility in the academy? In a chapter entitled “Pathology of the Young Theologian’s Conceit,” Helmut Thielicke wrote that

Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned it, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the other person who does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.urbanaseminary.org/2008/10/23/humility-and-the-academy/</link>
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		<title>We Have a Chaplain?</title>
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As of just a few weeks ago, we do. My name is Mike Shea and I have been teaching Hebrew here at Urbana Seminary since 2001. I also pastor the Community Evangelical Free Church in Champaign. What is a chaplain? I had to look it up myself. A chaplain is “a member of the clergy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.urbanaseminary.org/2008/10/14/we-have-a-chaplain/</link>
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