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	<description>&#34;I cling to my Lord Christ like a burr on cloth.&#34; - Katherine Luther</description>
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		<title>Speaking of the DEVIL, a Review of M. Night Shyamalan&#8217;s Latest Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If the devil is real, God, also, must be real.”  So says the narrator of Devil , the latest addition to the body of work of M. Night Shyamalan.  Shyamalan is the auteur behind Sixth Sense, The Village, and Signs, among others.  In this case, he neither wrote nor directed the film.  Instead, he came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Last Exorcism,&#8221; a Review</title>
		<link>http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2010/08/30/the-last-exorcism-a-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you believe in God, you have to believe in the Devil.&#8221;  Or so said the reverend Cotton Marcus in Eli Roth&#8217;s new movie, The Last Exorcism.  That&#8217;s even the tagline on some of the move posters.  Actually, I think he&#8217;s got it wrong.  It should be the other way around: &#8220;if you believe in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;If you believe in God, you have to believe in the Devil.&#8221;  Or so said the reverend Cotton Marcus in Eli Roth&#8217;s new movie, The Last Exorcism.  That&#8217;s even the tagline on some of the move posters.  Actually, I think he&#8217;s got it wrong.  It should be the other way around: &#8220;if you believe in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Great Balls of Awesome!</title>
		<link>http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2010/05/31/great-balls-of-awesome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 22:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Scott Stiegemeyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What really cool thing did you do this Memorial Day weekend?  We went last night to see The Million Dollar Quartet at the intimate Apollo Theater in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.  It was a roaring great time and you must go see it right now today. On a December day in 1956, four [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What really cool thing did you do this Memorial Day weekend?  We went last night to see The Million Dollar Quartet at the intimate Apollo Theater in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.  It was a roaring great time and you must go see it right now today.
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		<title>&#8220;Twilight,&#8221; the Book: A Review</title>
		<link>http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2009/12/12/twilight-the-book-a-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I finally read Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, the vampire mega-hit that is so popular today with early adolescent girls. I give it a B-. Until about the last twenty pages, the plot remained strong and engaging. I appreciate the unique remote Northwest setting, with its rain-drenched gloomy atmosphere. Vampires, it seems, do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So I finally read Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, the vampire mega-hit that is so popular today with early adolescent girls.  I give it a B-.
Until about the last twenty pages, the plot remained strong and engaging.  I appreciate the unique remote Northwest setting, with its rain-drenched gloomy atmosphere.  Vampires, it seems, do [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leap Like Calves</title>
		<link>http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2009/12/03/leap-like-calves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Scott Stiegemeyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the homily I preached this morning in Kramer Chapel at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN.  I think I overdid it a bit with the references, quotes and illustrations.  As the dean said afterward, &#8220;well that was a post-modern romp.&#8221;  Text: Malachi 4: 1-6 This is the way the world ends This is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Below is the homily I preached this morning in Kramer Chapel at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN.  I think I overdid it a bit with the references, quotes and illustrations.  As the dean said afterward, &#8220;well that was a post-modern romp.&#8221;   
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This is the way the world ends
This is the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Midnighters Coming to Television</title>
		<link>http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2009/10/30/midnighters-coming-to-television/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Scott Stiegemeyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t you ever wished you had one more hour in your day?  Many of us have fantasized about having more time, when in fact, we already have all the time there is. Not so in the Midnighters universe, an inventive trilogy of speculative YA fiction by Scott Westerfeld.  I just finished reading book one, The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t you ever wished you had one more hour in your day?  Many of us have fantasized about having more time, when in fact, we already have all the time there is.
Not so in the Midnighters universe, an inventive trilogy of speculative YA fiction by Scott Westerfeld.  I just finished reading book one, The Secret [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Paranormal Activity: Newest Nail-Biting Frightfest You Won&#8217;t Soon Forget</title>
		<link>http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2009/10/23/paranormal-activity-newest-nail-biting-frightfest-you-wont-soon-forget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Scott Stiegemeyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new film called Paranormal Activity that some people are calling one of the scariest movies ever made.  Produced in 2007 by unknowns with just $11,000 and shot in seven days, it&#8217;s being compared to The Blair Witch Project from ten years ago.  It too was made by amateur filmmakers for a pittance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wassup with this Latest Vampire Craze?</title>
		<link>http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2009/10/20/wassup-with-this-latest-vampire-craze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Scott Stiegemeyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’d have to try pretty hard not to notice that vampires have invaded our popular culture to an astounding degree in recent years.  What’s up with that?  Vampire legends have existed in many cultures for many centuries and there have been quite a few variations along the way.  Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, came out in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You’d have to try pretty hard not to notice that vampires have invaded our popular culture to an astounding degree in recent years.  What’s up with that?  Vampire legends have existed in many cultures for many centuries and there have been quite a few variations along the way.  Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, came out in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Movie Review: District 9</title>
		<link>http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2009/08/27/movie-review-district-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pastor Scott Stiegemeyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[District 9 is proof that you don&#8217;t need a ginormous budget or famous faces to put together a terrific movie.  The special effects were stunning.  The unknown main actor deserves to win awards.  And the documentary style utilized by The Blair Witch Project (one of the scariest movies I have ever seen), Cloverfield, and Quarantine [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[District 9 is proof that you don&#8217;t need a ginormous budget or famous faces to put together a terrific movie.  The special effects were stunning.  The unknown main actor deserves to win awards.  And the documentary style utilized by The Blair Witch Project (one of the scariest movies I have ever seen), Cloverfield, and Quarantine [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;The Solace of Leaving Early&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2009/08/01/book-review-the-solace-of-leaving-early/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was vacationing along Lake Michigan at the historic Lakeside Inn with my family when my wife and I both finished the novels we were reading at the same time.  Mine was a pulpy thriller by Robert Bloch (The Scarf) that Julie naturally had no interest in.  But as she told me about the story [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was vacationing along Lake Michigan at the historic Lakeside Inn with my family when my wife and I both finished the novels we were reading at the same time.  Mine was a pulpy thriller by Robert Bloch (The Scarf) that Julie naturally had no interest in.  But as she told me about the story [...]]]></content:encoded>
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