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		<title>Bicycling along with the Mormon Battalion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I bicycle through southern Arizona this winter, my thoughts will sometimes focus upon the Mormon Battalion, an untrained and inexperienced band of American volunteer soldiers who marched from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California, more than 160 years ago. They enlisted to serve in the war with Mexico that the U.S. Congress had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2476&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Religious vitality in a liberal church</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clash of Christian Cultures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evangelical vs. Liberal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James K. Wellman Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal churches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion in Pacific Northwest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to “Evangelical vs. Liberal” by James K. Wellman, Jr. I  have long been interested in message, ministry, and mission as factors that contribute to the religious and organizational vitality of congregations. The importance of these factors and how they interact in Christian communities takes on a distinctive character when they are used to understand classic Protestant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2451&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roads, a type of civilized society</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thanksgiving Day, 1846, Horace Bushnell, one of the nation’s most celebrated preachers, ascended the pulpit of the North Church in Hartford, Connecticut, and delivered an address, which he entitled “The Day of Roads.” It was later published as one of many essays in a very long book, Work and Play: Literary Varieties (London: Alexander [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2441&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fawn McKay Brodie and Joseph Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1945, after seven years of work, Fawn McKay Brodie published No Man Knows My History, a highly controversial biography of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church. Although she was only thirty years of age, the 400-page volume showed remarkable depth of research, significant powers of analysis, and a flowing literary style that adds to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2420&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All the Roads Are Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All the Roads Are Open]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annemarie Schwarzenbach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ella Maillart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isabel Fargo Cole]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travel writing raised to the level of literature  “In June 1939, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan’s Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2408&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is a religious historian?</title>
		<link>http://keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/what-is-a-religious-historian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unanticipated benefit of my decision to begin reading books on Mormon history, faith, and culture is that it is provoking me to think about what it means to be a religious historian? My doctoral studies combined two academic disciplines, which at that time were entitled historical theology and church history. One dealt primarily with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2394&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring training for an older cyclist</title>
		<link>http://keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/spring-training-for-an-older-cyclist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cactus Classic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the “religious historian” side of my life, January 6 is the first day of the Epiphany season in the church’s liturgical calendar, but for the “aggressive cyclist” side, this week marks the beginning of the annual get-back-in-shape season. The combination of damp, cold days and holidays (beginning with Halloween, two weeks after my last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2384&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning about the Latter Day Saints</title>
		<link>http://keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/learning-about-the-latter-day-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Shipps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latter Day Saints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mormon scholars]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sojourner in the Promised Land]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my goals for 2012 is to develop a basic knowledge of Mormon history, faith, and culture. One reason is to be able to participate more intelligently in current political discourse since prominent figures in public life are Mormon, including Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, and Harry Reid. A second reason is to provide a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2370&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End of the semester break</title>
		<link>http://keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/end-of-the-semester-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since beginning my online journal on American religion and aggressive cycling, I have posted 159 columns. With an approximate average of 750 words per post, they multiply out to some 120,000 words on these two topics. According to one analysis of writers’ habits, this body of written material has required at least 40 full days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2360&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bicycling in the city: a grown-up manual for adult cyclists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I’ve been thinking about getting a bicycle,” friends sometimes tell me. “I haven’t been on a bike since I was a kid, but I have to do something to get more exercise and lose a little weight.” Two responses quickly come to mind. On the one hand, I want to encourage them in their interest. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12805893&amp;post=2352&amp;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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