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		<title>Why should anyone read a book on old-style church union?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[church union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consultation on Church Union]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent four years writing a book on the last and most important church union movement of the 20th century, but knowledgeable people report that readers won’t be much interested. A friend, who is an expert in the unity movement, recommended the manuscript to his publisher but was told that their readers aren’t buying books on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=4031&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portland, a place where bicycles go high art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bicycles at the Portland Art Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bike lectures in Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyclopedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Embacher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Portland, Oregon, is one American city where popular culture and bicycling are intertwined. In the summer of 2013, however, the cultural style of the city’s fixation on bicycles is going high art. Leading the transformation is the Portland Art Museum, which (as in other cities around the world) is the place where high art is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=4025&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What does the church pray when storms are raging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[does God cause storms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion and weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tornadoes and God]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a Sunday when the Oklahoma tornadoes had been dominating the daily news, I was asked to offer the morning prayer at my church. Traditionally, this prayer includes the church’s intercessions for the well being of the world and requests for God’s abiding presence in all that takes place in life. Since my church stands [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=4023&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bicycling by the Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 23:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Complete Book of Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eugene Sloane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Portuesi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Forester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Cuthbertson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rereading The Complete Book of Bicycling by Eugene A. Sloane (New York: Trident 1970) On Memorial Day 1971, my son Mike and I drove four miles from our home on the north side of Indianapolis to the Glendale Shopping Center to buy a book on bicycle repair. Mike’s two older sisters were complaining that the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=4010&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-modernist rituals and celebrations of life&#8217;s passing</title>
		<link>http://keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/post-modernist-rituals-and-celebrations-of-lifes-passing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 21:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denise Carson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parting Ways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quality of life rather than quantity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rituals and celebrations at life's passing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Parting Ways: New Rituals and Celebrations of Life’s Passing, by Denise Carson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011) Denise Carson watched both of her parents die of cancer, her father when he was 37 and her mother 17 years later when she was 54 and Denise was 26. Her dad had done everything that his doctors [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=4000&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City cycling for the &#8220;modern gal&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/city-cycling-for-the-modern-gal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adults on bikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katie Daily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and Bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women cyclists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For over a decade, Katie Dailey has bicycled around London, “one of the most congested and overpopulated cities in the world.” Despite countless hours dealing with the hazards of cycling in an urban area, she still doesn’t know “why anyone uses any other mode of transport to get anywhere.” What surprises her is that in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=3993&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When even doctors think drug prices are unethically high</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investigational drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[just price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sharp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[price of cancer drugs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Lance Armstrong blood doping scandal alerted me to a book that portrays serious problems in the functioning of America’s health care system: Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever, by Kathleen Sharp. The gist of her story is that the drive for maximizing profits led two pharmaceutical companies [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=3983&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving the Hebrew bible another read</title>
		<link>http://keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/giving-the-hebrew-bible-another-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["History of Israel"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christians and the Old Testament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God and violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reason and revelation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Bible as book of reason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yorum Hazony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yorum Hazony, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012) About twenty years ago, when I was in my early 60s and dealing with mild depression, I decided that it finally was time to read straight through the Bible, beginning with Genesis 1:1 and finishing at some later date with Revelation 22:21. I got [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=3971&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much should it cost to live a little longer?</title>
		<link>http://keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/how-much-should-it-cost-to-live-a-little-longer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Druker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflated medical costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sharp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life-extending drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Brill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“We’re excited about this new drug,” my wife’s oncologist told us a few months ago. “Studies indicate that it actually extends patients’ lives.” That’s what we wanted to hear, especially since she had already been under treatment for six years. In the new regimen, there would be two treatments every three weeks. She started in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=3965&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>40 years with bike nashbar</title>
		<link>http://keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/40-years-with-bike-nashbar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arni Nashbar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bike catalogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bike nashbar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyclo-Pedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Portuesi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  40 years ago, I was in the early stages of becoming a strong adult cyclist. My son Mike and I had entry-level ten-speed Raleighs and were reading about bikes, doing vigorous training rides, and beginning to think about tours like Ohio’s Tour of the Scioto River Valley. We had already subscribed to Gene Portuesi’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keithwatkinshistorian.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12805893&#038;post=3957&#038;subd=keithwatkinshistorian&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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