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		<title>Fowl language: Deadly Viper and how we got the word &#8220;turkey&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Lewis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New posts have been noticeably absent here on semaphoric, and it has been some six months since I last updated the blog. What better time for a new entry than this Thanksgiving season. At the risk of disappointing my readers, I will not gush about the things I&#8217;m thankful for (even though there is an [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/fowl-language-deadly-viper-and-how-we-got-the-word-turkey' addthis:title='Fowl language: Deadly Viper and how we got the word &#8220;turkey&#8221; ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Earth Day. There are many things we can do to be good caretakers of this planet and to be ever more aware of the impact human activity has on the environment. It wasn&#8217;t until recently that I became aware of how much electricity I waste in a typical day. With all our appliances, [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/earth-day-2009' addthis:title='Earth Day 2009 ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/rumors-of-my-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Bebbington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evangelicalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Berger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodney Stark]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Bainbridge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an alarming story floating around the blogsphere for the past week about the death of evangelicalism. This story first originated on Michael Spencer&#8217;s blog and then was picked up by The Christian Science Monitor. Spencer&#8217;s predictions are dire and portentous. Simply put, evangelicalism, as we know it here in the West, is &#8220;on the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/rumors-of-my-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated' addthis:title='Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Semaphoric</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/miscellany/introducing-semaphoric</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[postcolonial discourse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Hu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it begins: this blog was set to launch at the start of 2009 when procrastination took over the better of me. Although this first post dates back to January, it took some three months to get this project off the ground. I&#8217;m still putting this blog through its paces — there are a number of [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.semaphoric.org/miscellany/introducing-semaphoric' addthis:title='Introducing Semaphoric ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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