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		<title>The (Much Delayed) Spring CI Minutes</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=228</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hart Brumm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My apologies for the late posting of these.  Until the other day, I had been living in a fog that told me I&#8217;d done this . . . James
MINUTES: The fourteenth meeting of signatories of the Chicago Invitation and guests
19-20 May 2010 at Mariandale Retreat Center, Ossining, New York
Present: Jack Elliott, Dick Otterness, Joanne Fernandez-McDermott, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silence of the Synod</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=223</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hart Brumm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Synod has just ended: my twelfth, and there was less speaking from the floor during the whole Synod than during just the Monday evening session last year.  Of course, the people who did speak were lovingly ridiculed and required to joyfully accept that.
Synod has been reduced to four microphones on the floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerusalem to Antioch</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=217</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Janssen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I confess I&#8217;m not quite sure how this &#8220;Jerusalem to Antioch&#8221; thing is supposed to &#8216;work.&#8217;  I get the intent of this construction of history:  that there were &#8216;establishment&#8217; people in Jerusalem, and that Antioch was &#8216;missional,&#8217; and that they had to figure out a way to talk with one another with mutual respect for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discernment Plus</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=211</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hart Brumm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I have been at GS as a regular delegate, and I know that the discernment process in the all-synod advisory groups is not new. But I noticed, last night, in particular, how manipulative this particular version is.

Last night, we were all discussing the Covenant of Care. Let me begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Synod blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=207</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacey Midge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will try to get a separate post up here soon, but wanted to let you know that I am blogging on the General Synod site as well.
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		<title>Disciplinary Assessments</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=198</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=198#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Hart Brumm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the very first items of business before the 2010 General Synod will be to lift from the table R-52 from the 2009 Synod. This motion called for assessments to be increased for classes that are not in compliance with the “Covenant of Care” provisions of BCO Formulary #5.

Now, I agree with the principles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Ten-Year Goal?</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=194</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 14:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Janssen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At our recent CI gathering we discussed the RCA&#8217;s process for &#8220;discerning&#8221; a new ten-year goal. I asked the rather rude question: why goal? There were instructive and helpful responses. Among other things, it shapes where the General Synod places its resources. I am less sanguine in thinking that it can be the &#8220;goal&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This New Command&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=187</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 02:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Griswold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Janssen has written a beautiful new hymn, &#8220;This New Command I Give to You.&#8221; I love how it has Jesus&#8217; directive answered by our prayer of praise and supplication.
You may download it (as an Acrobat file) by clicking here.
Thank you, Paul!
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		<title>Axiopistos &amp; autopistos</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=177</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=177#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 16:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Okke Postma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we get beyond phrases such as ‘fundamentalist’ and ‘liberal’ in our discussions of biblically based positions? In the Reformed tradition we pride ourselves to be Reformed ‘according to the Scriptures.’ But what does that mean. What prompted our second and third generation Reformed thinkers to adopt such a phrase?
The origin of the phrase is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dump the BCO</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=174</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagoinvitation.org/?p=174#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 19:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Griswold</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, I have no desire to dump the BCO, that slim orange book of church government and discipline for the Reformed Church. Rather, I find myself surrounded by many who apparently would like to get rid of it, who  have no use or respect for it. Frankly, I believe that many of them have no [...]]]></description>
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