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		<title>Adonoi Hashem My Refuge ~ Psalm 73:25-28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whom have I in heaven but Thee?  And there is none upon the earth that I desire beside Thee.  My flesh and my heart may fail; but God is the rocky summit of my heart and my portion (secure place of life and refuge&#8211;home place).  For, behold, they that are far from Thee will perish; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2012/01/04/adonoi-hashem-my-refuge-psalm-7325-28/</link>
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		<title>Rosenzweig on Meinecke on History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So pithy, this student statement of Franz Rosenzweig about his history professor, Friedrich Meinecke, at Freiburg in 1908:  &#8221;He treats history as though it were a Platonic dialogue, not murder and manslaughter.&#8221; Rosenzweig, citizen of the militant Kaisersreich, the German Empire, knew about war as a contemporary fact.  The quotation shows his frame of mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2011/12/22/rosenzweig-on-meinecke-on-history/</link>
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		<title>If we do not pray with Israel . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) continues to challenge and engage me.  So, too, his mentor, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), the steel to Rosenzweig&#8217;s flint.  They escort me roughly out of the easy seats onto the stone seats of a contentious forum; there they bid me listen until I squirm, my butt on the hard limestone, my brain on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2011/12/07/if-we-do-not-pray-with-israel/</link>
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		<title>In Search of Liberty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Barton is forceful.  He saws heavily on the &#8220;Judeo-Christian principles of our Founding Fathers,&#8221; and in that he is right, but less so because he ignores the equally, perhaps more important founding principles based in Enlightenment rationality and the then truly liberal economic and political principles (having no king is radical as is equality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2011/09/20/in-search-of-liberty/</link>
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		<title>Close to, but not always on, Tornado Alley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a Dear One who lives in Washington D.C. and who would move back to Texas but for a few things, two of them being &#8220;Texas has tornadoes&#8221; and &#8220;D.C. has lots to offer.&#8221;  True, very true. Surely there are many delights for folk who live inside the Beltway.  But one of them, certainly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2011/09/13/close-to-but-not-always-on-tornado-alley/</link>
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		<title>God Hungers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional Chinese philosophy/religion assumes a continuity between the world and the above-world, between nature and the supernatural, between earth and heaven.  This appears in Confucianism and Daoism, especially in their blending.  That Chinese tradition is &#8220;secular&#8221; as we would say yet there is a difference:  the object is to achieve or accept harmony between heaven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2011/09/05/god-hungers/</link>
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		<title>Culture Not Optional</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A notice this morning of a new link on this page to an interesting site.  I&#8217;ll be exploring the links on that site, too.  The link is on the right sidebar; otherwise it&#8217;s here:  Culture Is Not Optional]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2011/08/23/culture-not-optional/</link>
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		<title>Enter into My Joy &#8211; John Stott</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The news today of John Stott&#8217;s death at 90 saddened me for a moment, but only that long, for I knew he had entered the full joy of the Lord having done all the Lord&#8217;s bidding.  The Christianity Today obituary is moving and evokes good memory.  His life example is a good instance of what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2011/07/27/enter-in-joy-john-stott/</link>
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		<title>Heartless Paganism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I follow up here on a previous posting with a challenging quotation that caught my eye &#8212; or should I say it caught me between the eyes?  Yes, it&#8217;s the Rosenzweig connection again, but it has to do with the struggle of the believer, certainly of Christian and Jew, and perhaps others.  The quotation is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2011/07/27/heartless-paganism/</link>
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		<title>Education, revelation and wisdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;must-quote&#8221; here in connection with current investigations.  Leo Strauss has been discussing the challenge of the literary expression of truth in &#8220;a society which is not liberal,&#8221; such as we find in many countries today and in the past.  He writes about &#8220;exoteric&#8221; writing&#8211;attractive and accessible to the reading public on the outside, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerrysummers.com/2011/06/21/education-revelation-and-wisdom/</link>
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