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		<title>Blog Maintenance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Folks, I&#8217;ve taken some time off from blogging to work on other projects, one of which is redesigning my blog. Do feel free to browse through mine and other writers&#8217; articles and posting comments is completely acceptable. I may not approve of them right away, but your comment will appear within the first day you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christocentric.com/main/?p=3123</link>
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		<title>Pregnancy Pact: What works best &#8211; abstinence or contraception?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[*SPOILERS ALERT!* I stopped watching the Lifetime channel movies long ago.  But every now and then a new movie would catch my eye and draw my curiosity and the movie Pregnancy Pact did just that.  It was a fictional movie based loosely on the teen pregnancy drama of Gloucester, Massachusetts that happened in 2008, where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christocentric.com/main/?p=3085</link>
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		<title>Are Public Schools Becoming More Anti Christian?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have decided for several reasons to take back the responsibility from the government of educating my children.  One reason, public schools have been on track for several years now to offer what I would consider parenting to our children, instilling values that are contradictory to our family’s beliefs. Issues like sexual orientation, birth control, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christocentric.com/main/?p=3043</link>
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		<title>Critiquing the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa: Day 7 – Faith (Imani)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faith without God? Faith &#8211; Imani (ee-MAH-nee) To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. I&#8217;ve been taking each of the seven principles of Kwanzaa also called in Swahili, the Nguzo Saba, and exploring their true meaning as they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christocentric.com/main/?p=2997</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year! 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Psalm 19 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. 2 Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christocentric.com/main/?p=2985</link>
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		<title>Critiquing the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa: Day 6 – Creativity (Kuumba)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creativity and eternity according to Karenga Creativity &#8211; Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah) -To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. The creator of Kwanzaa, Karenga&#8217;s definition of Creativity may be a little different than the average Kwanzaa participant.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christocentric.com/main/?p=2975</link>
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		<title>Critiquing the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa: Day 5 – Purpose (Nia)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can you go wrong with the principle of Purpose?  There are some ways . . . Purpose &#8211; Nia (NEE-ah) -  &#8211; To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. The Good: Always a great purpose to build up any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christocentric.com/main/?p=2959</link>
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		<title>Critiquing the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa: Day 4 – Cooperative Economics (Ujamaa)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Socialism in action. Cooperative Economics &#8211; Ujamaa (oo-jah-MAH-ah) &#8211; To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. As what was shared in the third principle of Kwanzaa, Collective Work and Responsibility, now we have the economic principle of &#8220;shared wealth&#8221; a catch phrase pointing to socialism.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christocentric.com/main/?p=2951</link>
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		<title>Critiquing the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa: Day 3 – Collective Work and Responsibility (Ujima)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Socialism or community activism? Collective Work and Responsibility &#8211; Ujima (oo-JEE-mah) &#8211; - To build and maintain our community together and make our brother&#8217;s and sister&#8217;s problems our problems and to solve them together. Karenga here wasn&#8217;t speaking of brotherly love and charitable acts by helping one another. No, he was talking more about socialism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.christocentric.com/main/?p=2918</link>
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		<title>Critiquing the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa: Day 2 – Self-determination (Kujichagulia)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-determination - Kujichagulia (koo-jee-chah-GOO-lee-ah) - To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. As a Christian, this principle of Kwanzaa, self-determination, has to be one of the most offensive of all the principles.  If we remember from my post on the first principle Unity, Karenga created Kwanzaa as a means to [...]]]></description>
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