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		<title>Find Balance in Leisure Time &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan K. Galloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have several friends who spend their leisure time in a variety of ways. Some ride motorcycles with others who also have motorcycles. Another one cruises around in his restored 1967 Pontiac Firebird. While others attend professional sporting games during their leisure time. How we spend our leisure time often indicates our deep seated value &#8230; <a href="http://journeysinculture.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/find-balance-in-leisure-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeysinculture.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2160466&#038;post=424&#038;subd=journeysinculture&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas and Receptivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan K. Galloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During this Christmas season there are foreign born university students who are still on many university campuses. Most universities have closed their cafeteria doors and places to eat off campus are more limited due to being closed for Christmas day. Moreover, there are many others this day who are just alone not because they desire &#8230; <a href="http://journeysinculture.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/christmas-and-receptivity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeysinculture.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2160466&#038;post=422&#038;subd=journeysinculture&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYC EthneCity &#8211; New People&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan K. Galloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from conducting training at the EthneCity Conference in NYC. My part was on Urban Mapping and Exegeting a City. A major aspect of the training was sending participants out to encounter people different from themselves. NYC has major pockets for such encounters. The best way to exegete a city is to get out &#8230; <a href="http://journeysinculture.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/nyc-ethnecity-new-peoples/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeysinculture.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2160466&#038;post=418&#038;subd=journeysinculture&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pack Rats . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan K. Galloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I watched a show entitled Hoarders.  Each episode provides a “look inside the lives of two different people whose inability to part with their belongings is so out of control that they are on the verge of a personal crisis.”  In the episode I watched the people never threw anything away.  There &#8230; <a href="http://journeysinculture.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/pack-rats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeysinculture.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2160466&#038;post=243&#038;subd=journeysinculture&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whosoever . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan K. Galloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of the 2010 US Census have recently come to our attention.  Over the past 10 years there has been a sharp rise in foreign born populations migrating to the USA. Predominantly located in the larger urban areas, these new arrivals to the USA come for a variety of reasons.  Some come as refuges, &#8230; <a href="http://journeysinculture.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/whosoever/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeysinculture.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2160466&#038;post=235&#038;subd=journeysinculture&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Transformers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan K. Galloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about how culture often tricks us so that we assume our lifestyle values encompass the essence of the Christian faith.&#160; I concluded with Romans 12: 1-2 that states, I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice—living, sanctified, acceptable to God—your intelligent service; &#8230; <a href="http://journeysinculture.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/culture-transformers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeysinculture.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2160466&#038;post=234&#038;subd=journeysinculture&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tricked by Culture  . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan K. Galloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans believe that being direct is the most efficient way to communicate. The phrases “tell it like it is” and “speak your mind” — express such a value. Being direct is often valued over “beating around the bush.” As a result, Americans are often assertive, open and direct about their thoughts and feelings. Not all &#8230; <a href="http://journeysinculture.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/tricked-by-culture/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeysinculture.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2160466&#038;post=232&#038;subd=journeysinculture&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He Goes before Us . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan K. Galloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last January 15, 2010 I wrote about a trip to Ryukyuan and visiting a small island known as Ishigaki.&#160; While there, I discovered that the people celebrate a festival that is shrouded with myth and legend.&#160; Moreover, the myth and legend appears to be a redemptive analogy. Redemptive analogies are truths which God has embedded &#8230; <a href="http://journeysinculture.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/he-goes-before-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=journeysinculture.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2160466&#038;post=231&#038;subd=journeysinculture&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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